South Korea ? Police questioned one of South Korea’s richest men Sunday following media reports that he and his bodyguards abducted and beat eight people after his son was hurt in a scuffle with bar employees.

Kim Seung-youn, chairman and CEO of the Hanwha Group, South Korea’s ninth-largest business conglomerate, and his bodyguards allegedly seized the men last month and took them to a mountainous area south of Seoul where they were threatened and beaten, the Chosun Ilbo newspaper reported Saturday, quoting unnamed victims and witnesses.

Kim and the bodyguards were armed with steel pipes and shock devices, the paper said.

Kim, 55, and his son, Kim Dong-won, later assaulted another man at gunpoint in a bar in central Seoul, the paper said.

That man was allegedly one of several off-duty bar employees who were involved in the scuffle with 22-year-old Kim Dong-won in southern Seoul on March 8. The son required 11 stitches after the altercation.