SEOUL, July 24 (Korea Bizwire) — With growing public unrest following a recent fatal stabbing rampage that that killed one person and wounded three others in southwestern Seoul on Friday, consumers are showing increasing interest in purchasing self-defense gadgets.
According to Naver Shopping, the most popular search keyword among women aged 20 to 40 and men aged 20 to 50 on the day after the incident was ‘self-defense gadget’.
The same keyword ranked second among teenage males and third among females in their teens and 50s.
Related keywords such as ‘self-defense survival stick,’ ‘taser,’ and ‘taser gun’ were also highly searched terms.
Pepper spray secured the fourth position on the sales charts on Naver Shopping that day.
“This time, the crime targeted men, which may have come as a shock to the male population, with most men likely assuming that they would never be victims of such a crime,” said Kwak Keum-joo, a psychology professor at Seoul National University.
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