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Police and the Internet community are hunting for a man who allegedly assaulted a woman at Zen Bar in Hongdae early Saturday morning.

CCTV footage of the event clearly shows a woman identified as Stephanie Calderon being put in a headlock and forced to the ground.

Stephanie said she was the victim of sexual assaults all night with guys passing by and touching her backside.

“I didn’t want to have any problems so I just moved every time that happened,” she said. “At the end one guy not only grabbed my butt but also pushed his pelvis against mine three times.”

At this point, the CCTV footage shows that Stephanie pushes the unidentified man away from her with her hands outstretched.

“I couldn’t contain myself and pushed him. He then came at me, grabbed my hair and wrestled me to the floor where he smashed my face into the ground.”

The video shows Stephanie being forced to the ground and out of the frame of the video footage.

“When on the floor he punched me for about 10 seconds. My next memory, when I stood up, was him on the stairs being taken away by the security guys. Meanwhile, I have blood on my shirt, almost a broken finger,” Stephanie said.

After posting about this event on Facebook Stephanie has been given overwhelming support.

She was questioning whether to go to the Police in fear of being charged for pushing the man.

Like many expats Stephanie presumed that Police would charge her with assaulting a Korean even in self-defence.

On Saturday Stephanie called the “foreigner police” 120.

“They gave me another number, nothing! The last ones gave me another number, still nothing was done.”

After this, Stephanie went to the police station with Heejung Lim who saw her post on Facebook and offered to help translate.

“She helped me to translate everything. We went with the police to the bar and got the CCTV footage. They were incredibly nice.”

Lim said that the police informed her there has been an increase in crimes involving foreigners around Hongdae recently.

“Many times, businesses let them go without reporting it to the police. Often, chances of getting these people get significantly lower, because foreigners and businesses do not report immediately,” Lim said.

Stephanie posted this CCTV footage to Facebook, which is circulating among expat groups in a bid to find the perpetrator.

The owner of Zen Bar said he instructed his employees to ask customers whether they can identify the perpetrator.

If you recognise the man in the CCTV footage please contact The Korea Observer.