2. Panel stresses role of victims' role in criminal trials
3. In Korea, there are no juries. Therefore the decision is entitled to the judge. This article points out that victim's role should be enhanced. Victims should have part in sentencing the criminal. Many victims in Korea are actually threantened or disturbed by the criminal's family when going in trial. Law should not only give victims to take part in sentencing but also protect the victim during and after trial.
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The court should actively reflect the victim’s opinion and statement in its rulings, according to a study by the Korean Institute of Criminology.
“The present criminal sentencing system is almost entirely reliant on the judge’s decision,” said a KIC official yesterday.
The victims should not only be questioned as witnesses but should actually have a say on the detailed sentence of the criminal, he said.
The victim’s right of making a statement in court is a basic constitutional right and should be more strongly protected, the official also said.
“The victim should be recognized as an independent subject in the corresponding case and should not be left out of the related criminal trial procedures,” the official said.
“The present criminal sentencing procedures need a fundamental renovation.”
2. Suicide rate soars to put Korea at top of OECD list
3. Korea's suicide rate has risen drastically in the last 10 years. In OECD countries, Korea has the highest rate of suicide. The article showed suicide as the fourth most common cause of the death in Korea.
Suicide is another form of crime. Many people feel skeptical and untrusting from man or woman who commit suicide. The singer, Choi Jin Young was dead because of his sister's suicide. It gave people heartbreaking grief, and then make someone died in the end.
Why is suicide so serious in Korea? Why especially in Korea? I approached this problems in Global aspect. Korea has been growing dramatically since 1970 and it forms "fast culture" in Korea. Young generation do not know the toil which older generation had suffered. Fast culture makes people comfortable, but didn't teach them how to deal the social problems. Young generation used to being comfortable and they choose death, the easiest way to solve their problems. And more and more people use Internet (Korea is the most developed IT country), people put themselves into deep isolation. Nowadays, many people seriously suffered from depression in Korea. Sitting in front of computer is a habit for Korean so they do not solve their mind sickness. This is another factor which global society gave us.
Global communication have brought a rush of new crimes that use the computer, such as Internet fraud and identity theft, drug smuggling and bomb making (p313). But I think most fatal crimes in Korea by global network is suicide and it is very paradox. Lots of informations cover individual's precious life.
------------------------------------------------------------ 3. Korea has the highest suicide rate among all the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, according to a report by the Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday.
An average 24.3 people per 100,000 die every year from suicide in Korea, followed by an average of 21 in Hungary, 19.4 in Japan and 16.7 in Finland. France and the United States saw an average of 14.2 and 10.1 people die respectively from suicide annually.
The ministry report was based on the latest data from Statistics Korea, which compared suicide rates in Korea in 2008 to other countries.
Korea’s suicide rate has risen drastically in the last 10 years, the study found. In 2008, 12,858 Koreans committed suicide - up 49 percent from the 1998 figure which was 8,622. The data showed suicide as the fourth most common cause of death in Korea in 2008, accounting for 5.2 percent of all deaths. This follows the No.1 cause of death, cancer, with 28 percent, as well as brain and heart illnesses.
*Though Korea is not directly related to afghanistan or taliban, because Korea maintains friendly relationship with US,Taliban has been a constant threat to Korea, too. It was shown at the abduction case in 2007(of course it's said that the hostages' inappropriate behavior kind of caused it, but still...). So even though we did not do any direct harm to taliban, but because of the nations we're economically related, it's inevitable to regard many delinquent foreigners as a potential terrorists for the nation's safety.
--------------------------------------- Korea will install a fingerprint authentication system in major airports and seaports with the aim of keeping dangerous foreigners from entering the country, the Justice Ministry said yesterday.
The announcement comes as Seoul continues its preparations for the G-20 Summit.
“For a safe G-20 Summit, foreigners who are suspected to have criminal backgrounds will need to go through fingerprint identification,” said an official at the Justice Ministry.
-I think this case is an excellent example that demonstrates how Koreans still lack an open mind and the attitude of a global citizen, despite the global current of acceptance and understanding of diversity and difference as a result of globalization. This was an extreme case of external expression of xenophobia but many Koreans, not unlike Mr. Park, do have such sentiments toward foreigners although they may not express it outwardly. Such xenophobia is found more towards people from South Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Yesterday, I watched a documentary about Koreans having biased view toward Muslims living in Korea; viewing them as terrorists, or potential terrorists. All those who looked like they were from the Middle East, were all treated as criminals in the eyes of the Koreans. Some of these immigrants complained that they were discriminated because people thought they were Muslims, and thus a member of the Taliban, when they weren’t even Muslims. Moreover, the Korean neighbors who lived next to the Muslims didn’t even know what was going on in the Muslim community. They showed no interest and no concern toward them.
The article here shows the social ill of accepting only one-sided globalization- that is, from the West- and discarding the cultural inflow from Asia, Middle East, and Africa- the third world countries. This biased view could have been formed due to propel toward capitalistic ideals. The West, undeniably being a more developed society based on Capitalism, could have been seen as a target of respect and a model to emulate.
I think such phenomenon can be solved through the mixture of peacemaking/restorative justice and left realism. As the peacemaking criminology claims, we need to “de-escalate violence by responding to it through forms of conciliation, mediation, and dispute settlement. [We need to] understand and respond to the concerns of the victims.” (p.329, 331). And according to restorative justice, we need “a process whereby all parties with a stake in a particular offence come together to solve collectively how to deal with the aftermath of the offence and its implications for the future.” (p.332) As for Left realists who believe “capitalism promotes competitive individualism and feeds of patriarchy and racism (p.335),” we need to “protect the rights of victims and provide equal justice to the powerless through state protection, community policing, and neighborhood watch.” (p.340) _________________________________________________
Korean convicted of racism for 1st time November 28, 2009
A 31-year-old man surnamed Park was fined 1 million won ($860) yesterday for using racially discriminatory remarks against an Indian research professor working in Korea, according to the Bucheon branch of the Incheon District Court.
It’s the first time a Korean has been convicted of racism here.
Bonojit Hussain, 28, filed charges against Park after he was subjected to a tirade of abusive language on a bus on July 10 this year. Park called the Indian “dirty” and “smelly.”
The Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office decided to file summary indictments against Park on Aug. 31 this year.
Prosecutors pressed charges against Park under criminal law because Korea does not have a law prohibiting language or actions that discriminate against race.
The decision of the prosecutors’ office prompted Democratic Party lawmaker Jun Byung-hun to announce on Sept. 6 a plan for a new bill banning Koreans from racist behavior and language. Jun said clauses in the bill will make it illegal for Koreans to humiliate or instill a sense of shame among foreigners living here.
The bill also covers insulting behavior and mistreatment in the job market, education, criminal investigation, court rooms, mass transportation, commercial facilities, housing and financial and medical services.
Under the proposal, foreigners can appeal to the National Human Rights Commission if they feel they have suffered racial discrimination while in Korea. _________________________________________________
"Korean Navy Nears Supertanker Seized by Somali Pirates"
Although the hijacking of the Korean supertanker occurred in the Indian Ocean, outside of the official Korean territory, this event is considered to have occurred in Korean territory under the "maritime flag state principle" of the territorial principle. Territorial principle states that the state has jurisdiction over all persons and objects within its territory, and the maritime flag state principle states that the nationality of the ships or planes in the high sea determines the territoriality and jurisdiction. Therefore, this is considered an event occurred in the Korean territory.
According to the Peacemaking/Restorative Theory, the society and the social order are hierarchical systems of power and authority. In this case, the global economic hierarchy is the social order. This theory could say the divisions of class and the region (state) between the Somali pirates and Korean sailors/Samho company, and those of upper economic level could be seen to exploit the lower level. Hijacking the Korean ship is a reflection of the broken "social" (=international) relations, and it harmed the Korean company and sailors. In this event, concentration of economic power created hierarchies, which divided people and made them struggle with each other, and caused the crime.
However, the possible recommendation of this theory to this case, which is to replace the hierarchy/concentration of economic power, does not seem to be realistic. As the Korean Navy intervened, "abolishing state coercion" and "genuine democracy based on consensual decision making" would not work, either. Only possible positive outcomes would be the Korean Navy capturing the Somali pirates and release captives, using force, or negotiating with pirates with acceptable amount of ransom.
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South Korean navy destroyer has caught up with a hijacked supertanker under control of Somali pirates, an official at Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The destroyer has tracked down the 300,000-ton tanker, Samho Dream, heading to Somali waters, the official told reporters. "The destroyer, Chungmugong Yi Sun-shin, arrived in waters near the Samho Dream at around 1:20 a.m. [Korean time] and is now operating in its vicinity," he said. The 4,500-ton destroyer was keeping a close watch over the hijacked vessel about 30 miles away, a defense ministry official said.
I found this article interesting because abandonment of the spouse and children is clearly a crime, yet runaway US soldier husbands did not seem to be properly punished/forced to go back or compensate by the Korean government or the US government.
What is also interesting in this program is that it is not only limited to this region, and that abandoned wives can contact using Korean, English, Spanish, Russian or Tagalog.
The crime (abandoning family by US soldiers) could be explained by Left Realism to certain extent - in the way that the US soldiers victimize their wives and children who are even weaker than themselves. However, this theory is not mostly applicable to this case because the US soldiers who abandon their wives in the local countries are not powerless - actually they abuse the power of their home country.
I think the US army's intervention is related to the Peacemaking/Restorative Theory. Although it does involve a court martial, the purpose of this program is to make the offenders responsible for their family rather than to isolate or coerce them using the state/US military power. It is more interested in the reintegration the offenders and victims by "providing the possible environment," and ensuring basic rights of the victims.
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The United States Army in Korea has been running an “Abandoned Spouses Hotline” program here for a year in hopes of helping women and children stranded by their soldier-husbands, according to yesterday’s edition of the Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military’s independent news source.
The outreach program is designed to help both women unable to complete the paperwork to join their husbands at their next posts, and those whose husbands have left Korea with no apparent intention of taking their wives and children with them, said Elizabeth Samarripa, the Army Community Services outreach program coordinator for Area I, the northernmost region of Korea where U.S. military forces are stationed.
Samarripa said that it is highly improper and against Army regulations for U.S. soldiers to abandon their families, according to the Stars and Stripes.
The newspaper said that some 30 women, mostly foreign-born military wives, have benefited from the program, which located their runaway husbands.
An Interpol wanted pedophile criminal worked in Korea as an English teacher
I’ve tried to find some good articles that was dealing with the ideas that was mentioned in the textbook such as Postmodernism, Restorative Justice etc but I couldn’t so let me just post this article which concerned about a global crime.
This article is about a Canadian pedophile criminal who had been wanted by the Interpol. He had assaulted 12 6 to10 year-old boys in East-Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand. He also had uploaded videos (him assaulting boys) on the internet. What was shocking for me was that he had been worked in Korea and other East-Asian countries as a native English teacher.
This article shows two important things related to Globalization.
The first thing is that Korea might be the most globalized society in that a lot of people eager to learn English and be good at this language. I think this eager resulted in too much of demand for native English teachers. What is bad is, of course now things have changed a lot, that people don’t care about teachers’ qualification and her/his background. I think some teacher-to-be foreigners took advantage of it-Korean English Education market has loose regulation and I can be hired despite my defect-. Korea is not a traditionally mixed society such as the US and France so I guess that it doesn’t have some proper or specified law or rules for foreigners’ or immigrants’ crimes. As Korea is getting more and more international, we need to do something on it.
The second one is the power of global citizen. The criminal was arrested through the Interpol ‘Globally Wanted System(I don’t know how to call it in English: once the Interpol make an announce about a criminal who might run away from this country to that one on its internet site, netizens from all around the world report some important information.) A global investigation for a global crime! I guess this kind of international cooperation would have more and more importance. ------------------------------------------------
I'd like to post two articles, one in Korean and one in English. They are a bit different but deal with the same case.
국제형사경찰기구(인터폴)에 의해 전세계에 공개수배된 아동 성추행범이 며칠 전까지도 한국의 한 학교에서 청소년 대상 원어민 영어교사로 일한 사실이 드러났다. 무자격 외국인 영어강사 파문에 이어 성추행 범죄자까지 국내 영어교사로 취업한 사실이 확인됨에 따라 외국인 영어강사 채용과 인력 관리에 구멍이 뚫렸다는 우려가 다시 제기되고 있다.
A suspected paedophile who posted digitally obscured pictures on the Internet showing him raping young boys was identified by police Tuesday (Oct. 16) as a 32-year-old Canadian on the run in Thailand.
The Interpol detective leading the manhunt and the organization's leader separately urged fugitive Christopher Paul Neil to give himself up to the authorities, as new reports about his background emerged.
"He is now internationally known," case officer Mick Moran told AFP. "Really, there is no place for him to hide."
Credit card crime becomes more intelligent, “Should only cash be used?”
Credit card payment is a more convenient way of purchasing. As Internet becomes widespread, more people are purchasing through online stores with a few clicks of the mouse. However, with new technology and new method, there are also new ways to commit crime. This time it is hacking by organized crime gangs. Often, hacking groups are international crime gangs. The suspect from the article purchased card duplicator from China and used it in Korea to illegally use and pull out a huge sum of money. Viewing from the perspective of constitutive criminology, the global society produced this card duplicating crime since the crime gang used a card duplicator from China and used it in Korea and used the Internet to go through victims’ credit card information. Today, more people use online stores to purchase items. Interconnection through the Internet is the new culture, a product of globalization. Hacking will reveal personal information that otherwise was hidden before. Global culture where nearly everything can be shared by others produced this type of crime.
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Feb. 10, 2010
Last month, in Busan, the gang that used more than sixty million won by illegally duplicating credit card that a customer handed over for purchase was arrested by the police. They carried in the card duplicator from China and after pulling out customers’ personal information from gas station and restaurant, they duplicated sixty credit cards and purchased expensive jewelry and withdrew cash, using a total of 62 million won.
Small business restaurants and small-scale enterprises that are credit card affiliates became the main target of the card duplication. Majority of the affiliates use POS card reader for payment. Connected to the Internet, POS card reader is different from the other card readers connected to the phone line in that there is more danger to hack and small business have weak security solution.
Baek Seung Bum from Credit Finance Banking Association said, “40% of all the credit card affiliates use POS card reader for payment. Although there is a thorough security system in big stores, POS card reader has a weak security system.”
*Credit card crime becomes more intelligent.. “Security click” cannot be relaxed
Credit card crime becomes more intelligent and organized, not only in card duplication but also online crimes. Last month, online small-payment system under 300 thousand won was hacked and there were an illegal use of 130 credit cards such as Sinhan and Samsung Cards in four different places over 1,800 times that gave damage of 100,007,000 Won. “Security click” authorized payment by only inputting CVC number at the back of the card, card number, and password. The hackers aimed for this. They hacked credit card information from personal PCs and email and gave damage of more than one hundred million won by method of “security click” service. But in online hacking, there are a large chance of the crime done by Chinese or other international crime gang; it is not easy to track down because of washing away IP addresses.
*Mobile banking service hacking defenseless Research showed that credit card payment through domestic smartphones is also vulnerable to hacking. Professor Lee Jung Hyun from Soongsil University pointed out, “This kind of hacking can be easily made by any computer major; the consumers should stop purchasing through the smartphones until the problem is solved.” Although credit card companies are trying to find a solution as credit card crimes grow day by day, there is a growing fear as hacking methods become more intelligent and organized.
The article is about peacemaking criminology. This is because the court of Korea concerns about their basic human rights and tries to make global peace. In addition, it could be done since Korea signed the U.N. Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. As well as Korea, many countries do this law enforcement efforts to achieve peace throughout the world. This means that we open the door to a lot of possible victims that might be persecuted in their home countries and call for international peace. -------------------------------------------------------------------- A Seoul court yesterday ruled in favor of a Myanmarese seeking refugee status in Korea, ordering the government to reverse its previous decision.
The Myanmarese missionary had filed a claim against the Justice Minister last year when he was denied of his refugee status after fleeing from the Southeast Asian country for fear of political persecution.
In its ruling, the Seoul Administrative Court said “the plaintiff’s statements that he fled his home country for fear of persecution from the military after the engaging in Christian missionary work are consistent and reliable.”
The court also noted that “as he has participated in numerous pro-democracy movement activities for Myanmar and protests against the military-rule in front of the Myanmar embassy, there is a high likelihood of persecution by the Myanmar government if repatriated.”
The newly proposed constitution of Myanmar has 104 principles, giving special status to Buddhism. The repressive military government has been trying to convert minority groups along the border to Buddhism for the past 10 years. Thousands who fled the country were repatriated and persecuted in 2005.
Korea signed the U.N. Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. A total of 175 have been granted asylum out of the 2,492 foreigners who have applied for refugee status. -------------------------------- http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100405000671
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ReplyDelete1. Ye Eun Cho
ReplyDelete2. Panel stresses role of victims' role in criminal trials
3. In Korea, there are no juries. Therefore the decision is entitled to the judge. This article points out that victim's role should be enhanced. Victims should have part in sentencing the criminal. Many victims in Korea are actually threantened or disturbed by the criminal's family when going in trial. Law should not only give victims to take part in sentencing but also protect the victim during and after trial.
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The court should actively reflect the victim’s opinion and statement in its rulings, according to a study by the Korean Institute of Criminology.
“The present criminal sentencing system is almost entirely reliant on the judge’s decision,” said a KIC official yesterday.
The victims should not only be questioned as witnesses but should actually have a say on the detailed sentence of the criminal, he said.
The victim’s right of making a statement in court is a basic constitutional right and should be more strongly protected, the official also said.
“The victim should be recognized as an independent subject in the corresponding case and should not be left out of the related criminal trial procedures,” the official said.
“The present criminal sentencing procedures need a fundamental renovation.”
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100405000675
1. So Hye sung
ReplyDelete2. Suicide rate soars to put Korea at top of OECD list
3. Korea's suicide rate has risen drastically in the last 10 years. In OECD countries, Korea has the highest rate of suicide. The article showed suicide as the fourth most common cause of the death in Korea.
Suicide is another form of crime. Many people feel skeptical and untrusting from man or woman who commit suicide. The singer, Choi Jin Young was dead because of his sister's suicide. It gave people heartbreaking grief, and then make someone died in the end.
Why is suicide so serious in Korea? Why especially in Korea?
I approached this problems in Global aspect. Korea has been growing dramatically since 1970 and it forms "fast culture" in Korea. Young generation do not know the toil which older generation had suffered. Fast culture makes people comfortable, but didn't teach them how to deal the social problems. Young generation used to being comfortable and they choose death, the easiest way to solve their problems.
And more and more people use Internet (Korea is the most developed IT country), people put themselves into deep isolation. Nowadays, many people seriously suffered from depression in Korea. Sitting in front of computer is a habit for Korean so they do not solve their mind sickness. This is another factor which global society gave us.
Global communication have brought a rush of new crimes that use the computer, such as Internet fraud and identity theft, drug smuggling and bomb making (p313).
But I think most fatal crimes in Korea by global network is suicide and it is very paradox. Lots of informations cover individual's precious life.
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3. Korea has the highest suicide rate among all the 30 Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development member countries, according to a report by the Ministry of Health and Welfare yesterday.
An average 24.3 people per 100,000 die every year from suicide in Korea, followed by an average of 21 in Hungary, 19.4 in Japan and 16.7 in Finland. France and the United States saw an average of 14.2 and 10.1 people die respectively from suicide annually.
The ministry report was based on the latest data from Statistics Korea, which compared suicide rates in Korea in 2008 to other countries.
Korea’s suicide rate has risen drastically in the last 10 years, the study found. In 2008, 12,858 Koreans committed suicide - up 49 percent from the 1998 figure which was 8,622. The data showed suicide as the fourth most common cause of death in Korea in 2008, accounting for 5.2 percent of all deaths. This follows the No.1 cause of death, cancer, with 28 percent, as well as brain and heart illnesses.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918314
*Yujung Kim
ReplyDelete*Foreign travelers to be fingerprinted
*Though Korea is not directly related to afghanistan or taliban, because Korea maintains friendly relationship with US,Taliban has been a constant threat to Korea, too.
It was shown at the abduction case in 2007(of course it's said that the hostages' inappropriate behavior kind of caused it, but still...). So even though we did not do any direct harm to taliban, but because of the nations we're economically related, it's inevitable to regard many delinquent foreigners as a potential terrorists for the nation's safety.
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Korea will install a fingerprint authentication system in major airports and seaports with the aim of keeping dangerous foreigners from entering the country, the Justice Ministry said yesterday.
The announcement comes as Seoul continues its preparations for the G-20 Summit.
“For a safe G-20 Summit, foreigners who are suspected to have criminal backgrounds will need to go through fingerprint identification,” said an official at the Justice Ministry.
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-Yun Suh Young
ReplyDelete-Korean convicted of racism for 1st time
-I think this case is an excellent example that demonstrates how Koreans still lack an open mind and the attitude of a global citizen, despite the global current of acceptance and understanding of diversity and difference as a result of globalization. This was an extreme case of external expression of xenophobia but many Koreans, not unlike Mr. Park, do have such sentiments toward foreigners although they may not express it outwardly. Such xenophobia is found more towards people from South Asia, Middle East and Africa.
Yesterday, I watched a documentary about Koreans having biased view toward Muslims living in Korea; viewing them as terrorists, or potential terrorists. All those who looked like they were from the Middle East, were all treated as criminals in the eyes of the Koreans. Some of these immigrants complained that they were discriminated because people thought they were Muslims, and thus a member of the Taliban, when they weren’t even Muslims. Moreover, the Korean neighbors who lived next to the Muslims didn’t even know what was going on in the Muslim community. They showed no interest and no concern toward them.
The article here shows the social ill of accepting only one-sided globalization- that is, from the West- and discarding the cultural inflow from Asia, Middle East, and Africa- the third world countries. This biased view could have been formed due to propel toward capitalistic ideals. The West, undeniably being a more developed society based on Capitalism, could have been seen as a target of respect and a model to emulate.
I think such phenomenon can be solved through the mixture of peacemaking/restorative justice and left realism. As the peacemaking criminology claims, we need to “de-escalate violence by responding to it through forms of conciliation, mediation, and dispute settlement. [We need to] understand and respond to the concerns of the victims.” (p.329, 331). And according to restorative justice, we need “a process whereby all parties with a stake in a particular offence come together to solve collectively how to deal with the aftermath of the offence and its implications for the future.” (p.332) As for Left realists who believe “capitalism promotes competitive individualism and feeds of patriarchy and racism (p.335),” we need to “protect the rights of victims and provide equal justice to the powerless through state protection, community policing, and neighborhood watch.” (p.340)
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A 31-year-old man surnamed Park was fined 1 million won ($860) yesterday for using racially discriminatory remarks against an Indian research professor working in Korea, according to the Bucheon branch of the Incheon District Court.
It’s the first time a Korean has been convicted of racism here.
Bonojit Hussain, 28, filed charges against Park after he was subjected to a tirade of abusive language on a bus on July 10 this year. Park called the Indian “dirty” and “smelly.”
The Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office decided to file summary indictments against Park on Aug. 31 this year.
Prosecutors pressed charges against Park under criminal law because Korea does not have a law prohibiting language or actions that discriminate against race.
The decision of the prosecutors’ office prompted Democratic Party lawmaker Jun Byung-hun to announce on Sept. 6 a plan for a new bill banning Koreans from racist behavior and language. Jun said clauses in the bill will make it illegal for Koreans to humiliate or instill a sense of shame among foreigners living here.
The bill also covers insulting behavior and mistreatment in the job market, education, criminal investigation, court rooms, mass transportation, commercial facilities, housing and financial and medical services.
Under the proposal, foreigners can appeal to the National Human Rights Commission if they feel they have suffered racial discrimination while in Korea.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913182
Yoon Young Kang
ReplyDelete"Korean Navy Nears Supertanker Seized by Somali Pirates"
Although the hijacking of the Korean supertanker occurred in the Indian Ocean, outside of the official Korean territory, this event is considered to have occurred in Korean territory under the "maritime flag state principle" of the territorial principle. Territorial principle states that the state has jurisdiction over all persons and objects within its territory, and the maritime flag state principle states that the nationality of the ships or planes in the high sea determines the territoriality and jurisdiction. Therefore, this is considered an event occurred in the Korean territory.
According to the Peacemaking/Restorative Theory, the society and the social order are hierarchical systems of power and authority. In this case, the global economic hierarchy is the social order. This theory could say the divisions of class and the region (state) between the Somali pirates and Korean sailors/Samho company, and those of upper economic level could be seen to exploit the lower level. Hijacking the Korean ship is a reflection of the broken "social" (=international) relations, and it harmed the Korean company and sailors. In this event, concentration of economic power created hierarchies, which divided people and made them struggle with each other, and caused the crime.
However, the possible recommendation of this theory to this case, which is to replace the hierarchy/concentration of economic power, does not seem to be realistic. As the Korean Navy intervened, "abolishing state coercion" and "genuine democracy based on consensual decision making" would not work, either. Only possible positive outcomes would be the Korean Navy capturing the Somali pirates and release captives, using force, or negotiating with pirates with acceptable amount of ransom.
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South Korean navy destroyer has caught up with a hijacked supertanker under control of Somali pirates, an official at Seoul's Foreign Ministry said Tuesday. The destroyer has tracked down the 300,000-ton tanker, Samho Dream, heading to Somali waters, the official told reporters. "The destroyer, Chungmugong Yi Sun-shin, arrived in waters near the Samho Dream at around 1:20 a.m. [Korean time] and is now operating in its vicinity," he said. The 4,500-ton destroyer was keeping a close watch over the hijacked vessel about 30 miles away, a defense ministry official said.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918836
Yoon Young Kang
ReplyDelete"U.S. Army Hotline Helps Locate Runaway Husbands"
I found this article interesting because abandonment of the spouse and children is clearly a crime, yet runaway US soldier husbands did not seem to be properly punished/forced to go back or compensate by the Korean government or the US government.
What is also interesting in this program is that it is not only limited to this region, and that abandoned wives can contact using Korean, English, Spanish, Russian or Tagalog.
The crime (abandoning family by US soldiers) could be explained by Left Realism to certain extent - in the way that the US soldiers victimize their wives and children who are even weaker than themselves. However, this theory is not mostly applicable to this case because the US soldiers who abandon their wives in the local countries are not powerless - actually they abuse the power of their home country.
I think the US army's intervention is related to the Peacemaking/Restorative Theory. Although it does involve a court martial, the purpose of this program is to make the offenders responsible for their family rather than to isolate or coerce them using the state/US military power. It is more interested in the reintegration the offenders and victims by "providing the possible environment," and ensuring basic rights of the victims.
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The United States Army in Korea has been running an “Abandoned Spouses Hotline” program here for a year in hopes of helping women and children stranded by their soldier-husbands, according to yesterday’s edition of the Stars and Stripes, the U.S. military’s independent news source.
The outreach program is designed to help both women unable to complete the paperwork to join their husbands at their next posts, and those whose husbands have left Korea with no apparent intention of taking their wives and children with them, said Elizabeth Samarripa, the Army Community Services outreach program coordinator for Area I, the northernmost region of Korea where U.S. military forces are stationed.
Samarripa said that it is highly improper and against Army regulations for U.S. soldiers to abandon their families, according to the Stars and Stripes.
The newspaper said that some 30 women, mostly foreign-born military wives, have benefited from the program, which located their runaway husbands.
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http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2918092
Gayoung KIM
ReplyDeleteAn Interpol wanted pedophile criminal worked in Korea as an English teacher
I’ve tried to find some good articles that was dealing with the ideas that was mentioned in the textbook such as Postmodernism, Restorative Justice etc but I couldn’t so let me just post this article which concerned about a global crime.
This article is about a Canadian pedophile criminal who had been wanted by the Interpol. He had assaulted 12 6 to10 year-old boys in East-Asian countries such as Vietnam, Thailand. He also had uploaded videos (him assaulting boys) on the internet. What was shocking for me was that he had been worked in Korea and other East-Asian countries as a native English teacher.
This article shows two important things related to Globalization.
The first thing is that Korea might be the most globalized society in that a lot of people eager to learn English and be good at this language. I think this eager resulted in too much of demand for native English teachers. What is bad is, of course now things have changed a lot, that people don’t care about teachers’ qualification and her/his background. I think some teacher-to-be foreigners took advantage of it-Korean English Education market has loose regulation and I can be hired despite my defect-. Korea is not a traditionally mixed society such as the US and France so I guess that it doesn’t have some proper or specified law or rules for foreigners’ or immigrants’ crimes. As Korea is getting more and more international, we need to do something on it.
The second one is the power of global citizen. The criminal was arrested through the Interpol ‘Globally Wanted System(I don’t know how to call it in English: once the Interpol make an announce about a criminal who might run away from this country to that one on its internet site, netizens from all around the world report some important information.) A global investigation for a global crime! I guess this kind of international cooperation would have more and more importance.
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I'd like to post two articles, one in Korean and one in English. They are a bit different but deal with the same case.
ReplyDelete국제형사경찰기구(인터폴)에 의해 전세계에 공개수배된 아동 성추행범이 며칠 전까지도 한국의 한 학교에서 청소년 대상 원어민 영어교사로 일한 사실이 드러났다. 무자격 외국인 영어강사 파문에 이어 성추행 범죄자까지 국내 영어교사로 취업한 사실이 확인됨에 따라 외국인 영어강사 채용과 인력 관리에 구멍이 뚫렸다는 우려가 다시 제기되고 있다.
A suspected paedophile who posted digitally obscured pictures on the Internet showing him raping young boys was identified by police Tuesday (Oct. 16) as a 32-year-old Canadian on the run in Thailand.
The Interpol detective leading the manhunt and the organization's leader separately urged fugitive Christopher Paul Neil to give himself up to the authorities, as new reports about his background emerged.
"He is now internationally known," case officer Mick Moran told AFP. "Really, there is no place for him to hide."
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Korean:http://news.kukinews.com/article/view.asp?page=1&gCode=kmi&arcid=0920691858&cp=nv
English:http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/koreatime_admin/LT/common/nview.asp?idx=588&nmode=1
EunBin Suk
ReplyDeleteCredit card crime becomes more intelligent, “Should only cash be used?”
Credit card payment is a more convenient way of purchasing. As Internet becomes widespread, more people are purchasing through online stores with a few clicks of the mouse. However, with new technology and new method, there are also new ways to commit crime. This time it is hacking by organized crime gangs. Often, hacking groups are international crime gangs. The suspect from the article purchased card duplicator from China and used it in Korea to illegally use and pull out a huge sum of money.
Viewing from the perspective of constitutive criminology, the global society produced this card duplicating crime since the crime gang used a card duplicator from China and used it in Korea and used the Internet to go through victims’ credit card information. Today, more people use online stores to purchase items. Interconnection through the Internet is the new culture, a product of globalization. Hacking will reveal personal information that otherwise was hidden before. Global culture where nearly everything can be shared by others produced this type of crime.
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Feb. 10, 2010
Last month, in Busan, the gang that used more than sixty million won by illegally duplicating credit card that a customer handed over for purchase was arrested by the police. They carried in the card duplicator from China and after pulling out customers’ personal information from gas station and restaurant, they duplicated sixty credit cards and purchased expensive jewelry and withdrew cash, using a total of 62 million won.
Small business restaurants and small-scale enterprises that are credit card affiliates became the main target of the card duplication. Majority of the affiliates use POS card reader for payment. Connected to the Internet, POS card reader is different from the other card readers connected to the phone line in that there is more danger to hack and small business have weak security solution.
Baek Seung Bum from Credit Finance Banking Association said, “40% of all the credit card affiliates use POS card reader for payment. Although there is a thorough security system in big stores, POS card reader has a weak security system.”
*Credit card crime becomes more intelligent.. “Security click” cannot be relaxed
Credit card crime becomes more intelligent and organized, not only in card duplication but also online crimes.
Last month, online small-payment system under 300 thousand won was hacked and there were an illegal use of 130 credit cards such as Sinhan and Samsung Cards in four different places over 1,800 times that gave damage of 100,007,000 Won.
“Security click” authorized payment by only inputting CVC number at the back of the card, card number, and password. The hackers aimed for this. They hacked credit card information from personal PCs and email and gave damage of more than one hundred million won by method of “security click” service. But in online hacking, there are a large chance of the crime done by Chinese or other international crime gang; it is not easy to track down because of washing away IP addresses.
*Mobile banking service hacking defenseless
Research showed that credit card payment through domestic smartphones is also vulnerable to hacking.
Professor Lee Jung Hyun from Soongsil University pointed out, “This kind of hacking can be easily made by any computer major; the consumers should stop purchasing through the smartphones until the problem is solved.”
Although credit card companies are trying to find a solution as credit card crimes grow day by day, there is a growing fear as hacking methods become more intelligent and organized.
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http://businessnews.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2010/02/10/2010021001505.html
Sejin Jung
ReplyDeleteMyanmar missionary granted refugee status
The article is about peacemaking criminology. This is because the court of Korea concerns about their basic human rights and tries to make global peace. In addition, it could be done since Korea signed the U.N. Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. As well as Korea, many countries do this law enforcement efforts to achieve peace throughout the world. This means that we open the door to a lot of possible victims that might be persecuted in their home countries and call for international peace.
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A Seoul court yesterday ruled in favor of a Myanmarese seeking refugee status in Korea, ordering the government to reverse its previous decision.
The Myanmarese missionary had filed a claim against the Justice Minister last year when he was denied of his refugee status after fleeing from the Southeast Asian country for fear of political persecution.
In its ruling, the Seoul Administrative Court said “the plaintiff’s statements that he fled his home country for fear of persecution from the military after the engaging in Christian missionary work are consistent and reliable.”
The court also noted that “as he has participated in numerous pro-democracy movement activities for Myanmar and protests against the military-rule in front of the Myanmar embassy, there is a high likelihood of persecution by the Myanmar government if repatriated.”
The newly proposed constitution of Myanmar has 104 principles, giving special status to Buddhism. The repressive military government has been trying to convert minority groups along the border to Buddhism for the past 10 years. Thousands who fled the country were repatriated and persecuted in 2005.
Korea signed the U.N. Convention and Protocol relating to the Status of Refugees in 1992. A total of 175 have been granted asylum out of the 2,492 foreigners who have applied for refugee status.
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http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/national/Detail.jsp?newsMLId=20100405000671