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What do you think about Subway Gropers in South Korea?

  • From koreantimes Women Vulnerable to Subway Gropers A growing number of women are victims of sexual crimes in the subway. According to the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency, the number of sex crimes committed in subways has increased by 12 percent over the last few years. Also, a recent survey on 1,360 women by the local broadcaster KBS showed more than 40 percent of them experienced sexual dishonor in the subway and 24.6 percent said they were sexually harassed. Especially, summer is the most loathed season for victims of sex harassment and the offenders vary from juveniles to the elderly. One such example involves Han, a 25-year-old woman from Goyang City, Gyeonggi Province. While Han was on the way to work by subway, she felt an old man was persistently gazing at her breast. She was very uncomfortable and muttered to herself ``Why is he looking at me.'' Suddenly, the man came and stroked her with his fist saying that she was the one looking at him. Han attempted to run away yelling, but the man continued to follow her. Han barely managed to call police and eventually sued him, but the old man counter-sued Han on a charge of violence insisting that Han violated him. ``The experience is traumatic for me. I still cannot sleep well nowadays. No matter how much I think about it, I am very angry and distressed,'' Han said. Park Ji-young, 28, is another victim of sexual harassment. When Park was on her way to school in a congested subway train, she felt somebody grope her buttocks and other parts of her body. Park was frightened but unable to do anything at the time. ``I have heard about sex crimes in the subway but it was my first time to go through the experience. Since then, I became very reluctant to ride on crowded subway trains,'' said Park, a graduate student at Ewha Womans University. Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center advised that women need to yell out and warn sexual offenders saying `I will report you to the police' as soon as they face sexual harassment. ``It is very hard to predict sexual harassment. So there is little we can do to prevent the crime except to counsel harassed women and develop education programs for possible offenders,'' said Kim Yeon-seok, a counselor of the center. Current law imposes a maximum one-year prison term or a fine of 3 million won on a person who committees a sexual crime in public.

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    It is disturbing. I remember reading about some rape cases in Korea where the offender received extremely lenient charges. South Korea needs to step it up when enforcing laws regarding sexual crimes.

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I think the other article about Korea reaching #3 in the OECD for murder of women was far more alarming than this article. MY THESIS: Groping is bad, but the police should focus their efforts more on preventing rape, murder, and general violence than on preventing groping, which is relatively harmless. Korea has a skyrocketing violence problem, and this is a higher priority than catching mischievous but mostly harmless ajeosshis. Groping isn't murder. It isn't rape. Sure, it's a bad thing, and something needs to be done about it, but I can't understand why someone would be traumatized because someone grabbed her buttocks on the subway. Geez. People touch my butt all the time, and I don't go apesh!t over it every time. In Korea, I was beaten with an ash tray and a fire extinguisher, one of my teeth was broken, and nobody around did jack sh!t to help me, so I don't see why groping gets so much attention and actual violence doesn't. It's not like you have to worry about an STD or pregnancy just because some ajeosshi sticks his hand down your shirt. Of course, it's possible that the sexual education program in Korea is so bad, there may actually be girls who believe you can, but guess what, you can't. I think a 3,000,000 won fine or one year of incarceration is more than enough, because it is common knowledge that morally dirty high school girls conspire to extort money from men by threatening to scream "SEONG-CHU-HAENG (groping)!" Increasing penalties on groping could result in many innocent men being either blackmailed by morally corrupt high school girls, or in various wrongful convictions with dire sentences and fines. The punishment should fit the crime, folks. Do you really think Korea should become like the United States, in which a man can be sued for tens of thousands of dollars just for staring at a woman for too long? Geez... Korea does definitely have issues regarding violence, sexual violence, etc. that it refuses to acknowledge. However, groping and seongchuhaeng (sexual misconduct) on subways is not rape, and does not deserve the attention that should be accorded to rape and murder.

Shinchon

I blame the east asian porn industry, It's well documented and laughed at by the western society that the east have genre's of porn that range from tentacles, to illustrated children. Maybe if the culture wasn't so bizaare that it accepts such things, this sort of thing wouldn't be happening.

LokiAkuma

Korea, China, Japan, etc they all need to step it up a notch on security/sexual harrasment

kevin

~ idc 4 crime period these ppl need 2 stop ~

Ty ♥

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