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Friday, June 12, 2009
Missing Gwangju elementary school student found shot to death after being hit by drunk driver.
Ugly news out of Gwangju is atop the most-read lists on the Chosun and Jeonnam Ilbo sties. The autopsy on the body of a fourth grader who went missing last week revealed that the cause of death was projectiles from an air gun. The article in the Chosun Ilbo says that the boy was hit by a drunk driver on the 4th, loaded into the car, and killed in Damyang. A 48-year-old Mr. Lee was arrested, confessed, and led the police to the body, which was in a valley in Damyang's Nam-myeon, Manwol-ri. He said in the YTN video report:
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This man should be executed slowly. Very, very slowly.
So the idiot hit a kid with his car, but that didn't kill the kid, so the idiot shot the kid with a bb gun until the kid died?
The Korean judicial system operates on Korean police getting confessions.
Usually I see the "I was so drunk I didn't know what I was doing" as a way of absolving oneself (somewhat) of a horrendous crime, but sometimes it sounds like a wrongly accused person who has been convinced by the police to confess.
Yeah, that kind of thing happens, and I have no doubt it occurs in Korea with a fair amount of regularity, which is a big reason why I oppose the death penalty.
It is terrible when anyone is killed by a senseless act but it is particularly troubling when it is a child who is the victim. This man who killed this child is a waste of sperm and ovum.
By the way, the death penalty should be around for the time we have the really worst of the worst: serial killers like Jeffrey Dahmer and terrorists who kill a lot of people. These people have forfeited their right to live by their own choices.
I oppose the death penalty because death by anal injection in a small prison cell over a 50 year period is far more inhumane.
(P.S.- look at Jeffrey Dalmer's death. It was a far worse way to die than by leathal injection).
nb wrote:
I oppose the death penalty because death by anal injection in a small prison cell over a 50 year period is far more inhumane.
Does this happen much in Korean prisons? Maybe Brother One Cell can start a blog and tell us.
Brother One Cell was pretty clear that Korean prisons are far safer in that respect. Towards the end of the book, contemplating a transfer to the US, he talks about the substantially lower brutality rate..
I'll just say two things right here:
(1) I do feel much safer in Korea, and do not feel like I have to look over my shoulder, or worry about my home being burglarized, or whatever . . . but glancing through Korean-language news from time to time I do see that there are suicides pretty often in Suncheon, and murders throughout Jeollanam-do on a regular basis, to say nothing of the brutality in schools. I do feel safe in Korea, but I wonder how much of that safety stems from not hearing about bad news in the English press.
(2) The level of violence in American prisons is a national embarrassment, and regardless of people's feelings about a particular crime or criminal, I don't like when people talk about a guy getting abused or killed in jail.
Besides the fact that non-Korean speakers are limited to eight pages of news every day, there is another factor that makes Korea seem safer than what it really is. Some murders may be classified as suicides or accidents to facilitate legal closure. Stephanie White has explained in detail how the police handle suspicious deaths: call it an accident/health problem and collect some money. Case closed.
A lot of public violence in the US is related to the drug trade, which is miniscule in Korea; hence, Korea has fewer shootings and murders. However, Korean crime statistics may underrepresent the risk of being a crime victim. North Americans should take the same precautions as they would in any major city back home.
I just posted an update on this case at TMH.
In the Times this evening:
http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2009/06/117_46889.html
What is it with Americans and 'burglarized'
Bloody burgled, burgled.
If you've been burglarized, then you've been turned into a burglar.
I submit that many minority members and citizens of the lower classes have indeed been burglarized by society. ;)
Sorry, Sam and kushibo. I'll be more careful in the future.
Anyway, from the Joongang Ilbo:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2906187
Brian wrote:
Sorry, Sam and kushibo. I'll be more careful in the future.
Then you'd be joining a society of, like, twelve members.
The word burglarized is so widely used it has essentially become standard.
I'm very late to this discussion, but this issue was brought home to me in my first winter here, when several Korean cuties were afraid to walk to the nearest subway stop near midnight. Obviously they knew the risks (as hyped by the local media), while I, as a foreigner, remained utterly foolhardy.
As indeed I am, as an American, in most countries of the world.
On the other hand, burglarized is normal U.S. usage; and y'all with a contrary opinion can get stuffed.
OT, but because Brian doesn't yet have open threads let me say here, congatulations Pens.
WeikuBoy, that's something I remember being brought up on a messageboard a little while back. While the Korean media was warning about some serial killer, or some predator targeting women---I don't remember if this was back in Hwaseong---the foreign teachers were oblivious because it wasn't being repeated in the English-language media. I'm not saying this was a nefarious plot or anything, nor am I denying that you can't expect special treatment if you don't speak the language, I'm just saying it was quite a surprise for these women when they finally did learn what was going on.
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