Park Ji-hyun "Sindang Station Incident, a Tragedy Caused by Distorted Male Culture and Wrongful Discriminatory Consciousness"

Democratic Party City Councilor Who Committed 'Secondary Harm' Should Be Expelled
Kim Hyun-sook's Remarks Denounced as "Crimes Against Women"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jun-yi] Former Emergency Committee Chair of the Democratic Party, Park Ji-hyun, criticized the Sin-dang Station murder case as "a tragedy caused by a very misguided male culture of 'If you like someone, you can follow them,' and a wrongful discriminatory consciousness that women are not on equal footing with men."

On the 19th, Park appeared on KBS Radio's 'Choi Kyung-young's Strongest Current Affairs' and stated, "In fact, many women feel even more wronged, angry, and frustrated because this was an incident that could have truly been prevented."

She said, "The rate of stalking cases escalating to murder has been too high to consider this an isolated incident. Since the Stalking Punishment Act came into effect on October 2 last year, over 22,000 reports have been filed to my knowledge. However, even after reporting and re-reporting stalking, the rate of arrest and investigation of perpetrators was less than 3%."

She added, "It is as if the police, prosecutors, and courts handed a knife to the perpetrator. They failed to protect the victims and instead sided with the perpetrators."

Regarding Minister of Gender Equality and Family Kim Hyun-sook's remark that it is "not seen as a misogynistic crime," Park said, "I want to hear in detail why it is not seen that way. This is inevitably a crime targeting women, involving illegal filming, stalking, and escalating to murder."

She continued, "The perpetrator's distorted perception led to murder, thinking that if someone does not like me, I can kill them. This is the belief that women are subordinate appendages to men, and crimes committed with this mindset are misogynistic crimes."

Regarding the controversial secondary victim-blaming remarks by Democratic Party city councilor Lee Sang-hoon, who said, "The male employee responded because he liked her but was rejected," Park said, "It is frightening if this reflects the average perception of the privileged age group currently holding power. If he does not resign voluntarily, the party must swiftly expel him."

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