Korean Job Discussion Forums

[diver]

Good point Ilsanman. They are not all guilty. The American (and Canadian) press will dig up a photo anyway (especially an unflattering one...Nick Nolte, Yasmin Bleeth, Glen Campbel). The Korean press seem more restrained in this regard.

The other problem I have with the press back home is that they splash the arrest of someone across the front page, but much later (sometimes years later in Canada) the news of the acquittal is printed in the bottom corner of page 28. I think they should be required to devote an equal amount of column inches to the result of the trial as they did to the arrest...and it should be on the same number page (or lower) as the story of the arrest. I know it is impossible to measure, but it doesn't seem fair to splash "John Doe Arrested For Child Molestation" on the front page...then a year later, in the back of the paper "John Doe was acquitted today". Just a pet peeve of mine...

[Gwangjuboy]

[diver]

Speaking of class...

People like you are the reason that the rest of us value class as such a decent personal quality.

Have a nice day.

[Gwangjuboy]

[Medic]

At least the OP prompted some discussion about a topic with a lot of ramifications, so it couldn't have been all that stupid.

The Koreans are debating wether to publish more information about their sex offenders. A list is published every 6 months I think, and the offenders who are promenent politicians or buisnessmen always manage to get their names removed from the list irregardless of the severity of their offense. Kind of stinks. Power and money can buy anything in Korea it seems.

I also find it kind of strange that they would debate why a Korean paedophile should or should not have his details made public. I think they are actually leaning to-wards not publishing more information about these low life predators. That's something about Korean culture that's right off the deep end in my book.

[tsgarp]

How do you know people with influence are getting removed from the list? I heard of a couple of people suing based on the constitutionality of the list but I haven't heard of anyone getting taken off by bribing, threatening, or otherwise using their position of influence. Do you have proof this is happening?

[kangnamdragon]

Why should someone accused, yet not convicted, be forced to be on television?

[On the other hand]

[Medic]

I've also wondered why people accused of something, but not proven guilty should have to appear on television. Seems as though every Tom, Dick or Harry no matter what the crime has his or hidden profile on TV. Maybe the TV channels could spare us the unnecessary details, and just describe the offense. Would give more time to more interesting programes

Tsgarp. I heard the hazy details about the guys having their names taken off the list from some of the secretaries who work with the legal profession. People in Korea don't have much faith in the legal system. Especially since several prosecutors not so long ago were charged with corruption, and removed from their positions. I also read that those who had their names removed from the list did so on the basis that it violated their human (constitutional) rights. I'm wondering though why couldn't all of the other offenders have had their names removed for the same reason. An article in the Koren Herald just after the first list was published actually had the nerve to say that all the other offenders whose names were published did not want to contest the issue. Talk about crap.

[HardyandTiny]

why are cameras allowed in to the police station to the point where they can videotape people at the questioning desk?
I would also hide my face in that situation.

[Len8]

The point made in an earlier post about publishing more details about child offenders wouldn't hold in Korea. It took a long time before they would do anything about this sort of thing in the U.S., so it's going to take a lot longer in Korea.

In the U.S. missing children or children abused never recieved the police support that they should have. More attention was given to a stolen car than to an abused or missing child. A car ment money so a stolen car recieved more attention, than a case involving a child. Most children's cases used to get shoved on miscellaneous stacks, and forgotten.

I seem to remember that things only improved, and that more action is now being taken , because of the crusading of one couple for their lost child. I can't remember their name, but they showed the ineptitude of most local police, and the overall lack of concern by the government, and the FBI. They even managed to have a centralized organization in Washington established with government funding for lost and abused children.

It might take something like this to happen in Korea, before adequate protection (such as more details of the offenders being made public) is really given to young children.

I have just completed an English camp where I taught elementry students. I had to teach a class for one hour every day wherein the students had to read something and then answer questions on what they read. One of the questions was about bad habits, and they had to think of different bad habits that people might have. Most mentioned smoking, others mentioned drugs, but the shocker to me was there mentioning in Korean the name for child molesters. I asked them if they had to take extra care because of these types of people, and they said yes, and that they had to go the police if they were ever confronted by such a person. In my elementry school days these kinds of people were never mentioned. They were non people. Nowdays because there is this kind of problem children are learning about them at a much younger age. Goodbye to innocence.

[jajdude]

Sorry, gotta point it out..... "irregardless" is not a word.

[SuperHero]

[Dan]

In terms of Asia, I think the public WANTS to see criminals cover their faces. It relays that they are ashamed of what they did, and thus everything is right in the world.

This is of course completely ridiculous and naive. But this usually only deals with petty criminals. The really big ones that used millions of dollars to build their kids houses or whatever or scammed a bank out of all their money never hide their face.

Corruption is just so insane in Korea, but I always think of it as growing pains of a relatively young social structure.

[Gwangjuboy]

I can't believe this stupid topic is still occupying a place on page 1.