I could have told you Yangju County was a strange place. From the Chosun Ilbo (I’ll post the link tomorrow after the piece goes up on its Internet edition):
Man Hides Marriage and Loses Penis
An ethnic Korean from China was found bleeding heavily with his sexual organ severed in an empty space near a factory in Yangju County, Gyeonggi Province, police said Monday. Based on a statement by the victim, identified only by his surname Choi (33), his mother-in-law is suspected of committing the crime, and police are now looking for the woman, a 45 year old ethnic Chinese whose family name is Jang. According to Choi, Jang fled after cutting his penis off in anger upon learning that he had been married in China but hid the fact to marry her daughter in Korea. Immediately after being discovered, Choi was transferred to St. Mary’s Hospital in Uijeongbu for medical treatment and is now in stable condition.
And on that note, I start my trek back home.
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What happened with the, er, appendage? Any mention?
Aigo! Sosiji!!
Kevin
I should point out that the woman in question was a live-in partner, not a mother-in-law. There seems to have been a quite understandable translation error (compounded by a half-ass copy-editing job by yours truly) in which “????짧짢” was translated by the original translator as “mother-in-law,” which, in fact, it does mean, but not in this case, where is means “a certain Mr./Ms. Jang.” I’m surprised I didn’t pick that up right away — I thought it was rather odd for a mother-in-law to be only 45 years old.
Yo folks that appears to be almost exactly (I see no mention of any daughter) the same as a yonhap story before the Chosun followed up. I’m really wondering: if she made off with it, which is unclear, does she get double time for theft, too?
Since the angry lady’s Chinese, her name’s Zhang, then… Zhang Mo.
As for fearsome species, there’s the Vietnamese Mama, too:
http://www.ananova.com/news/st.....s.quirkies
A pregnant Vietnamese woman has been given a suspended jail sentence for cutting off her cheating husband’s penis with a pair of scissors.
http://asdf.org/~anna/clip/july2003.html
Vietnam’s Pham Thi Hanh was arrested after she poured a pot of boiling cooking oil over her sleeping daughter’s face. According to police, the 49-year-old Pham was angry that daughter Vo Thi Thu Tram, 22, had ignored her ever since she became a famous model and married a foreigner.
Kevin: booooo…
A furious Korean Ajumma is the most dangerous species on this planet. In this (our) galaxy only rivaled by the “Alien”.
Yes, the Yonhap piece tells that knife was used by unfortunate man’s live-in partner.
I am immediately reminded of Nagisha Oshima’s “Realm of the Senses” or whatever the title was in English. Ok, there was also this Bobbit guy in the US.
Something for Kim Ki-duk or Chang Seon-woo to filmatize.
And Fred Flintstone thought he had the mother-in-law from hell…
Dang!! Now I’m _really_ glad I told my whole story to my mum-in-law…
To sugar shin:
The ajumma in question isn’t Korean. She’s Han Chinese, hanjok, or as the Marmot wrote, “ethnic Chinese.”
Geek, you?쨈re right oranckay, I thought she was a Korean-Chinese ajumma… so I will have to change my post, it goes like this:
A furious Korean Ajumma and her sister-in-arms, the pissed off Chinese Ajumma are the most dangerous species on this planet. In this (our) galaxy only rivaled by the “Alien”.
Wow. That’s friggin scary. I’ll know to stay on the good side of any future mother-in-law.
After reading this Yonhap piece I can?쨈t get this song melody out of my head:
“The first cut is the deepest…” Sheryl Crow
At least (apparently) she didn’t throw it out of a moving car.
“There seems to have been a quite understandable translation error…in which “????짧짢” was translated by the original translator as “mother-in-law,” which, in fact, it does mean, but not in this case, where is means “a certain Mr./Ms. Jang.”"
How does one tell these two meanings apart?
I noticed the age difference too, but thought the woman might have had her daughter while still fairly young, with the daughter marrying early, with the husband a little older. A 33/23 couple is not such a stretch, particularly in non-urban Asia.
the text said ????짧짢(45??쨍?째????????.?짚???짯 ??흹?징짹)??씲? which can only be Mrs Zhang, 44ish (remember to substract 1 year to ages), Chinese.
To sugar shin..
When someone is talking of the power of ‘Ajumma’ in Korea, it is not so much negative.
‘Ajumma’ used to do something which she didn’t try in her girlhood because she loves her family too much.
Usually, she is ready to sacrifice herself for her family.
To widerock: My own mother is a typical ajumma and I?쨈ve tried to make some fun. I?쨈ve a huge respect for ajummas, it was not thought as an insult against ahjummas in general. Their toughness in everyday life and devotion to their families is admirable - in comparing competition to them, the Korean ajossis have no chance!
most westerners (who havent been to korea/china) have this notion that asian women are “too” gentle , polite, etc.. hah, ignorance is bliss..
What’s all this about furious alien adjummas?
Perhaps another cartoon is in order…
Kevin
i think thai women have the worst temper.