I have been wondering why a posting I did a year and half ago about sexual assaults in Korea was drawing so many hits recently from Korean message boards. This posting from the Metropolitician cleared up the reason why because the woman I profiled in the posting, Winter Raymond appeared on the KBS program "Beauties Chatterbox" and explained her horrible experience after being beaten and sexually assaulted to a nation wide Korean TV audience. The Marmot as well did a posting a few weeks ago on this as well.
I have been posting literally for years about sexual assaults against female US soldiers and foreign women in general in Korea, so it is good to see that she has been able to bring awareness to this issue straight to the Korean public. If a female American English teacher is treated in such away after being sexually assaulted how do you think the hospitals and authorities treat female 3D workers such as this Filipina national that was brutally raped by a Korean male?
The issue is not so much the fact that women are sexually assaulted because I understand every society has its bad apples that do horrible things and Korea is no different; the real issue is the treatment they receive afterwards at hospitals, by the Korean police, and the Korean court system. This is what is causing these people that suffer these crimes to become double victims after the original crime.
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3:42 am on November 29th, 2007 1
So the bad treatment after the rape is only against foreign women?
5:37 am on November 29th, 2007 2
I don’t know how a native Korean woman would be treated, though I suspect not very good if they report it at all.
However through multiple examples I have shown how foreign women have been treated by hospitals and Korean authorities which is clearly inappropriate.
8:28 am on November 29th, 2007 3
I wonder how those Christian tourists who got raped by the Taliban are being treated now…methinks they probably don’t report it….
12:44 pm on November 29th, 2007 4
My understanding from the Korean community that I have dealt with over 30 years,is that foreigners to begin with, are not Korean, and as such are looked down upon. Any crimes committed upon foreigners are the foreigners fault for being so stupid. Foreigners are stupid to begin with, and deservered what they got. Its the psychology of Korea. Now you may disagree, and say koreans are above that, (and I’m sure many are), but on the street its common knowledge.
1:05 am on November 30th, 2007 5
“though I suspect not very good if they report it at all.”
In other words, this becomes news in expat blogs only when the victim is a non Korean. Isn’t that the same complaint that you have against Korean press?
5:24 am on November 30th, 2007 6
Korean women are not sending me emails about how they have been treated by Korean authorities. If one does I would be happy to post it as well. If a Korean woman makes headlines in the paper because they got treated the way these foreign women have been treated I would post on it to, but I seen nothing in the Korean media.
3:00 pm on December 4th, 2007 7
6:50 am on July 10th, 2008 8
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