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Real Reality · Joined: 10 Jan 2003 Location: Seoul

Police: 24 people used the disabled as 'slaves'
The National Police Agency said yesterday that 24 people throughout South Korea used mentally disabled workers as "slaves" on isolated islands or in local villages for as long as decades.... a man in his 70s who had worked on a farm of his "owner" in Hwaseong, Gyeonggi province for 50 years without pay. The man ate from garbage cans on the street and lived in a dilapidated house.

"People have the wrong perception that it is OK to beat the disabled because they are retarded," said Kim Hee-sun, head of the human rights department....
by Lee Chul-jae and Kim Soe-jung, JoongAng Daily (August 4, 2006)
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/200608/03/200608032225078009900090409041.html

blaseblasphemener · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:12 am Post subject:

ex-squeeze-me?

Benicio · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:47 pm Post subject:

Hank Hill's Loatian neighbor has words of wisdom:

"Karma. You do something bad, come back and bite you in a$$!"- Khan Soopanoosemphon

flakfizer · Posted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:53 pm Post subject:

That's the worst news story I've read in a decade.

Captain Corea · Joined: 28 Feb 2005 Location: Seoul

I saw this on the news a few months back. They brought a camera into a workshop and some guy there was being treated like a dog. No freedom. Barely any food. Beaten.

Horrible.

animalbirdfish · Joined: 04 Feb 2004

Stomach-turning, that's for sure.

Countdown to the "Only in Korea" remarks...

JongnoGuru · Joined: 25 May 2004 Location: peeing on your doorstep

mindmetoo · Joined: 02 Feb 2004

I was on the subway the other day and there was this slightly retarded guy. He must have been getting a bit stressed because he started making some weird sounds. Like a yelping or something. This ajussi next to him started whapping him on the nose like a dog to get him to shut up.

Gwangjuboy · Joined: 08 Jul 2003 Location: England

Some blamed society's prejudice against the disabled. "People have the wrong perception that it is OK to beat the disabled because they are retarded," said Kim Hee-sun, head of the human rights department of the Research Institute of the Differently Abled Person's Rights in Korea.

I can't see this changing any time soon. Many Koreans don't even regard them as people. I can't recall a single occasion where I have even seen a mother/father in public with a disabled child. Just where do they go after school? Are they housebound?

charlieDD · Joined: 16 Jun 2006 Location: Seoul, Korea

I've often wondered: If the historical tables had been turned and the Koreans had been in the stronger position, perhaps colonizing Japan, would they have done the same things to the Japanese as the Japanese did to them?

This kind of report would make one think so. Not sure; still wondering.

laogaiguk · Joined: 06 Dec 2005 Location: somewhere in Korea

I wish I could find it, but I can't. There was a husband and wife couple in North America (I can't remember where) that kept tons of mentally challenged people as slaves. I read it about 2 weeks ago??? They were being charged for it.

The "what if" scenario about Korea conquering Japan is interesting.

Juregen · Joined: 30 May 2006