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crescent
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 Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:56 pm Post subject: Murder of Foreign Wife gets Korean a "heavy" 12 ye |
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By Park Si-soo
Staff Reporter
A court sentenced a Korean man who killed his young Vietnamese wife with a relatively heavy punishment.
The Daejeon High Court Thursday sentenced the Korean identified as Jang to a 12-year prison term for murdering his 19-year-old Vietnamese bride last June.
The 47-year-old Korean first met his wife through a Korean matchmaking company in December in 2006 and married her in May last year.
Marriages with foreign nationals are prevalent in the rural areas of South Korea.
The Vietnamese woman, who suffered abuse at the hands of her husband and was impeded by a language barrier, decided to leave for her hometown on July 26, 2007, after one month of married life in Korea. But her intoxicated husband beat her to death.
In the ruling, the court said ``We saw the tragedy in which an older Korean male selected his wife in a matter of minutes then treated her like an imported product.''
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2008/03/117_20693.html
So 12 years is 'relatively heavy'?
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spliff
Joined: 19 Jan 2004
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| Posted: Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:59 pm Post subject: |
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| She wasn't Korean people. |
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Typhoon
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Location: Daejeon
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:03 am Post subject: |
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Sure it is. A Korean murdered a non-Korean. Usually there is no sentence put in place. 12 years is a huge sentence in this case. The life of someone from Vietnam is not worth the same as a Korean life.  If you read Korean check out the Daejeon Ilbo next clemency period. I bet you he gets pardoned. 12 years for a cold-blooded murder what a joke. Oh wait he was drunk so that is a mitigating factor. |
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RACETRAITOR
Joined: 24 Oct 2005
Location: Seoul, South Korea
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:05 am Post subject: |
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| Before you go accusing Korea of racism, I've heard equally and more frightening cases of Korean husbands killing their Korean wives and walking away with far less of a sentence. |
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MissSeoul
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| 12 years is not enough, they should put him on electric chair. |
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Thiuda
Joined: 14 Mar 2006
Location: Religion ist f�r Sklaven geschaffen, f�r Wesen ohne Geist.
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:10 am Post subject: |
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| A life sentence in Germany is only 15 years, 12 years would be considered long sentence. |
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Whistleblower
Joined: 03 Feb 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:12 am Post subject: |
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| He probably blamed the Kimchi his wife made. |
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billybrobby
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 12:40 am Post subject: |
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Well, lets look at the average time served for murders in the US and the UK, which, of course, are the gold standard for all important policy decisions.
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According to latest available figures (1994 in the United States, 1995 in England) time served, on average, was --
longer for murder in the United States (10� years) than in England (8 � years) (figure 55) |
These are pretty stale figures, but there you have it. Of course, there are tons of issues related to it, because time served and time sentenced are different, and I'm not sure what types of murder are included. But it's not a whole lot of time.
This case, however is pretty extreme. Personally, I find the idea of beating a woman so badly that she dies from her injuries is so antithetical to all that is good and decent in the human soul that anybody who is capable of doing it should be put away for life. Yes, folks, I'm going out on a limb, taking that controversial position, and saying that you shouldn't beat women to death. |
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xingyiman
Joined: 12 Jan 2006
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 1:59 am Post subject: |
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| Notice also that this guy is CONVICTED and they still wont release his full name. Gee, every piece of vital information the Koreans can get is splashed across the page when a western teacher is arrested under suspicion of something. |
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itaewonguy
Joined: 25 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:46 am Post subject: |
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hendrick-hamel.
This nation treats their women as no more than female slaves |
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The Hammer
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STOP HUMAN TRAFFICKING
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chronicpride
Joined: 16 Jan 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 2:55 am Post subject: |
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| xingyiman wrote: |
| Notice also that this guy is CONVICTED and they still wont release his full name. Gee, every piece of vital information the Koreans can get is splashed across the page when a western teacher is arrested under suspicion of something. |
If they won't release his name, then they should at least reveal his blood type, so Koreans can endeavor to confirm any associated stereotype that certain temperaments are defined by blood type. ie., if your blood is A type, you are prone to anger and murder, etc...I think stereotyping according to blood type is far more of a critical concern at this point, than knowing his name. Much more harder to say 'all people with the last name of Choi are prone to murder'. |
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ulsanchris
Joined: 19 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 4:20 am Post subject: |
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| The policy of not reporting peoples names in papers is because the Korean constitution protects a person's right to a reputation. To westerners this seems rather bizarre but i guess this in line with the whole saving face thing. At least i think i remember reading this somewhere. |
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Typhoon
Joined: 29 May 2007
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 5:10 am Post subject: |
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| So then why is it ok to print the full names of foreigners in the newspapers when they are just accused of doing something? |
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babtangee
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| Posted: Fri Mar 14, 2008 6:13 am Post subject: |
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| Typhoon wrote: |
| So then why is it ok to print the full names of foreigners in the newspapers when they are just accused of doing something? |
The Korean constitution don't cover us chumps. |
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