Teen caught spinning large knife on commuter train

A teenage boy found holding a large kitchen knife aboard a Gyeongui-Jungang Line train was taken into custody by police.

A 112 emergency call came in around 5:10 p.m. Thursday reporting that a male student was holding a bladed weapon inside a train near Goksan Station on the Gyeongui-Jungang Line.

The caller said the student was spinning a kitchen knife roughly 20 centimeters long in his hand. Officers who responded detained the student and brought him in for questioning.

During the police investigation, the student said he had bought the knife to cut plastic for a club activity and had been holding it in his hand because he was worried it would tear his pocket. He told investigators he had no intention of threatening anyone.

Police have released the student to his guardians and are reviewing whether to formally charge him.