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truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

I think this will prove the age of consent in Korea.

http://www.yesu.kimc.net/49sung-1.htm (Korean)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ages_of_consent_in_Asia
http://www.suite101.com/article.cfm/child_abuse_and_recovery/113006
http://psychology.wikia.com/wiki/Age_of_consent
http://www.ageofconsent.com/ageofconsent.htm
http://www.avert.org/aofconsent.htm

In addition, for people who disagree with me when I say it is wrong for minors to have sex with adults, you either support paeodophiles or you are one yourself. Also, look at this article from the BBC on age of consent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3699814.stm

Anyway, my point of this topic was not to point out what I already pointed out. I was trying to say if you say bad thangs directly about Korea it will be taken off.

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

First, in the US the states with age of consent at 14 have a three to four year rule. This means the partner shall be no more than three or four years age or the partner can be charged with statuatory rape. Second, the seoul police website forum was not even posted by the police, it was posted by a user like we are users. Furthermore, my fiancee is a supervisor at the Incheon Free Economic Zone (a government agency) and I believe she knows more about Korean laws and she says it clearly states 13 without age limitation, only limitations they put is if someone pays for it and tries to manipulate the girl into it.

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

It was posted in the foreigner room on the seoul police website....hmmm seems like it may be saying Korean adults can have sex with children.

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

The only people who call other people a troll are usually the ones who disagree with the person who started the post. In reality, the ones who are calling me a troll disagree that adults should not have sex with minors. So these people must feel it is OK for adults to have sex with minors.

Hanson · Joined: 20 Oct 2004

bassexpander · Joined: 13 Sep 2007 Location: Someplace you'd rather be.

What if your girlfriend is in her 20s, but acts like she is 13?

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

Hanson you point out one website that may not be up to date while there are many others that are. Hmmm..another person trying to make an excuse for the age of consent being so low.

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

Korean women tend to act like children because they feel it is cute. But in reality their mentality level according to psychology shows they are developed mentally. Read the article on BBC.

lastat06513 · Posted: Thu Mar 06, 2008 9:55 pm Post subject:

To me, my philosophy is "age is nothing but a number"......
However, there are some limits to that statement also.
When a person says that, there has to be a sense that the person you are dealing with has the sense to know what is right and what is wrong without the guidance of an adult- that is the key factor that distinguishes between a teenager and an adult.
The adult has the experience and knowledge to distinguish between what is right and wrong, especially when it comes to sexual contact.
The teenager is just entering the experience phase where they gain the knowledge to know what is right and wrong, and usually view sexual contact as a kind of experimentation.
The problem in this day and age is that alot of people are trying to lower the age of consent to justify doing something that is morally wrong in our hyper-industrial society.
Although it might be right in one place, we know such conduct is wrong by our standards of morally acceptable conduct.

I usually try to play the devil's advocate on many different issues, one issue I won't take sides on is pedophilia.
If you know it is wrong, the general course of action is not to do it- it is not good for the mental well-being of the person involved.
Also, these days a person's conduct in another country can be prosecutable in their homecountries, not to mention ruin their social and their professional life if the media got their hands on the story and god forbid, if the person is found to have worked in Korea- it will only be more fodder for their media cannon....no matter how old the individual person is, if the person is under the sociably acceptable age of consent (not the legal definition of it), then it will not only look bad upon the person perpetrating such acts, but for the rest of the foreign community.....

Keep that in mind.

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

I know some things we dont agree on lastat but I do believe in the socially acceptable thing but more governments are lowering the age though they don't look at the socially acceptable standards neither do they look at the psychological standards. They tend to go by a majority of perverts, some that are even representatives, who want the age lowered so it is legal to have sex with a minor.

billybrobby · Joined: 09 Dec 2004

Ah, the police board. Still good for a laugh

http://www.smpa.go.kr/smpa2007/bbs/board/viewMain.asp?code=for_eng&num=693&page=3&s=&c=&sort=&sk=&print=

Regarding the thread, truthfulchat's proof is simply insufficient. I don't regard any of the links he provided as authoritative. Show me an official government site or something.

TheUrbanMyth · Joined: 28 Jan 2003 Location: Retired

Yu_Bum_suk · Joined: 25 Dec 2004

truthfulchat · Joined: 30 Sep 2007

The Korean website from what I know is a government agency but you would have to know Hangul. Another source I use is my fiancee, she works for the Incheon Free Economic Zone, a government body that deals with foreigners. One issue they are dealing with is the sex trade market and many analysts are believing that it could be so high to the low age of consent at 13, they employed some reputable psychologists (Korean and Foreign) to the study.