Repeatedly gang rape an underage retarded girl who is in your own family
—> Released to go home with the victim in your care, so you can continue to gang rape her

Korea Sparkling!

Although this is just as sick as this case we have here in South Korea, the man was convicted and will receive at least 19.5 years (he got 25 life sentences). However, I think that maybe you miss the point that most of the poster here were making.

People want the Korean case to get more international attention because the men convicted only received a slap on the wrist. They won’t have to serve any “extra” jail time. Not only that, but the girl that they raped will be released back into their “care.” The monster in England was convicted, will probably not be released, and his daughters (obviously) will not have to go back to living with him.

http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/11/25/court.rapes/index.html

didn’t have the link because I saw it on T.V.

Generally speaking, higher ranked graduates from the universities apply and get the judgeship and prosecutor positions. They advance in position over the years and those who don’t quite make the grades are periodically trimmed. Many of them go into defense work, and higher they got before they got trimmed, more influence they have. So in Korea, it’s not necessarily a good thing to get a defense lawyer with 20 year defense experience. That may mean his grades were never good enough to get on the judge/prosecutor track, or he got trimmed relatively early and has alot more “hyunbae” in the system than “huebae.”

Anyway, let’s say a judge almost makes it to the top tier but was released and he turns to defense work. While relatively inexperienced as a defense attorney, he has a network of friends and colleagues from his years as a judge. More significantly, he has a number of “huebae” from his university and his career he had helped and cultivated over the years and who work in prosecutor’s offices and in the judge’s offices. As their “hyunbae” he receives a lot of deference that other defense attorneys can only dream about.

So this family of rapists hire this defense attorney, and he goes and calls in his old debt, and works out a sweet deal.

System is rotten on more ways than you can imagine. But it does leave a relatively clear way for the rich and powerful, so rather than hoping for a systemic change that will never come, try to be rich and powerful if you can. That should explain a lot on how many Koreans behave the way they do.