By Via Gusts of Popular Feelings comes one of the most depraved murders I have ever heard of happening in Korea:
A 17-year-old mentally disabled girl was killed after being beaten almost daily over 21 days by four teens who lived with her, police said yesterday. Seongnam police requested an arrest warrant for the four teenagers on suspicion of assault and homicide yesterday.
They allegedly tied the victim, identified only as Yoo, to a chair for two to three hours and dropped a knife with the blade facing down or poked her with needles under the guise of giving her a tattoo. They also confessed to whipping her with a jump rope.
Wednesday night, Yoo was beaten for “cheating with another man.” She lost consciousness after being burned with metal spoons and chopsticks that were heated up in a microwave oven. The four teens left Yoo and told her not to play sick. They found her dead Thursday.
Once Yoo’s friends, the four suspects put rope around her corpse and wrapped it in a bed sheet. They buried her at a nearby mountain 1.7 kilometers away from the scene of her murder.
Make sure to read the rest of the story because there is even more depraved details to this story. What I just cannot believe is that her dad allowed these thugs to abduct her from him after she returned home to Pyeongtaek. Just an incredibly twisted and sad story.
11:05 am on March 30th, 2009 1
That is horrible. It reminds me of this case in Japan which happened 20years ago.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Junko_Furuta
That case was traumatic for the Japanese society at that time, and you can sometimes feel it even now.
I hope that it is not the same in Korea.
7:02 am on March 31st, 2009 2
The "torture with heated spoons and chopsticks" thing has happened in other cases involving girl students. I suspect it happens on a much smaller scale in many unreported cases.
9:38 am on March 31st, 2009 3
This story reminds me of the time I saw a woman hanging from a tree near Yonjugol in 1968. I was in the US Army we were in a convoy driving to our field location. She wasn’t more than 50 feet from the road, and my commander told me to just keep driving. I’ve thought about that often over the years and wonder what she could have done to deserve that.
9:52 am on March 31st, 2009 4
@John:
Hanging somebody from a tree is obviously a premeditated murder not a crime of passion or violence gotten out of control. I'd guess she was suspected of infidelity and murdered by the husband while the village looked the other way. Korea is not known for honor killings, but given that adultery is a punishable crime in modern Korea, it is probable that in pre-modern times, women especially were punished either by a court or by their families for extramarital sex. Elizabeth Kim's claim that her mother was hanged for having a child by a US soldier was met with doubt by many who insisted honor killings didn't exist in Korea. I don't think they were as commonplace as in the Middle East, but there probably were women killed by their families for violations of sexual mores.
5:50 pm on March 31st, 2009 5
Ohh my lord… I want to throw up after reading that. Those are some very very sick people … who could do that to another human being.
Such lack of consideration for human life …..
6:52 am on July 6th, 2009 6
i want one frined in north korea