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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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Rk94 TIL a radio station offered six figures to anyone that would get a tattoo of the station’s logo onto their forehead. A man and his stepson did so and upon requesting the money they were told they “weren’t entitled to anything.”