Supreme Court affirms sentences on KU med students

by thekorean on June 29, 2012

in South Korea

Remember those three (former) Korea University med students who sexually assaulted their fellow student who was drunk and passed out at a retreat? The Supreme Court affirmed the district court’s sentence of 2.5 years in prison for the ring leader, and 1.5 year in prison for the two cohorts. In addition to the prison time, their personal information will be publicly available for three years.

Korea University expelled these three students last year, expunging their record at the university and prohibiting them from re-applying to the school.

{ 13 comments… read them below or add one }

1 thekorean June 29, 2012 at 6:17 am

By the way, can someone explain the difference between this one and the two girls molesting a guy who was drunk and passed out? Thanks.

2 Creo69 June 29, 2012 at 6:49 am

“By the way, can someone explain the difference between this one and the two girls molesting a guy who was drunk and passed out? Thanks.”

The difference would be sexism.

3 R. Elgin June 29, 2012 at 7:25 am

Spend the money and consult a lawyer if you want an answer.

4 gbevers June 29, 2012 at 7:34 am

The Korean wrote (#1):

By the way, can someone explain the difference between this one and the two girls molesting a guy who was drunk and passed out? Thanks.

The difference is probably the 등 part. If the men simply touched the woman’s genitals, then it would probably be the same. If they inserted their penises, then it would be different.

5 gbevers June 29, 2012 at 7:55 am

Why don’t you just get rid of the “moderation” function, Robert? Often it works inexplicably, but today it seems not to have liked my use of the word pen*s, which is not a dirty word.

6 thekorean June 29, 2012 at 8:04 am

If the men simply touched the woman’s genitals, then it would probably be the same.

That’s exactly what happened with the KU students. It was a sexual assault, not rape.

7 iMe June 29, 2012 at 8:27 am

tk,
if two college chicks played with your penis when you were 17, would you have called the cops and pressed charges?

8 Robert Koehler June 29, 2012 at 8:40 am

See comment 7. Legally speaking, there is no difference, but culturally, socially and perhaps instinctively, there’s a world of difference. See also reactions to male teachers sleeping with female teenage students and female teachers sleeping with male teenage students. I’m guessing these differences will be reflected in the way the two cases are handled., i.e., the girls weren’t even detained.

9 thekorean June 29, 2012 at 9:07 am

if two college chicks played with your penis when you were 17, would you have called the cops and pressed charges?

Probably not. But this might be the first time you are using what I would do as a justification for anything. Welcome aboard! I will vote for Obama in this coming election — I will be counting on your vote.

10 jefferyhodges June 29, 2012 at 9:37 am

TK asked, “By the way, can someone explain the difference between this one and the two girls molesting a guy who was drunk and passed out? Thanks.”

I’ll try to explain, TK. In this one, two guys molested a girl who was passed out drunk. In the other one, two girls molested a guy who was passed out drunk. That’s the difference.

Jeffery Hodges

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11 babotaengi June 29, 2012 at 10:53 am

Nice to finally see some prigs suffer real consequences for their actions.

12 Cloud June 29, 2012 at 11:35 am

According to the victim, she was also raped. http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2011/06/117_88264.html
I don’t think a Korean court would have handed out these sentences if there weren’t evidence of more than fondling, considering the careers of these boys were on the line and that they had “influential” parents. The videos and photos were deleted before they were confiscated but they should have also confiscated their computers to recover files.

13 iMe June 29, 2012 at 12:43 pm

ha ha!
thanks for the warm welcome, tk. but if you don’t mind, i’d like to take my vote and go home so i can go to bed. maybe i’ll get molested by a couple of college chicks while asleep…if i’m lucky.

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