According to police, Park and his fellows beat a 17-year-old boy, also identified as Park, to death, during an exorcism on Feb. 13 2005 at his office in Damyang, South Jeolla Province.
They moved the victim's body to Jindo, also in south Jeolla Province, by car the next day and secretly buried it on a hillside and reported the boy missing to conceal their crime, the police said. They retrieved his corpse a month later and burned it and even tried to manipulate telephone records to create alibis, investigators said.
The victim had reportedly been staying at the exorcist's house for several weeks to cure mental illness.
I've never seen somebody burn a corpse. I wonder what it looks like.
Ah, got it. Here's another reenactment picture:
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Whoa. I have heard nothing about this down in Jindo! Not a blip. Crazy, and probably the only news to come out of Jindo in months!
is it because of shamanism or religion?
anyway both of which are crap.
I may be relying on a faulty memory and I can't find enough hard evidence on line to support this, but every now and then there have been cases in Korea, or involving Korean immigrants in other countries, where a child — typically a child considered wayward, wild, or mentally unstable — has been seriously harmed or killed in "exorcisms" designed to solve their waywardness, wildness, or mental instability.
In many of these cases, as I understand, the more out there that the kid is seen to be, the more aggressive the treatment. And naturally, then, the more resistant the child will become to the treatment, which usually serves to up the aggressiveness of the treatment.
It's no wonder, then, that this can result in death or injury.
And just so we're clear, arvinsign, me explaining it does not mean I'm excusing it. ;)
@ kushibo
Yeah i agree.
By the way, im just pointing out my repugnance of shamanism and religion (all sorts of beliefs in divinities and spirits). That is irregardless whether it happened here in Korea, or in my country or even in Hawaii,USA
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