Comments on: 17 Year Old Disabled Girl Tortured & Murdered By Friends

By: Solomon

Solomon — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:52:54 +0000

i want one frined in north korea

By: theotherguy

theotherguy — Wed, 01 Apr 2009 00:50:24 +0000

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 …..

By: Sonagi

Sonagi — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 16:52:18 +0000

@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.

By: John C

John C — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 15:38:25 +0000

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.

By: Korea Beat

Korea Beat — Tue, 31 Mar 2009 14:02:27 +0000

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.

By: tomojiro

tomojiro — Mon, 30 Mar 2009 18:05:57 +0000

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.