Father Protests in Seoul After Children Abducted By Mother and Taken to Korea
This is a really bad situation and I had no idea that South Korea does so little to return children that are abducted:
On a cold Nov. 30 afternoon, when temperatures nosedived to minus seven degrees Celsius in Seoul, bringing with it the nation’s first cold wave alert of the season, John Sichi was walking on a treadmill in front of Dongdaemun Design Plaza in central Seoul. Undeterred by the biting winds, the U.S. citizen walked for nearly four hours.
Korea Times
Near the treadmill stood a placard reading, “Please let me see my children,” and a life-size cardboard cutout of his two kids ― a 5-year-old boy and 3-year-old girl.
People walking by approached him ― some with curiosity and some with empathy ― to see why a man would be walking on a treadmill in freezing weather. A woman handed him 10,000 won, probably assuming it was a fundraising campaign.
Sichi has been staging the treadmill protest since October in various spots in Seoul, in a desperate effort to find his missing children who have been allegedly abducted by his Korean wife.
His demand is simple: The Korean government should enforce court orders from both the U.S. and Korea that the children should be returned to the U.S.
You can read more at the link.
And do you know how many children were abducted from Korea, taken by their parents to America? I got news for you, none of the Korean court orders were enforced by the American side either.
Good point, KM.
In Korea: Guy is American, wife is Korean. Yeah…he’s not getting those kids back. He’s got to get off that treadmill and get a good lawyer. But even at that, he’s pretty screwed.