By It is good to see this dirtbag that was hiding out in Korea put behind bars:
David Nam’s long-running effort to escape trial for a 1996 killing during a botched Olney home invasion came to a close yesterday with a jury verdict that would put him in prison for the rest of his life.
Nam, 32, apparently led a law-abiding life after he forfeited $1 million bail and fled to South Korea in 1998. He married, had three children, and worked as an English teacher at a private school near Seoul.
But that life ended at 3:20 p.m. yesterday, when a Common Pleas Court jury of eight women and four men found him guilty of second-degree murder in the Aug. 16, 1996, killing of Anthony Schroeder, 77, a retired Acme Markets warehouse worker.
Nam, a thin, 6-foot-1 man wearing a black suit and horn-rim glasses, seemed to show no emotion as the jury announced the verdict.
Nor did his sister – his only relative living in the United States – who attended the trial yesterday for the first time. She left court afterward without speaking or giving her name. [Philly.com via reader tip]
Read the rest, but the guy is going to get a life sentence without parole. Nam did more than just kill man during a botch robbery. This guy also cost his family $100,000 in bail money and were forced to renounce their US citizenship and return to South Korea. He now also leaves a wife and three kids in South Korea fatherless due to his actions. It is a bit surprising how easily this guy was able to hide in plain site in South Korea while wanted for murder. Fortunately the FBI finally caught up with him and convinced the ROK government to extradite him back to the US.
1:43 am on February 16th, 2010 1
That's a MILLION in bail money, not $100,000. I feel sorry for the wife, if she didn't know about his past, and his kids but not his family, who enabled his escape.
1:44 am on February 16th, 2010 2
By family, I meant the parents and sister.
1:48 am on February 16th, 2010 3
I just read the full story. I see the bail agency is out $900,000.
2:33 am on February 16th, 2010 4
Don't ask me how/why I know – but you only pay 10% of the bail – the bail bondsman pays the rest. And if you don't show – the bail bondsman is out the cash – and he's on the lookout for you. If you ever go to the bail bondsman's office, there are wanted posters plastered all over the place of people who skipped bail. Of course, the police are looking for them because they didn't appear in court. The bondsman wants his damn money and often puts a lot more into the search. And that's why there are people like Dog the Bounty Hunter in this world – finding people who skipped out on bail. Of course, Dog gets to keep a chunk of that bail money as his reward for getting the bail bondsman back his 90%.
9:47 am on February 16th, 2010 5
Why didn't the AES jump on the Bandwagon over this English teacher murderer? I'd like to hear a Koreans excuse.
In the end, I think we all know why!
9:59 am on February 16th, 2010 6
An owner of a hagwon once told me that Korean men who teach at hagwons "all have something wrong with them."
But this is a big thing to have hidden. Maybe Korean teachers need to do background checks to get teaching jobs?
11:03 am on February 16th, 2010 7
I wonder if he was a good teacher?
I worked with a guy who skipped out on about 100k worth of student loans for his law degree in the states.
Got to hate those taking advantage of the system when the rest of us struggle to make ends meet.
glad to hear buddy got hauled in and justice was served.
11:56 am on February 16th, 2010 8
Why would the judge even give him bail when he was an obvious flight risk?
8:30 pm on February 16th, 2010 9
Funny how the netizens never post on threads like these. Funny how the apologists never post on threads like these. Funny how the apologists who happen to have blogs never post these stories on their blogs. Funny, isn't it?
1:55 pm on February 19th, 2010 10
I'm one of the few foreign English teachers who actually supports background checks and physicals for all teachers, foreign and Korean. This entire story PROVES that there should be background checks and, hey, why not physicals, for Korean teachers, too. That inclues Kyopos. A teacher has access to children and no one should have that access without first passing a background check.
Now, why many apologists refuse to even acknowledge this story is a mystery to everyone else. Maybe because it means that they have to acknowledge the need for background checks of Korean teachers. That's ridiculous. Put the children first and require background checks for ALL teachers in Korea. No more classes taught by convicted murders!
2:07 pm on February 19th, 2010 11
I pretty much agree with what you say here, ArchieB. There should be thorough background checks for people working with children whether foreign (including kyopo) or Korean. To what extent Korean teachers do get checked, it should be standardized and and made consistent with what foreign teachers get.
David Nam should be a wake-up call that teachers on F-series visas should not be immune to background checks.
5:12 pm on February 19th, 2010 12
I'm not a big fan of too many criminals hanging around but there is a much more pressing and easily screened undesirable group of teachers…
…not even including Canadians.
WTF is up with all the medicated teachers?
It seems almost every teacher I know, or know of, is on some kind of antidepressant… or brags about their ADHD diagnosis and the pills they take to treat it… or, after drinking, talks about the time they spent in treatment.
Sheesh… they are all screwed up and, instead of hiding it and dealing with it to keep it hidden so it doesn't affect their lives, they brag about it and then use it as a crutch to blame poor performance on something other than their laziness, poor planning or give-a-funk attitude.
Hogwon owners are recognizing this and they have asked me what's up with it… as it DOES affect job performance.
"Man, I'm tryin' to get up and be to work on time but these meds are really fucckin' with me."
Uh-huh, assshole… but you seem to have energy to go out to the bar after work every night.
"Yeah, but, the meds won't let me sleep at night. That's why I need sleeping pills."
And WTF is up with all the sleeping pill gobblers that have invaded the teaching market?
Anyway, when the hogwon owners ask me what's up, I just hang my tongue out slightly, turn my thumbs so that they are no longer opposable with wrists at right angles and say in my best retard voice, "I don't take any medication and I'm a normal American."
…but, I really don't have a good answer except to say when when I screwed around, didn't pay attention or disrupted class, I got the beatdown until I developed the mental discipline to get off my asss and do what needed to be done. That wasn't easy… and still isn't… but it CAN be done.
Now-a-days, it seems everyone is special, nobody is wrong, every action is correct and every response is equal… and nobody is a lazy undisciplined worthless slug of shiit… the poor dears just have a chemical imbalance that can easily be corrected…
…so something over 30% of college students are taking meds to solve the same problems that generations of students before them became stronger by overcoming without any meds.
And since Korea gets, on the average, the bottom of the barrel college graduates to fill teaching jobs, the medicated slugs wind up here.
And the same permanent laziness that fuels their medication needs shows up in their job performance and lifestyle.
I say lose them.
Yep.
I bet I wouldn't be such an assshole if my chemical imbalance was medicated with a daily dose of heroin… and I bet I'd be a lot more fun if prescribed an 8 ball of coke and 2 blond whoores every evening.
Yeah, baby… I need to get me some meds, too.
1:23 pm on July 27th, 2011 13
David Nams family knew what they were doing. The Father sold a house they were renting to his brother in law so he could send David back to South Korea. I have no sympathy for the family, they were complicit with his escape.