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Don?t mess with Hak Kyu Kim

A former South Korean soldier and martial arts expert foiled thievesÂ? plans in his New Sudbury convenience store. Hak Kyu Kim used a shovel to disarm a man trying to rob the store on Churchill Avenue Sunday evening.
A former South Korean soldier and martial arts expert foiled thievesÂ? plans in his New Sudbury convenience store.

Hak Kyu Kim used a shovel to disarm a man trying to rob the store on Churchill Avenue Sunday evening.

Kim, 39, said he didnÂ?t hesitate when he realized the male customer had a knife in his possession and was wearing a mask.

Kim grabbed the shovel and approached the man who was pointing the knife at his wife and demanding money.

Kim smashed the shovel over the manÂ?s head.

Police were already investigating a report of another robbery at a gas bar on The Kingsway. The man in that robbery attempt matched the same description as the man inside KimÂ?s store.

Police went immediately to KimÂ?s store and arrested a suspect, who needed 11 stitches to close a
wound.

Last March, four men, one armed with a loaded sawed-off shotgun, tried to rob KimÂ?s store.

He broke a mop handle he was using over one manÂ?s head and the other three men took off.

The man holding the shotgun was given a six-year penitentiary term. He had been released days earlier from a long sentence for another armed robbery.

Kim moved to Canada from South Korea in 1994. He had served in the military over there and is an expert in martial arts.