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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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 Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 1:00 am Post subject: "Danger Country": Violent Crimes Against Women |
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Rash of Violent Crimes Leaves Korean Women Frightened
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Many Korea women are anxious these days after a series of murders, rapes and other crimes targeting women made headlines recently. Last August, two female office workers were abducted and murdered by illegal taxi drivers near Hongik University in Seoul, and in September a police officer raped two women in a subway parking lot late at night, stealing some W19 million (US$1=W917) in cash and valuables.
Earlier this month, a man in his 30s was arrested for raping nine women who were returning home at night in Seongbuk district in northern Seoul. Women now are increasingly afraid to catch a cab at night or even to go out.
With the surging growth of women in the Korean work force, economic participation by females has reached 54.8 percent. However public security measures to protect women at night remain neglected. According to the National Police Agency, more than a third of all violent crimes including murder, robbery, and rape occur between midnight and four a.m.
Korea is classified a "danger country" in terms of women's public safety by the 30-member OECD. According to the OECD's Social and Welfare Statistics for 2007, the homicide rate for Korean women is 1.7 per every 100,000 people, the third highest after the U.S. (2.7) and Iceland (2.2). |
Chosun Ilbo (October 23, 2007)
http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200710/200710230011.html
Suspect in 82 Rapes Nabbed in Eastern Seoul
by Kim Bang-hyeon, JoongAng Daily (January 20, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2674971
Suspect Held in 50 Rapes, Robberies in Metro Area
by Chung Kang-hyun and Kim Soe-jung, JoongAng Daily (July 20, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2754281
Sex Crime Reports Soar, But Leniency Still Rules
by Ser Myo-ja, JoongAng Daily (September 17, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2814614
Major Crimes on Rise Nationwide
Korea Times (September 24, 2007)
http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/nation_view.asp?newsIdx=10780&categoryCode=117 |
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BRawk
Joined: 14 Oct 2007
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 3:51 am Post subject: |
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| Wow! That's horrible. |
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GoldMember
Joined: 24 Oct 2006
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:24 am Post subject: |
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Courts that don't punish, especially if the defendant is in a wheelchair.
Police that don't have any balls.
A future recipe for disaster. |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 4:26 am Post subject: |
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| sad, but unsurprising |
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jaganath69
Joined: 17 Jul 2003
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| Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 5:01 am Post subject: |
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| Welcome to Byeontaestan. |
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Real Reality
Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:57 am Post subject: |
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Mods,
Which post about the "Danger Country" was first? |
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peppermint
Joined: 13 May 2003
Location: traversing the minefields of caddishness.
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:01 am Post subject: |
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| Am I having deja vu, or did you post that exact same post about 6 hours ago? |
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pkang0202
Joined: 09 Mar 2007
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 3:53 am Post subject: |
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Big deal. 1.7 women out of 100,0000.
All figures below are for U.S. residents.
Cause of Death Lifetime Odds
Heart Disease
1-in-5
Cancer
1-in-7
Stroke
1-in-23
Accidental Injury
1-in-36
Motor Vehicle Accident*
1-in-100
Intentional Self-harm (suicide)
1-in-121
Falling Down
1-in-246
Assault by Firearm
1-in-325
Fire or Smoke
1-in-1,116
Natural Forces (heat, cold, storms, quakes, etc.)
1-in-3,357
Electrocution*
1-in-5,000
Drowning
1-in-8,942
Air Travel Accident*
1-in-20,000
Flood* (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-30,000
Legal Execution
1-in-58,618
Tornado* (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-60,000
Lightning Strike (included also in Natural Forces above)
1-in-83,930
Snake, Bee or other Venomous Bite or Sting*
1-in-100,000
So, after all those things don't kill a woman, they will die from an attack in Korea. Holy moly, this is a travesty. Calling everyone in the world. KOREA IS NOT SAFE FOR WOMEN!  |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 4:44 am Post subject: |
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Real Reality:
I didn't know about your thread on this topic before starting my own. I'm usually more careful than that.
This article has some additional information.
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=102802
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``The most important thing for a woman's safe return home at night is ensuring the safety of public transportation, especially taxis, at night,'' experts said. ``Some contract taxi drivers perpetrate such crime by using their taxis.''
Contract taxi drivers refer to people who are neither registered with taxi companies nor have a license to own their own taxis. They temporarily operate taxis after paying a certain amount of money _ around 100,000 won per day _ to taxi companies or self-employed taxi drivers.
Police say there are more than 5,000 taxis run by contract drivers in Seoul.
``Many contract drivers have criminal records or a poor financial transaction history,'' Park Yong-hoon, president of the Coalition for Transportation Culture told The Korea Times. ``Despite a series of government-led efforts to outlaw this, the undesirable practice persists because it financially satisfies both taxi companies and contractors.''
The transportation expert called on the government to revise concerned regulations to legitimately punish such taxi companies, as well as contract drivers. ``Along with improved regulations, the government should have more manpower to crack down on the rampant practice,'' he said. |
Maybe a crackdown on contract taxi drivers is in order. After all, foreign English teachers are being asked to jump through all the same hoops that they already jumped through six months ago. |
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Julius
Joined: 27 Jul 2006
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| Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 5:08 am Post subject: |
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| It takes 82 rapes before they nab the guy? Do they overlook the first 50 as an acceptable norm? |
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