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KumaraKitty · Joined: 09 Jan 2006 Location: Bucheon

Had anyone else read about this?
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200701/200701020020.html

gsxr750r · Joined: 29 Jan 2007

Korea is not Canada. Or America. Or anyplace else. Men are still more important than women here.

cdninkorea · Joined: 27 Jan 2006 Location: Seoul

kotakji · Joined: 23 Oct 2006

Well my opinion is that the Korean legal system is set up to maintain stability not to maintain justice. Thus as long as the problem is contained within the household, it is out of the jurisdiction of the police (by custom- I'm sure there are plenty of applicable laws- they simply aren't enforced as long as theres no spillover from the disturbance into the rest of society). From what I've seen judicial decisions revolve around maintaining the status quo rather then actually dispensing justice. (Although the two are not always mutually exclusive goals.)

rednblack · Joined: 12 Jun 2006 Location: In a quiet place

Kotakji.
I'm pretty much agree. The police are basically useless with regards to domestic disputes. Only once in 7 years have I seen the police take away someone who assaulted their wife. He smashed a glass in her face because she dared to argue with him. I did intervene, with no repercussions from the police...and yes I did hurt him rather badly. The other 10 or is it 20 times, the police talked to an offender, they told the couples to sort it out , and for the man to not hit the woman (joke). My wife, who is korean, told me this is the norm in Korea, but Korean women also do bait K. men for a reaction. A sort of "Ill give you shit, you hit me, and every thing will be all right" Obviously, things are changing, atleast with those who have money.

kat2 · Joined: 25 Oct 2005 Location: Busan, South Korea

Its the same ideas that they have about child abuse. Its a family affair, not a public one. It should be handled by the family.

So many things are illegal here that aren't enforced for one reason or another. For example, a few years ago, they made prostiution illegal. Now anyone who has lived here for more than a week, knows its easier to find a prostitute than it is to find good cheese.

jmbran11 · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: U.S.

Women are not necessarily protected better in the U.S. Why do we have separate domestic violence statutes instead of just assault statutes? Because, the law goes easier on you if it's your wife or child you hurt.

Many, many women in other industrialized countries are brutalized and nothing happens until several complaints have been filed.

And, just for the record, the article mentions that he was "abusive" several times before she married him. So, I have to ask, what kind of treatement did she expect following the vows?

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

Now the sister-in-law of the abused actress is saying that she physically assualted her. I don't think the problem is so much with the law as with people's mindsets. Koreans are just not very good at handling problems in ways that don't involve either deference or force.

Furthermore, men from English speaking countries tend to hate wife-abusers and child-abusers with a passion. If it happens we'd love nothing better than to see the scoundral publically displayed, humiliated, and ostracised. With most Korean men, however, it seems there's nothing they'd want to talk about less.

ED209 · Joined: 17 Oct 2006

RACETRAITOR · Joined: 24 Oct 2005 Location: Seoul, South Korea

I heard an even more brutal story but haven't seen any English articles about it. All I know is what my wife told me.

A guy was abusing his wife and ended up sending her to the hospital. No worries, agree everyone. So the wife goes home, terrified for her life. One time her husband goes into one of his rages, and she locks herself in the room. He tries to bust down the door Shining-style, and she climbs out the window. This leads to her falling to her death. The husband was not punished in the least.

I keep saying, this country needs vigilante justice.

Zoidberg · Posted: Sun Feb 11, 2007 9:27 pm Post subject:

Doogie · Joined: 19 Jan 2006 Location: Hwaseong City

Smee · Joined: 24 Dec 2004 Location: Jeollanam-do

Folks here aren't as jumpy with regards to domestic violence (to say the least). Obviously it would be better for everyone if this issue were taken more seriously. However, I don't think we need to be as reactionary as folks are back home: arresting him without evidence is a bit excessive.

Barking Mad Lord Snapcase · Joined: 04 Nov 2003