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TheUrbanMyth
Joined: 28 Jan 2003
Location: Retired
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TUM, Korea hasn't had a real feminist movement yet, and even though the President is a woman, Korea is still very much a man's world. I wasn't talking about under-reporting of rape, so i chose to ignore it. My original point is that sexism is very much alive and well in Korea because of their Confucian values.
Also, perhaps you should take this up with Professor Yoo at Sookmyung, who "noted that the overall atmosphere of society fosters such behavior and sex offenders try to take advantage of it.".
It seems like you know better than her. |
Appeal to authority is a fallacy. Just because a professor says something does that mean she or he is automatically right? If not why would you even say something like that?
And I didn't deny anything that she said...I questioned the claim that Confucianism was the main cause in non-reporting of rapes.
Just because a newspaper or a professor says something doesn't make it so. Proof is required as in my statement which I supported with sourced info from the AMA. |
No offence, but I would rather take the word of a Korean academic on the subject of Korean culture than you. Honestly, why don't you engage her in a discussion and report back to us, if you are so sure of yourself? |
Well I would rather take the word of the American Medical Association over a Korean academic. We'll just have to agree to disagree on this. |
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jvalmer
Joined: 06 Jun 2003
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 8:05 pm Post subject: |
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| Just look at the way girls address their boyfriends here. My wife's friends were surprised that she doesn't call me 'Oppa' and were even more surprised to find out that I told her not to. |
Uh, you do realize it goes both ways. If the boyfriend is younger he calls the girl 'Nuna'. Also, girls only call guys they like (or related to) 'Oppa', otherwise they will use another term to address the guy. |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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newb
Joined: 27 Aug 2012
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 9:42 pm Post subject: |
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http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2013/05/116_135705.html
Apparently the Korean government wants this to disappear one way or the other as quickly as possible.
I say, give him the OJ Simpson/Bill Clinton treatment^^
Make it long and meaningful. |
I like it. Another media circus.  |
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atwood
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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| Posted: Tue May 14, 2013 9:54 pm Post subject: |
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The big difference is they do it to their own citizens in their respective countries, but they don't go around and spread their culture in other countries to foreign nationals and DO A MIDNIGHT RUN. |
Ahem! Does the name Dominique Strauss-Kahn ring a bell? |
Charges against him were dropped, so while he was overseas, etc. he didn't do a midnight run. And he settled out of court with the maid.
But since the Korean government is asking to U.S. to expedite filing charges, etc., I'd bet they will cooperate and if necessary would extradite him. |
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uklathemock
Joined: 26 Dec 2009
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"A Seoul district court on Wednesday sentenced TV personality Go Young-wook to five years behind bars for having sex with (raping) minors."
If rape and molestation = 5 years, I think copping a feel barely even registers as breaking the law....
http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/04/11/2013041101276.html
Oh wait, a National Assemblyman did do it: "The incident happened when the party moved on to a karaoke room at the same restaurant at around 10:10 p.m. after Park and the daily�s editor had left. Choi reportedly hugged the reporter, who was sitting next to him, from behind and fondled her breast. The reporter jumped up and protested before leaving the room. The other reporters complained to Choi, who was quoted as saying, �I�m sorry. I thought she was the owner� of the restaurant." lmao! |
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maximmm
Joined: 01 Feb 2008
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