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Restaurant named after Xi Jinping attacked by Chinese nationals in South Korea
The owner said he chose the name because he wanted to run the "best Chinese restaurant" in South Korea.
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Surveillance footage show a group of masked men spraying lacquer across the restaurant in South Korea's Seongnam
A restaurant in South Korea named after Chinese leader Xi Jinping has been vandalised by a group of Chinese nationals who fled home right after the attack, police say.
Surveillance footage from the restaurant in Seongnam, a city south of Seoul, shows four masked men storming the premises in the early hours of 24 September, smashing furniture and spraying lacquer.
"People claiming to run businesses in China proposed large sums if we changed the name," he told The Chosun Daily. "They were persistent."