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http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200710/200710230011.html

[Atavistic]

ICELAND? That's surprising.

[pkang0202]

Does that mean the US and Iceland are danger countries as well?

I think wearing a woman wearing a mini skirt in Iran or Syria will get them stone to death.

[Optimus Prime]

They are already making the shift to call taxis. Saw it on Arirang. By 2008, 90% of the cabs will be call-taxis only.

NOT good news for foreigners and tourists, unless they speak Korean.

[cj1976]

Statistics can be deceiving, some of the Arab countries might well have a high incidence of unreported crimes against females. However, when I showed the article to a Korean co-worker, she just responded 'Korea is a safe country, blah blah...' - as if I was simply talking *beep* to badmouth Korea. Amazing...

[IncognitoHFX]

[Scotticus]

[genezorm]

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[aquagirl]

Korea has moved up the rankings from the 5th highest murder rate for females in the OECD in 2005 to the 3rd highest. It makes me mad when Korean people say "oh Korea is so safe, you can go anywhere at any time of the day or night and be totally ok". This is simply not true! Part of the problem is that the police appear to be disinterested in prosecuting assaults on females so these perpetrators move onto bigger crimes such as murder.
In my own personal experience, I've been laughed at when I went to a police station to report an attack at a subway station and a creepy man who was following me to work on a daily basis. The police didn't take me seriously and told me that I should wear a hat and sunglasses, "be less attractive" and take a taxi everywhere - great advice!
See the article below from 2005

The two safest OECD countries for females are Greece and Ireland

Yoon Ja-young:


Korea has the 5th highest number of murdered females among 28 member states of the OECD (Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development).

According to a recent report by Joint OECD/Korea Regional Center on Health Social Policy, 1.5 out of every 100,000 Korean females were murdered in 2005.

Korea follows the United States, Hungary, Finland and Luxemburg.

U.S. topped the list with the highest rate of 3.2 per 100,000 females, followed by 1.8 in Hungary, 1.7 in Finland and 1.6 in Luxemburg.

The average female murder rate of OECD member countries stood at 1 for every 100,000 women.

The two safest countries for females on the other end of the list were Greece and Ireland, where only 0.3 out of 100,000 females were murdered.

The comparison shows that Korean women are five times more likely to be murdered than females in Greece or Ireland.

Japan, Italy and Spain were also among the safe places, with 0.4 females murdered out of 100,000 women, and the United Kingdom followed with 0.5.

"There have been around 1,000 murder cases every year in Korea on average, with the figure not changing much. Recently, however, there have been a notable number of serial killings of women among murder cases," said Kwak Dae-gyung, criminology professor at Dongguk University.

Korea�s average murder victimization rate for men was 1.7 per 100,000 males, which is lower than the OECD average at 2. The United States topped the list with 11 per 100,000 men murdered.

Unlike other countries where women were far less likely to be murdered than men, Korean women were as much exposed to danger as Korean men.

Kwak said oftentimes both perpetrators and victims are likely to be men in capital crimes, pointing out that Korea is an unusual case since men and women are almost equal in terms of the victimization ratio.

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[pkang0202]

1.7 per 100,000 people?

That is only 17 people per 1,000,000. Sounds like making a mountain out of a molehill to me.

It would be great if that number were zero, but 17 out of 1,000,000. Come on now. More people die from Fan Death.

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[Real Reality]

Troll_Bait,
"Beat you to it."
Post subject: Women's Public Safety in OECD: Korea a "Danger Country'
Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 2:02 am


"Danger Country": Violent Crimes Against Women
http://forums.eslcafe.com/korea/viewtopic.php?t=102719

Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 9:00 am