Some of you may remember this, back in 2005 there was a drinking party with employees from Hyundai’s U.S. headquarters in Fountain Valley, California. After the typical il, yi and (maybe?) sam cha rounds of drinking one of the executives drove home and ended up crashing his company provided car into the highway.
Unfortunately, a young man returning home from band practice crashed into the parked car. Hyundai then conveniently whisked their employee away to Korea without any real regard for accepting responsibility for what happened.
Youn Bum Lee, 41, will be escorted by U.S. Marshalls from Seoul to Orange County, California today to face felony charges for the vehicular manslaughter death of Ryan Cook, 23.
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That’s a fun flight. They put you in handcuffs and leg irons and then take you on the plane looking like Hannibal Lecter. Then they take the shackles off once the plane is in the air and let you go to the bathroom unescorted! haha! The expressions on peoples’ faces when they saw this crazed man who boarded the plane shackled ambling towards the bathroom were priceless…
Good. He got what’s coming to him.
The original post (http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/04/06/hyundai-official-flew-to-korea-after-fatal-hit-and-run-in-la/) states that the suspect is an employee of “Hyundai Corperation (sic).”
To be clear, Hyundai Corporation is an entirely separate entity from Hyundai Motors America. (www.hyundaicorp.com).
I just want to clear up any confusion among readers.
The original post (http://www.rjkoehler.com/2006/04/06/hyundai-official-flew-to-korea-after-fatal-hit-and-run-in-la/) states that the suspect is an employee of “Hyundai Corperation (sic).”
To be clear, Hyundai Corporation (www.hyundaicorp.com) is an entirely separate entity from Hyundai Motors America, which appears to have been the employer of the suspect.
I just want to clear up any confusion among readers.
Interesting, Wangkon, you edited your post.
Methinks you belatedly realized that you had misused the word “extricate”, yet couldn’t quite figure out what the proper word was.
Let me help — it’s “extradite”.
Do mom and dad cry when they think of the $100k+ wasted they spent on USC’s football program?
wow .. a Korean who is going to be actually held responsible for his actions … I think Hyundai should also get some penalty for sneaking him out of the USA. Time to bitch-slap them too.
Ernest Hemingway’s shortest short story…
“For sale: baby shoes, never worn.”
# 5,
Worth every dang peny…
I wonder what will happen to him in prison.
#9,
Well, he hasn’t been found guilty yet.
I’d wait until I knew if he is responsible for the other driver to crash into his car and also for the DA’s office’s evidence to support its claims of gross negligence before being sure that he’ll see any jail time for this felony charge.
Good news! He deserves whatever sentence he gets. Now if only Korea would also enforce stricter penalties for DUIs maybe the streets will be a little safer here. Getting DUIs off the streets would actually make Korea sparkle. That would be a lot better than some of the cockamamie schemes LMB keeps cooking up.
Korean DMV’s ought to charge $3000 for getting a driver’s license. Hell, this is what America should do also. This is what Germany does and one of the reasons why the Germans are deadly serious about their driving. If you rack up violation points and get your license suspended, no more driving for 6 months to a year. A state mandatory course in defensive driving. After that, a probation license. Plus, you have to pay other $3000. It works in Germany.
Just to bring this story up to date… Youn Bum Lee pleaded guilty in reference to this incident, and apparently got the maximum nine-year sentence, which included an enhancement for fleeing the scene.
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