A correspondent for the Joong Ang Ilbo Park Hyun-young is concerned he is going to be targeted in the U.S. for being Asian. He titled his piece “A Jungle of Violence”:
I liked to talk on the phone or listen to podcasts while walking. But I don’t put my earphones on when walking in downtown Washington so that I can be aware of my surroundings. If I use earphones, it is hard to know whether there’s someone behind me or if person is talking to me or walking faster suddenly.
It is a new habit I’ve developed as crimes against Asian Americans are on the rise in the United States. If I run into a stranger in a secluded place, I look around to see if there’s any surveillance cameras.It is more often that I don’t find them. (…….) Before America gets the disgrace of being labeled a “jungle” dominated by the physically strong, the Biden administration needs to address the issue seriously without political calculation.
You can read the rest at the link, but one could argue that Mr. Park’s title for his article is racist in itself by trying to compare the U.S. to a jungle. Just ask President Biden. Anyway something else that Mr. Park needs to realize is that even white people in certain areas of D.C. have to be careful where the walk and what they doing. The mentally ill and criminal elements often behind these assault don’t limit their illegal activities to just Asian people.
The old trick them into prostitution strategy is alive and well:
A Queens couple faces sex trafficking charges for tricking two South Korean women into prostitution by helping them pay for their travel and offering them a restaurant job in the U.S. (…….)
One of the victims answered an ad she found in South Korea in 2015 promising her a job in the U.S. and travel expenses paid by her employers, according to the Astoria Post. As part of their agreement, her employers required her to pay the $10,000 they used for transportation and her passport fees. Jung Ja picked up the victim at the John F. Kennedy Airport in New York and brought her to an address in Steinway Street, Astoria. However, the deal suddenly changed, and she informed her that she would work as a prostitute to pay off her debt to the Ornsteins. The suspects allegedly forced her to have sex with strangers at the address.
The massage parlor killings in Atlanta has a Korean connection:
Four people of Korean descent were among those killed in a series of deadly shootings in the U.S. city of Atlanta, the foreign ministry said Wednesday.
South Korea’s Consulate General in Atlanta sent consular staff members to check if there were any other Korean causalities in the shootings, the ministry said.
The consulate has confirmed with the local police that the four killed in the shooting were of Korean descent, a ministry official said.
Authorities are still checking to confirm whether they held South Korean nationality.
You can read more at the link, but a 21 year old suspect has been taken into custody who is believed to have been the killer. Of course CNN is playing this up as a racial incident with no evidence to support it.
Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl’s photo is displayed by his supporters near the Supreme Prosecutors Office in Seoul on March 4, 2021. (Yonhap)
Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl resigned Thursday, after strongly objecting to the ruling party’s push to create a new state agency to fully take over investigative powers from the prosecution service.
“I am offering to resign as of today,” Yoon said at a brief press conference held in front of the Supreme Prosecutors Office in Seoul.
“The spirits of the Constitution and the system of rule of law are crumbling. And it will cause damage to people. It is hard to watch common sense and justice collapsing,” he said, adding that he has done everything he could do in his capacity as prosecutor general.
President Moon Jae-in swiftly accepted his resignation offer, Cheong Wa Dae said, shortly after the prosecution chief made the announcement.
You can read more at the link, but the Moon administration has been trying to take out Yoon because he had the nerve to investigate corruption within the administration. That is what makes this new investigation agency they want to establish so controversial because an administration with a numerous corruption issues wants to form their own agency to investigate corruption and other crimes. The concern is that ruling party will use it to protect themselves and go after their political enemies. If this new agency was in operation when the Cho Kuk scandal hit does anyone think this Blue House appointed agency would have done much to investigate and indict him and his family for corruption?
As I have said before South Korea has long been a rule by law country and not a rule of law country. This agency may make it worse.
Another servicemember going to jail for a sex crime related offense:
Senior Airman Dante Torello poses at Kadena Air Base, Okinawa, June 25, 2019.
An airman stationed at Kadena Air Base on Okinawa pleaded guilty and another is scheduled for a court-martial on charges of making and distributing indecent recordings without the subject’s consent.
Senior Airman Dante Torello of the 353rd Special Operations Group pleaded guilty Feb. 3 to videoing his victim’s genitalia without consent and distributing the recording, according to the court docket. A photo of Torello released in June 2019 by Kadena’s 18th Wing described him as a loadmaster for the group’s 1st Special Operations Squadron.
You can read more at the link, but there is another airman awaiting trial who was the person giving oral sex without consent that Torello was videotaping.
What I don’t get is why this woman did not report to the bus driver what was happening, especially when the bus arrived at the rest stop?:
A woman had to endure three hours inside a bus next to a male stranger flashing his genitalia while traveling from Busan to Jeonju in January. Korea Times file
The nightmare trip began when she heard the announcement to fasten her seatbelt. As she fastened hers, she saw the man unzipping his pants and taking out his genitalia. She was shocked, but did not show any reaction, fearing that he would harm her.
When the bus reached a rest stop about halfway to Jeonju, she got off the bus and waited, trying to change her seat when she got back on. But she couldn’t because there were no empty seats. She took her seat next to him again, and he continued exposing himself.
She entered a message in her mobile device and handed it to a person behind her while hoping the pervert wouldn’t notice. The person behind her took the phone and saw what she wrote: “the man next to me is flashing and I want to record proof but I am too afraid. Please do it for me.”
The plan worked and she received back the phone with a video record of the man. Then she texted police to report what was happening.
This guy picks up a drunk women, restrains her with duct tape, and then claims he is the victim. Maybe this claim would of worked 20 years ago, but not today in Korea:
A hiking road on Mount Hwangnyeong in Busan’s Yeonje District.
The prosecution has dropped an assault case brought up against a woman who escaped an alleged rape attempt by biting off her attacker’s tongue, in recognition of self-defense.
The decision by the Busan District Public Prosecutors’ Office last week is expected to set a meaningful precedent in a country where self-defense is rarely recognized. In a similar case in 1965, a victim, Choi Mal-ja, received a suspended prison term, which she is now seeking to rectify through a retrial.
The recent case involved a female university student who took a trip to Busan with three friends on July 19, 2020. According to documents obtained by the Hankook Ilbo, sister paper of The Korea Times, a man in his 30s offered her a ride after spotting her obviously drunk ― with an alleged intention to rape her. She got into the passenger’s seat, thinking he was a taxi driver.
On his way to a remote place, he bought duct tape, a pack of condoms and three bottles of soju. The man parked in the middle of the road on Mount Hwangnyeong in the city’s Yeonje District, and shoved his tongue in her mouth ― and she bit it off.
It seems to me it would be a difficult precedent to start by holding first responders criminally responsible every time an emergency operation does not go well. Who would want to take the risk of being a first responder then? It appears that the Seoul court agrees with that assessment:
The salvaged Sewol ferry sits at a port in Mokpo, South Jeolla Province, southwestern South Korea, on April 16, 2020, the sixth anniversary of the sinking of the 6,800-ton Sewol passenger ferry. (Yonhap)
A Seoul court on Monday acquitted a former maritime police chief of mishandling the rescue operation during the sinking of the Sewol ferry in 2014 that killed more than 300 people.
The Seoul Central District Court found Kim Suk-kyoon, then-chief of the Korea Coast Guard, not guilty of professional negligence in one of the country’s worst peacetime disasters.
Nine others, who were in key posts of the organization at that time, were also acquitted of the same charge.
The Korean left has already been putting journalists they don’t like in jail and now want to expand their legal offense against their conservative critics even further:
Rep. Noh Woong-rae, center, the leader of the ruling Democratic Party of Korea’s taskforce team for media reform, talks to reporters after a meeting at the National Assembly, Tuesday. Noh said they decided to seek the revision of a law to force media to pay punitive damages for victims of “fake news.” Yonhap
The ruling Democratic Party of Korea (DPK) is planning to revise a law within the National Assembly’s February session aimed at requiring media to pay punitive damages for spreading “fake news”. While the DPK said that punishment is needed to prevent the distortion of information and the spread of fake news by not only conventional media, but also portal sites and YouTube, conservative critics raised concerns that the law could be used to tame the media in the name of cracking down on fake news.
The DPK’s askforce team said, Tuesday, that it would revise the law to apply punitive damages to newspapers, TV broadcasters, portal site operators, YouTubers and other one-person media users for spreading false information.
Before the team’s decision, Rep. Yoon Young-chan of the party proposed a revised bill to have YouTubers, other one-person media users and portal site operators to pay up to three times the damages caused by their fake news to the victims. The team also decided that conventional media, such as newspaper and TV, should also be subject to such punishment if they spread fake news.
The Coast Guard has seized 35 kilograms of cocaine from a container ship in the southern port city of Busan, officials said Saturday. Courtesy of Southern Regional Coast Guard Headquarters, Yonhap
The Coast Guard has seized 35 kilograms of cocaine from a container ship in the southern port city of Busan, officials said Saturday.
The drug has an estimated street value of 105 billion won (US$93.94 million), the authorities added.
The packages were found on a Liberia-flagged ship, which departed from Colombia Dec. 15 and arrived at Busan New Port, Jan. 19. Their exteriors had a scorpion-shaped logo, which is usually used by Colombian drug cartels.
