My Newsvine article: http://orchard.newsvine.com/_n.....d-to-korea

What on earth does this actually mean? He already crashed?

“Investigators say he never saw the parked car with its lights out. ”

So the motorcyclist hit a parked car - where is this drunk driver, then?

Can somebody please explain what the fuck the journalist was actually saying?

I don’t know what the exact statutory penalties in Calif would be, but the behavior is indictable under several crimes, including accessory after the fact to felony murder, manslaughter, negligent homicide and/or reckless endangerment; aiding and abetting a fugitive; and conspiracy. Nearly all of these are straightup felonies, although reckless endangerment and conspiracy could also be pitched as more or less serious misdemeanors. What us actually charged will depend on what the prosecutors think they’ll be able to prove on the basis of the available evidence The Hyundai executive who got this knucklehead onto the plane is probably being advised by the same [Korean-American?] attorney to get to the airport himself now. Whether Hyundai itself is indictable depends on whether the executive can be said to have been acting within the scope of his employment. If he used company resources to get this guy outta Dodge, that would put paid to any detour and frolic sort of defense to the agency liability theory.

Kushibo:

I think you know me well enough from my comments on other topics Korean that I also am not inclined to give Hyundai any significant credit until this guy is in custody in the States.

Of course, THE right thing would have been for the company to have made this guy stand up back when. On the other hand, what happened then seemed to have been done by one executive. That of course doesn’t exonerate the company, because the executive appears to have been acting within the scope of his employment and not off on a detour and frolic, as they say. Still Hyundai deserves some credit as a company now, as everything having become known to the institution, the institution now seems to be acting responsibly and taking appropriate corrective action.

Whether it acting responsibly is still an “if”, the large dimensions of which I probably didn’t emphasize clearly enough. It’s all based on H’s self-serving claim that it is cooperating.

That is, though BTW what I thought was significant about this story. It’s the only one I’ve seen that indicates - and it is only an indication - that the authorities now know exactly who this knucklehead is, and that Hyundai has told them. As someone who has spent time professionally from time to time trying to track down Koreans who abscond to Korea from elsewhere after committing crimes, I can tell you that means a lot. Even if Hyundai never does anything more, if they’ve clearly identified this guy, he’ll eventually get extradited (unless of course the local keystone kops let him slip away, which is more than possible). I think that covers the “finding”/”identifying” issue.

Dogbert:

I think the US would turn over Chung in a heartbeat, unless he makes it to his plant in Alabama. Then Shrub might have to call out the National Guard.

Hyundai needs to really come forward and do the right thing, what they should have done months ago.

Is that Korea’s “Most Wanted List”? There are swindlers on the list, so what not hit-and-run manslaughter suspects?

The UPI report is short on details, but it appears that Hyundai is doing the right thing and have fingered the guy. At least, they’re claiming to be ccoperating. Let’s see if the cooperation extends to bringing the perp back to California through a little “persuasion” and saving the Calif taxpayers the expense of an extradition proceeding and sparing the family the justice denied of justice delayed.