"Second South Korea taxi driver in ride-sharing protest suicide
SEOUL: A South Korean taxi driver burned himself to death in protest against a ride-sharing service being introduced by the country's largest mobile chat app, the second to do so in a month.
The 64-year-old, surnamed Im, parked near the US embassy in central Seoul moments before his vehicle was engulfed in flames.
The driver remained conscious after he got out of the burning vehicle on Wednesday (Jan 10) evening, witnesses said, and was taken to a nearby hospital but died hours later, according to police, who found melted fuel bottles in the car.
Im left a suicide note, Yonhap news agency reported, calling for a ban on what he called "illegal car-pooling".
He is the second cab driver in a month to have burned himself to death in protest at a ride-sharing service created by chat app Kakao.
Ride-sharing firms have cut transport costs and increased services for passengers around the world, but are conspicuous by their absence in South Korea, where US giant Uber has only a minimal presence."
RIP to him n the 1st can taxi who committed suicide to protest the can hailing app deployment.
Such extreme measures r totally incomprehensible by folks in Sgp.
It is wholly irrational as they cannot see the result of their protest assuming the gov outlawed Uber since they would be very dead!!
Maybe some will say they will b remembered for being the trigger that tip the scale of pushing the gov to vote for the taxi folks.
I just observed in awe n accept this cultural difference!!
SEOUL: A South Korean taxi driver burned himself to death in protest against a ride-sharing service being introduced by the country's largest mobile chat app, the second to do so in a month.
The 64-year-old, surnamed Im, parked near the US embassy in central Seoul moments before his vehicle was engulfed in flames.
The driver remained conscious after he got out of the burning vehicle on Wednesday (Jan 10) evening, witnesses said, and was taken to a nearby hospital but died hours later, according to police, who found melted fuel bottles in the car.
Im left a suicide note, Yonhap news agency reported, calling for a ban on what he called "illegal car-pooling".
He is the second cab driver in a month to have burned himself to death in protest at a ride-sharing service created by chat app Kakao.
Ride-sharing firms have cut transport costs and increased services for passengers around the world, but are conspicuous by their absence in South Korea, where US giant Uber has only a minimal presence."
RIP to him n the 1st can taxi who committed suicide to protest the can hailing app deployment.
Such extreme measures r totally incomprehensible by folks in Sgp.
It is wholly irrational as they cannot see the result of their protest assuming the gov outlawed Uber since they would be very dead!!
Maybe some will say they will b remembered for being the trigger that tip the scale of pushing the gov to vote for the taxi folks.
I just observed in awe n accept this cultural difference!!
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