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24 people used the disabled as "slaves" for decade

 
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Real Reality



Joined: 10 Jan 2003
Location: Seoul

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 7:43 am    Post subject: 24 people used the disabled as "slaves" for decade Reply with quote

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
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blaseblasphemener



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Location: There's a voice, keeps on calling me, down the road, that's where I'll always be

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 8:12 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

ex-squeeze-me?
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Benicio



Joined: 25 May 2006
Location: Down South- where it's hot & wet

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:47 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Hank Hill's Loatian neighbor has words of wisdom:

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



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 3:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:30 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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animalbirdfish



Joined: 04 Feb 2004

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:53 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Stomach-turning, that's for sure.


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



Joined: 25 May 2004
Location: peeing on your doorstep

PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 5:57 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

Captain Corea wrote:
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.


In even this sordid tale there's a faint, shimmering silver lining.

Post-unification cultural differences may not be as unbridgeable as once thought.

(Apologies to Dogbert, who used a similar line on another site, though more cleverly and tastefully than I have here.)


animalbirdfish wrote:
Countdown to the "Only in Korea" remarks...


I win!! I win!!!
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mindmetoo



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PostPosted: Thu Aug 03, 2006 9:07 pm    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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Gwangjuboy



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Location: England

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 3:40 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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?
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charlieDD



Joined: 16 Jun 2006
Location: Seoul, Korea

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:00 am    Post subject: Makes me wonder: if the historical tables had been turned . Reply with quote

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.
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laogaiguk



Joined: 06 Dec 2005
Location: somewhere in Korea

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 5:02 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

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.
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Juregen



Joined: 30 May 2006

PostPosted: Fri Aug 04, 2006 6:23 am    Post subject: Reply with quote

Gwangjuboy wrote:

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?


They are kept in the hospital.
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