Foreign eye-witness, whistleblower interviewed.

Korea Beat has the translation of an interview done by Ohmynews with the woman who exposed an abusive daycare center in Itaewon. Read the whole thing, but here are a couple of excerpts (Ohmynews lines in bold):

First, please expain in detail precisely what you saw in December.

“At the time I was making coffee for my mother. My mother was lying down in the bedroom and I was in the living room, and then my mother heard the horrible sound of a child screaming and called me in. Both of us saw it. There was a little boy shivering and screaming.”

In Korean I asked him, ‘are you alright?’ and was going to give him some candy to calm him down. He was scared and was facing the door with his head down. We were really worried because it was so cold that morning. Judging from his height the boy appeared to be two years old.”

And near the end:

If you look at Dave’s ESL Cafe there are some foreigners involved in child sexual abuse and drug crimes and so on so the Korean media doesn’t like it, but you hope that this will cause the media to change for the better.

“Yes. I hope that the Korean media will change its negative views of foreign men living in Korea after this incident.”

“There have been negative portrayals of foreigners as being involved in child abuse, so it is ironic that a foreigner made the media report about this case of child abuse. If I had been a man that would have destroyed the bias against foreign men.”