The American live streamer was denied entry for “disturbing”

SEOUL, South Korea. South Korean authorities on Wednesday charged an American TV host known for his offensive stunts abroad with causing a “disturbance” at a convenience store, prosecutors said.

Ramsey Khalid Ismael, better known by his online moniker Johnny Somalia, is a 24-year-old live broadcaster who spews provocative and offensive language while traveling abroad, including US allies South Korea and Japan.

An official from the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office told NBC News on Wednesday that Somali will stand trial and is also barred from leaving the country.

However, he has not been detained, the press secretary said.

South Korea often imposes travel bans when there is a risk of flight.

The Somali, whose broadcasts often involve desecrating monuments and harassing local residents, has been repeatedly banned from various social media platforms and currently broadcasts on Rumble, a live-streaming platform with a looser moderation policy than twitchanother popular live streaming platform.

Videos Somali posted on Instagram last month show him drinking alcohol in a shop where he spills instant noodles on a table before cleaning them up.

The video is no longer available on his YouTube channel.

Somali also sparked outrage in South Korea for his behavior near Seoul’s statue of Peace, also known as the Comfort Woman statue, which commemorates the tens of thousands of Korean women who were forced into sexual slavery by Japanese forces during World War II.

The video, which is still available on the Rumble platform, shows Somali kissing the statue, printing out a photo of himself kissing it, and then showing the photo to passersby in Seoul.

He later apologized, Agence France-Presse reported, saying he was unaware of the statue’s significance.

Yonhap news agency reported that Somalis were repeatedly beaten while in South Korea, including once by another live viewer.

The foreign antics of Somalia and many other “unsavory influencers” have often been condemned by both the authorities and local residents.

In Japan, they are known for tricking ticket inspectors on trains, disrupting shops and harassing passengers on the subway.

Last year, Japanese authorities arrested Somalis for trespassing on a construction site, Kyodo News reported reported. He also mocked Japanese passengers over the US atomic bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki at the end of World War II.

Stella Kim reports from Seoul, South Korea, and Mithil Aggarwal from Hong Kong.