Police in Gwangju have arrested eight teenage girls, including a 16-year-old high school dropout named Yun, for luring a 16-year-old friend of theirs to a one-room apartment, imprisoning her and forcing her to prostitute herself, reports the Kukmin Ilbo.
According to police, the group — apparently friends at school — called seven men they met through online chatting to the apartment and pimped out their imprisoned friend for 50,000-100,000 a trick.
They kept her locked up for about 10 days, performing group beatings on her when she refused to have sex. Runaways, they apparently resorted to this when they ran out of money for living expenses.
The victim managed to escape after her captors got drunk and fell asleep.
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Damn you expats for airing our dirty laundry like this.
Wow, Mizar5, I didn’t know the Kukmin Ilbo was an expat paper.
This little event is deja vu all over again.
underage pussy is a fetish for old, ugly men all over the world.
USA today ran one 2 years ago, stating how New York city business men were taking direct flights to Atlanta, for some underage, white pussy, from girls who were basically runaways from all over the deep South.
The men were supposedly giddy about being served by underage virgins and low possibility of AIDS.
chances are, some dude with AIDS and Herpes also made the trip to Atlanta and the community hole spread AIDS around that route.
community holes are unfortunately the women.
if homos and switch hitters stopped fucking women, there is a real possiblity that AIDS would be contained within the male to male sex population. Obviously it’s not.
the casualties are the women.
A lot of them, women who do prostitution.
Again, I don’t take gays seriously. The fuck women here and there, too.
High profile ones?
Senator from Idaho.
Governor from New Jersey.
challenge me, prove me wrong.
I dare you.
I didn’t know that Junior Achievement activities like this were part of the approved business model.
wjk – I have homosexual friends. Many of them had sex with women, while married, Christian, in the 80s, and trying to get “cured.” The word you’re looking for is BISEXUAL. Bi-men are bad. Bi-women are awesome.
bipolar, I personally encountered some who revealed they considered themselves homo, never married, enjoyed the male sex more, but from time to time, did women too.
there is this effort to say you’re either straight gay, bi, or straight hetero.
ask your gay friends again. They don’t really like being pegged as strictly gay, whatever that means to them.
in short, they are HIV spreaders, some doing so with intention. Ignored, hidden, acted as if non-existant for the sake of political correctness.
#7 – “Personally encountered?”
Ewwwwww.
It is brilliant how wjk deftly manages to eventually turn a thread like this into a discussion of his religion, his penis, and/or his latent homosexuality.
Complete change of subject: ROK Drop is down. I see a page stating “Hacked!”
With friends like those…
I love when these little bubbles of truth reach the surface in Korean media. I am sure this kind of thing is hardly isolated.
Last year there was a sex scandle in Daegu involving over 20 middle school and elementary school kids, forced sex and abuse. That hardly made the news at all.
The Korean media manipulation rivals that of the USA.
Wonder Girls gone bad?
They would have liked to have more than doubled their earnings by catering to the foreign community but thought that it would be against their morals.
The use of “Do Tricks” in the headline of this post further demeans the girl and belittles the seriousness of what happened. That would not have been so bad, however, if it hadn’t led to the truly juvenile postings that followed.
“Wondergirls gone bad?”
“Junior achievement activities”
“underage pussy is a fetish for old men all over the world.”
Even the most serious post, IMHO, #12, started off by gleefuly telling us that s/he loves when this kind of truth comes out. I don’t really want to get all PC but didn’t you mean to say something like…”This is terrible. On the bright side, at least this came to light. Maybe people will see there’s problem..”
Where the hell is the outrage about what happened to the poor girl? Why isn’t there more serious discussion about this situation? Reading through these posts, I could almost hear the snickering would bet that at least one of you guys wished you were a fly on the wall in the apartment.
There is nothing humorous about this situation. At all.
“They would have liked to have more than doubled their earnings by catering to the foreign community but thought that it would be against their morals.”
What the fuck is that? Would you guys say these things offline?
“If homos and switch hitters stopped fucking women, there is a real possiblity that AIDS would be contained within the male to male sex population.”
“Homos and switch hitters”? Gays are responsible for the spread of AIDS?
That’s incredibly offensive.
mjw, respectfully, your righteous indignation is misplaced. Why would you expect people to feel “outraged” about this?
People feel outrage when people abuse positions of authority or do something nefarious and go unpunished. Here are some examples of things that provoke outrage:
- Bush ignoring the tragedy in New Orleans
- govt. goons attacking squatters
- the media manufacturing lies about American beef
- Chinese milk formula killing infants.
There is nothing in this story to provoke outrage. The police moved in and did their job. And poster #12 hardly shows “glee” at the predicament of the young girl. Rather, it is a comment about the state of the media.
As far as humor is concerned, this is precisely the kind of offbeat but not really tragic story that spawns jokes. It has always been thus, and will always will be thus.
That said, there is sometimes a difference in the way Koreans and Westerners react to such story. Koreans tend to say things like “andakupsumnida” (something akin to “I really feel for that person) while Westerners note that it is an offbeat story and look for the dark humor in it.
However, I have noticed that when a tragedy involves non-Koreans, Koreans can see the humor immediately.
When the 2 schoolgirls were killed by a U.S. Army vehicle a few years back due to equipment failure, there was a spoof video circulating about 9-11 that spread like wildfire through Samsung employee email. It depicted Bin Laden trying in vain to direct the planes AWAY from the World Trade Center although the pilots were unable to hear him due to headphone failure.
People snickered about that one for days, and this was truly offensive in that it made light of an unspeakable tragedy while also implying that the schoolgirls were deliberately targeted by U.S. soldiers.
So, yes, I would joke about this offbeat but not really tragic story.
But I would not joke about the Kwangju massacre or the girl who was held captive in an underground bunker for her entire lifetime.
Do you see the difference?
mjw: You are of course right. I hope that some of the early posters and subsequent bandwagon-jumpers feel chagrined at what they said.
Also, luckily most people don’t express such vile thoughts in real life, but feel the extra cojones that anonymity provides them here.
Though, I suspect that if one really wanted to be offended, the comments on this news story over at naver portal might be far worse than here. I have gone through some comments there on sensitive topics (like when that American boy died in the sauna last year) and I had never been so shocked by online comments in my life. It was unbelievably awful.
I don’t want to say anything about Korean culture in general here, but there is something about the confluence of internet culture and Korean youth/modern culture here that has created a nasty little subculture all its own, very callous and unfeeling, it seems.
incredibly offensive..incredibly ignorant…
#15,
They should all be thrown in jail, the men who raped this girl and the girls who forced her into sexual slavery.
Mizar5: I can’t see the difference. If this is “offbeat but not tragic,” I can’t see it. I tell you what though, if you could convince a female rape victim that this is the case, I might be tempted to go along for the ride.
By the way, are you a gyopo or a gyopo-poser? Not that it makes any difference here, but you sometimes seem to use your “gyopo status” as a buttress for your points.
#17, Do I see the difference? Respectfully, YES.
Society can and should be outraged when its members treat others like this.
As for your utterly ridiculous comment that you “would joke about this offbeat but not really tragic story,” the only thing that can be said is that perhaps you need to be held captive and pimped out. Would this change your mind about the crucial distinction between humor and tragedy?
You make some interesting and debatable points about the cultural differences on how stories like this one are viewed. But does an argument invoking cultural relativism really have any bearing on a case where a woman is held against her will and raped?
SomeguyinKorea
You are absolutely right, those men should be hunted down. I think it would have been obvious to them that something wasn’t right. They are more disgusting than the girls.
mjw
You make good points. People seem to be forgetting that the victim was raped and will be psychologically scarred for life. There is nothing humorous about this at all.
mjw is absolutely right — there is nothing humorous about this. And the post wasn’t meant to be humorous.
Mr. Marmot: part of mjw’s beef is taking issue with your use of the jocular phrase “do tricks.” While no doubt unintentionally, it may have contributed to a light-hearted attitude taken by some of your posters.
Thank goodness we have Baduk here who will.
A: Knock knock.
B: Who’s there?
A: Kwangju Commie
B: * BANG! *
I simply attributed “do tricks” (instead of “turn tricks”) to be yet more inarticulacy with the English language. Standards have really fallen precipitously.
Counsellor Carr, the preferred word is inarticulateness, rather than what you typed above. (check Google hits)
There is a growing problem with “runaways” in Korean society. Young people in trouble, due to various problems at home, are vulnerable to crime and risk becoming a long-term problem for the society.
As per one source “There currently are around eighty youth shelters that provide temporary accommodation and meals to teenagers but unfortunately, there is currently no organization (neither NGO nor government-level) which is able to manage donations and their distribution to shelters or runaway teenagers across the country.” Especially now, more Koreans are becoming aware of this growing problem and more attention is being paid to such. As usual, I expect the public will step up and do what they can to help, especially after Korean media focuses more on this looming issue.
I know there will most definitely be more articles and efforts to organize help in the next several months for teens who are in trouble. If anyone feels like they would like to help, do participate and contribute when any you see the chance.
Some of the comments on this board would disturb me if they tumbled out of the mouths of people I knew, rather than being typed in an internet forum under anonymous usernames.
Let the fact that you and all the morons using the word on Google believe inarticulateness is preferable to inarticulacy be marked as “Exhibit A”.
Knowing full well this will carry no water with Counsellor Carr:
Exhibit B:
The American Heritage Dictionary does have both, but give inarticulateness first: http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/inarticulacy
Exhibit C:
Wiktionary has no entry on inarticulacy, but it does have one on inarticulatness.
Happy Seollal, Brendon!
“As for your utterly ridiculous comment that you “would joke about this offbeat but not really tragic story,” the only thing that can be said is that perhaps you need to be held captive and pimped out. Would this change your mind about the crucial distinction between humor and tragedy? ”
I am neither defending the perpetrators nor belittling the suffering of the victim. Naturally, I am every bit as sympathetic as you. I was merely explaining how it is that people can find humor in dark situations, and providing a bit of perspective. Humor vs. tragedy is a false dichotomy. Humor is simply one way in which people deal with pain and anguish.
“You make some interesting and debatable points about the cultural differences on how stories like this one are viewed. But does an argument invoking cultural relativism really have any bearing on a case where a woman is held against her will and raped?”
No, that was parenthetical. I was merely placing this in perspective, as you did by personalizing the issue. And #23 makes an interesting point about where outrage can be found in the story, something I overlooked.
You have made good points. I do not dispute them. Rape is no joking matter. Touche.
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