Seongnam 'Taepyeong-dong Mother and Daughter' Candlelight Vigil to Be Held on the 14th

'판박이' Case Similar to Suwon Three Women Incident Due to Financial Hardship, 5 Months After Last August

Seongnam City Hall

[Asia Economy (Seongnam) = Reporter Lee Young-gyu] A rally to commemorate a mother and daughter who took extreme measures last month due to financial hardship will be held in Seongnam, Gyeonggi Province.

Seongnam Participatory Citizenship Solidarity announced on the 13th that, together with Public Medical Seongnam Citizens' Action, Seongnam Education Hope Network, Open Church, and Seongnam 4·16 Solidarity, it will hold the "Seongnam Taepyeong-dong Mother and Daughter Candlelight Memorial" at 7 p.m. on the 14th near Seongnam Medical Center at Sutgol Cultural Park.

A mother in her 70s and her daughter in her 40s, living in Taepyeong-dong, Seongnam, took extreme measures on the 9th of last month after suffering from financial difficulties. In their farewell letter, they wrote, "We accumulated a lot of debt while running a business," and "We are sorry and deeply sorry for causing trouble."

The memorial service on that day will be conducted by Park Jae-man, Secretary General of Public Medical Seongnam Citizens' Action, and will proceed in the order of silent prayer, flower offering, memorial performance (Heoteun Dance), and reading of memorial poems.

Earlier, in August last year, a 60-year-old woman A and her two daughters in their 40s were found dead in a multi-family house in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province. A farewell letter stating "Life was difficult due to chronic illness and debt" was found at the scene. A had been diagnosed with cancer and was undergoing treatment. Her two daughters suffered from rare incurable diseases. However, they were classified as individuals with the sole variable of "health insurance premium arrears" in the government's welfare blind spot detection system and were excluded from the list of households in crisis. Suwon City was also unaware of their residence.

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