/ Screen capture from YouTube



By Kim Rahn

Video footage of a man smashing up a Mercedes Benz sedan with a golf club went viral on the Internet over the weekend.

The man said his actions were to protest the dealership's lukewarm attitude toward fixing malfunctions.

On the footage, the man begins hitting the 290 million won sedan with a baseball bat in front of the dealership office in Gwangju on Friday afternoon. After the bat breaks, he then wields a golf club to continue destroying the vehicle.

The man, surnamed Yu, 33, began leasing the vehicle in March.







He told local media that the engine of the car suddenly stopped running three times.

After this occurred twice, he claimed that the dealership promised that it would exchange the car with a new one if the same thing happened again. But the engine stalled again earlier this month, with Yu and his family in the vehicle, almost causing an accident.

Yu demanded an exchange, but workers at the dealership said they could not guarantee this until their boss returned from a business trip. After about two hours of scuffling, Yu destroyed the car.

Workers at the dealership said they were embarrassed because the incident happened while they were considering an exchange or other compensation.