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TIL following a nighttime brawl in 2023 between rival gangs in which several suspects had full body Yakuza-style tattoos, South Korean prosecutors turned their attention to the tattoo artists they suspected of tattooing them, ultimately indicting 12 tattoo artists for providing tattoos illegally

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