Public battle over S Korea rape claim

[AsianActivist]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-35931431

Airdre Mattner, who waived her right to anonymity, says she was attacked after an organised pub crawl last September.

She says police were dismissive and did not perform essential tests. She is now raising funds for further legal action.

Police in Seoul defended their actions, rejecting her story as "one-sided".

The officer in charge of the investigation made the comments directly to South Korean media. Ms Mattner said the information provided to reporters differed from what she had previously been told.

Ms Mattner said she attended a hospital with an attached police unit that specialised in sexual violence cases on the day after the alleged incident.

Rape is a huge problem in East Asian countries. Compounded by the fact that historically these cultures were very misogynistic, rape continues to be a problem for locals and foreign visitors alike.

Also women are often afraid to report or don't bother because the police don't take the claims seriously, especially if the accused is a local and the victim is a foreigner as in this case.

 

[Laika]

(Edit: slightly off topic but maybe useful).

In Cambodia during the Khmer Rouge, in addition to rape related to solders of various armies, there was the practice of forced marriage and consummation of the marriage. This was done for political purposes in that the state commanded people to marry.

The government forcibly married people who often had never met, often in mass ceremonies under the threat of prison, torture or death. They were then were forced to spend the night together in a designated hut and perscribed that they had sex. Party cadres often assisted husbands rape their wives if they refused to have sex. It is unknown exactly how widespread the practice was but it is believed to have affected every social group.

I am not able to post links but you can search: "Khmer rouge forced marriage" in Google for results.

 

[0x0005D0]

Interesting that both you and the article neglect to mention that it was a Nigerian expat/drug dealer who committed the crime.

 

[AsianActivist]

Interesting that both you and the article neglect to mention that it was a Nigerian expat/drug dealer who committed the crime.

The fact that you're more concerned about the race of the rapist than the actual rape really says a lot about your ethics. And you're wrong. The rapist was a Korean. What is more likely, that given that all races are equally likely to commit crime (a known fact), that in a country which is 98% Korean, the rapist was a Korean or some other ethnicity. You can find Ms. Mattner's gofundme account and it says NOTHING about the race. Why do you assume that it was a black person when they are an infinitesmally small portion of the population of Korea?

Even if it was a non-Korean that did it only means that Korea is not doing a good job accomodating foreigners and making them feel welcome in society.