South Korea slaps Johnny Somali with travel ban over US live-streamer’s ‘commotion’ case
A convenience store worker reported Johnny Somali, real name Ramsey Khalid Ismael, to the police last month
They said American national Somali, whose real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael, is not allowed to leave South Korea because of a travel ban linked to the case.
“He was indicted on Monday without detention for creating a commotion at a convenience store in October,” said a spokesman for the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday.
A convenience store employee reported Somali to the police on October 17 when he confronted a worker after being told not to drink alcohol inside the store.
He is also accused of making sexist remarks towards the worker.
Somali has dominated headlines in the country for a series of stunts, including kissing and twerking by a statue memorialising Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery – euphemistically called “comfort women” – by the Japanese military during World War II.
