They said American national Somali, whose real name is Ramsey Khalid Ismael, is not allowed to leave South Korea because of a travel ban linked to the case.

“He was indicted on Monday without detention for creating a commotion at a convenience store in October,” said a spokesman for the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors’ Office on Tuesday.

A convenience store employee reported Somali to the police on October 17 when he confronted a worker after being told not to drink alcohol inside the store.

He is also accused of making sexist remarks towards the worker.

Somali has dominated headlines in the country for a series of stunts, including kissing and twerking by a statue memorialising Korean victims of wartime sexual slavery – euphemistically called “comfort women” – by the Japanese military during World War II.