By The Chosun has the latest on the Ansan murder investigation:
Parts of a dismembered human body were found in a toilet in Ansan subway station on Line 4 around 4:30pm Wednesday. The partial remains, which consist of a woman’s trunk and two arms, were found packed in a suitcase by a subway worker identified as Chae.
Police revealed CCTV footage that shows a man in his 30s throwing the suitcase into the toilet for the disabled. Chae first saw the man around 3:30 p.m. Wednesday as he was carrying the suitcase which was dripping blood. Chae and another worker Yun blocked the man from boarding the train.
No where in the article does it say the police is looking for a foreign suspect but for some reason the Chosun felt like slipping this in at the end of the article:
The area near the subway station, Wonkok-dong, Ansan, Gyeonggi Province, has a large community of illegal foreign workers from China, Russia and Southeast Asia.
Is the Chosun implying a foreigner committed the crime? If not why slip this passage in at the end of the article? Anyway no matter who it is, this is one disturbed individual and hopefully the police capture him quickly.
3:54 am on January 29th, 2007 1
The man was seen in person by subway workers, and his image was captured on CCTV. Apparently, he didn't look foreign, or that fact surely would have made the press. Looks like it's just another slippery attempt to associate foreigners with crime. Maybe the torso and arms belong to a foreign woman hacked to death by a deranged Korean man. Without the head, the nationality would be uncertain.
7:08 am on January 29th, 2007 2
If it were a Chinese immigrant, he might not have been viewed by the witnesses as a non-Korean —- the East Asians tend to have similar features and are often hard to tell apart (by other East Asians, I mean…), and the quote specifically references the Chinese in the area.
Still — a prejudice is exposed here since there is nothing pointing to a foreigner doing it is the fact foreigners live in the area.
If the place is like China Town in NY or SF, that would be one thing. But, unless the percentage of foreigners is so high, it greatly exceeds the Koreans in the area (or who travel in and out of the area), it is another thing…
8:33 am on January 29th, 2007 3
I saw the picture of the guy in the Chosun and you can't tell what Asian nationality he is yet the Chosun throws in that paragraph at the end implying it is a foreigner. Maybe every time a crime is committed in a Korean neighborhood the Chosun should note there is a high concentration of Korean people in the neighborhood.
1:02 pm on January 29th, 2007 4
One article I read said witnesses (I believe at the stores where he purchased the bags) claimed the suspect spoke Korean, but not fluently. Thus the suspicion that he is Chinese or Chinese-Korean.
10:00 pm on September 24th, 2007 5
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