Sunchang Police said that the 26-year-old woman, whose name was not disclosed, cut the penis of her 52-year-old husband, Yang, who was sleeping after drinking, at 7:50 p.m.
The husband was transferred to a hospital and had his organ sutured, with the wound not deemed life-threatening.
Their family members and neighbors testified that the couple often quarreled since their marriage in October 2007. Some of them also said that the wife suspected Yang of having an affair.
Korean-language article from Yonhap here.
In spite of the efforts South Korea has made to be accommodating to the young foreign women it imports to repopulate its rural areas, news of unhappiness and violence aren't uncommon. It will be interesting to read the reaction to this, taking into account the increased awareness of these unhappy marriages within what's still considered a restrictive patriarchal society. In the US, at least, this sort of sexual violence against men is treated much more glibly and humorously than, say, comparable revenge against an unfaithful wife would be.
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You wouldn't be able to turn on a talk show without hearing something about Sunchang gochujang, for example.
That ought to stop the guy from being so cocky.
"International Marriage" is a bit of doublethink, isn't it?
Just say "Mail-order Bride."
I married a Canadian woman who I met without a paid intermediary. *That's* an "International Marriage."
So why hasn't that woman been apprehended , and her breasts and genitals severed off in public like they do to men ?
This is discrimination - treat women as equals !
Yes, that's a good point, Greg.
Here's a case, this time in the US, of a judge letting women get away with sexual abuse against a man based on his infidelity . . . sexual assault in general isn't taken very seriously, but especially in cases against men (and those committed by women)
http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20100202/US.Cheater.Assaulted/
And listening to the Seoul Podcast, linked beneath the comments, I don't think there'd be a series of jokes if a Cambodian woman got raped with a bottle for cheating on her husband, or had her nipples gouged out, etc. Just making a needed-to-make point.
True, Brian. But they're the same jokes people made when Bobbit got his penis cut off by his wife. And the whole Darwin Award is predicated on the idea there are some deaths that are risible.
One might note that Bobbit went on to make at least one porn movie. I don't know of any woman that would make a porn movie after being brutally raped.
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