It wasn’t that long ago actions like this was not taken seriously by Korean courts. It is good to see the progress made holding these weirdos accountable:
The court sentenced a pastor in his 40s to prison and arrested him in court for forcibly harassing a woman in her 20s who was a believer and related to a heterogeneous cousin.
According to the legal community on the 28th, the Chuncheon District Court’s Wonju Branch 1 (Chief Judge Lee Soo-woong) sentenced A (41) to three years in prison and arrested him without detention on charges of violating the Special Act on Sexual Violence Crimes Punishment.
The court also ordered the completion of a 40-hour sexual violence treatment program and restrictions on employment for five years at facilities related to children, adolescents, and the disabled, respectively.
A, a church pastor, was indicted on charges of hugging B and touching her body by putting her hand inside her clothes while talking to B (25, female), a member and heterogeneous cousin, at 2 p.m. on June 23 last year.
At the time, the victim refused, saying to A, “What’s wrong with you, I’ll report it,” but “There are times when I can’t control myself because there are many male hormones.” It was revealed through the indictment that he continued to molest, saying, “I wanted to touch it normally.”
Maeil Kyeongchae
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Despite the “bad” level of fine dust, hikers cross a suspension bridge in Wonju, east of Seoul, on March 25, 2018, amid mild temperatures. The 200-meter-long bridge, which opened in early January, is the longest of its kind in South Korea. (Yonhap)
Visitors cross a suspension bridge over Mount Sogeum in the city of Wonju, northeast of Seoul, on Jan. 11, 2018, in this photo released by the Wonju municipality. The 200-meter-long Mount Sogeum Suspension Bridge opened on that day and is the longest bridge in South Korea’s mountains, leading to a 100-meter-high rock mountaintop. (Yonhap)
This is a horrible story out of Wonju:
A 75-year-old woman in Wonju, Gangwon, was arrested for allegedly killing her husband of 56 years with a hammer.
The suspect admitted the crime, according to police, saying she couldn’t stand her husband’s verbal and physical abuse any longer.
Wonju police filed a pre-trial detention warrant for the suspect. A local court will review it as early as today.
The alleged murder took place around 6 a.m. Wednesday, police said, after the 74-year-old victim fell off a chair while changing a lightbulb in a bathroom in the couple’s house.
The suspect heard a loud thump and went to check on her husband, and he allegedly berated her, saying, “It’s all because of you!” The woman told police during questioning that her husband’s head was bleeding and his eyes had rolled back.
The wife said she feared he would have to be hospitalized for a long period, which might prove expensive. She said she didn’t want to have to be his caregiver.
“I’ve put up with him all my life,” she said according to police. “I have even had to go to the hospital several times after he hit me.”
She left the bathroom, found a hammer and returned to finish him off. Autopsy results indicated she had hit him in about 20 different areas all over his body, including his face and neck. The direct cause of the victim’s death was “multiple injuries.” [Joong Ang Ilbo]
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