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Implosion
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 Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 6:53 am Post subject: Koreans in Sham Pro-Cambodian Beating "Protest" |
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From the Korean Beat Website:
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Last month in Daegu a very young Cambodian woman was arrested for attempted murder after stabbing her abusive husband. Today Yonhap News reports that local civic and women�s organizations are calling for� well, it�s not clear exactly what they want, but we also learn that the young woman is pregnant.
�Cambodian people will think a person is rude for touching their heads. We do not know if that was the reason that 18-year old Mrs. Choun (pseudonym) stabbed her husband after marrying him from Cambodia.�
On the 6th, two days ahead of International Women�s Day, at the 2.28 Democracy Movement Commemoration Foundation in Daegu. It was here that a demonstration called for proper handling of the case of a Cambodian woman who stabbed her husband in their home in Daegu in January after he hit her.
50 members of local civic organizations, including ones dedicated to immigrant brides, attended. One of them was Mrs. Kolbuokkheng, who also came from Cambodia.
She said, �Mrs. Choun was desperate as a result of her husband�s beating her head. Like other Cambodian people who believe patience is important, Mrs. Choun did not reveal her problems, which was simply violence.�
Mrs. Kolbuokkheng added, �in Cambodia a person without a father is not looked on kindly. Mrs. Choun, who grew up being mocked for being fatherless, wanted to be a good mother to the child in her belly. It is my hope that with the help of Korean people Mrs. Choun can be forgiven.�
Ludi Bay, a Filipina who married a Korean man five years, also spoke sympathetically.
First she spoke movingly in remembrance of a Vietnamese woman who jumped from her apartment building to commit suicide last year as a way to escape her husband�s beatings. Sometimes there are victims, sometimes there are victimizers, but she effectively conveyed how frightened married immigrants in an alien culture can be. She said, �Korea is a frightening place for married immigrants because they have nowhere to turn for support,� concluding, �this 18-year old and pregnant Cambodian woman is my friend, and I ask people to learn about and support her.�
The Korean civic organizations emphasized that our society is responsible when marriage immigrants find themselves the victims of terrible crimes rather than the happy married lives in Korea they expected.
Kang Hye-suk, a member of the Daegu Married Immigrants Rights Center (대구이주여성인권센터) said, �we have to find out if our society can see this 18-year old girl as blameless.�
A coalition of 34 Daegu-area organizations has come together on the 6th to support Mrs. Choun. Over 20 participants carried white signs with messages in their native languages, and attracted the attention of tens of passing citizens in the chilly weather.
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Gee, nothing like protesters "guessing" that all her husband did was 'touch her head'....
I mean this is worse than just being some random Korean bigotry. This is actively going out to a "show of suport" protest that gets written up as "errrr...we don't know what this is...but" and then the one person that is quoted supposes the pregnant Cambodian 18 year-old is the person with a possibly "cultural adjustment problem."
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jkelly80
Joined: 13 Jun 2007
Location: you boys like mexico?
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:05 am Post subject: |
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| I've never seen a country so in love with its own culture. |
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ryoga013
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 7:19 am Post subject: |
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| jkelly80 wrote: |
| I've never seen a country so in love with its own culture. |
I never hope to see one again  |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:04 pm Post subject: |
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One can only imagine the utter misery of a woman who comes from an intricate and intimate culture like Cambodia, marries a likely rather ignorant and bigoted Korean man* she doesn't know and gets holed up in an apartment in Daegu. Jesus Christ, the utter despair.
The article posted by the op is classically smug, though it does make reference to the Vietnamese woman who was beaten by her husband, and does point towards some action to defend these women. It's actually indicating some social progress from when i lived in korea.
*one can assume Koreans who need to marry overseas are not exactly top of the kim chi food chain |
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samcheokguy
Joined: 02 Nov 2008
Location: Samcheok G-do
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:06 pm Post subject: |
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IT"S NOT CULTURAL TO HIT YOUR WIFE IN THE HEAD.
The whole not touching people on the head in SE asia is relative anyway...I've seen people snogging in doorways, and they were touching EVERYTHING. |
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Butterfly
Joined: 02 Mar 2003
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:09 pm Post subject: |
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| samcheokguy wrote: |
| IT"S NOT CULTURAL TO HIT YOUR WIFE IN THE HEAD. |
Huh? |
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antoniothegreat
Joined: 28 Aug 2005
Location: Yangpyeong
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| Posted: Thu Mar 12, 2009 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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i think what the article SHOULD say is
"in camobodia it is not okay to rape and beat your wife, so she had trouble adjusting to superior korean culture." |
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