omonatheydid | Murder suspect admits he is a misogynist

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The man held on charges of murdering a 23-year-old woman told the police that the crime was motivated by his hatred for women.

The man is suspected of killing the victim, with whom he had no prior contact, in Gangnam on Tuesday night.

The suspect has since told the police that he committed the crime because he “hated women for belittling him.”

Seoul Seocho police said the victim had been drinking at a bar on the first floor of a four-story building located between Gangnam Subway Station (line No. 2) and Sinnonhyeon Subway Station (line No. 9). She was killed in the bathroom halfway up the staircase from the restaurant leading to a karaoke on the second floor.

The victim’s boyfriend discovered her bloodied body collapsed on the bathroom floor. She had been stabbed three to four times on the left side of her chest.

Based on the surveillance video, the police arrested a 34-year-old man surnamed Kim who worked as a part-time waiter at a nearby restaurant.

Kim was recorded entering the bathroom before the victim and nonchalantly leaving.

The police caught Kim as he turned up at the restaurant he works in, wearing the same clothes from the night before and with a 32.5 centimeter-length knife inside his pants pocket. The weapon was from the restaurant kitchen.

Kim admitted his crime and told the police that he did not personally know the victim but that he hated women for ignoring him. He said he took out the knife with malicious intentions.

The police are investigating whether he intended to sexually assault her.

There’s big big problems right now in Korea against Korean women. First, the news outlets were not reporting this incident or gave it absurd titles such as “woman killed by man dreaming to become a pastor” or “woman found dead by boyfriend in public bathroom” and didn’t call it a male crime against women. Second, men reacted to this on these articles with “that’s why women shouldn’t be out at night” or “what was she doing at that bar” or “women have to be careful” or “maybe the man had his reasons”, “women should be nicer”…

Outrageous, outrageous comments.

This isn’t the first time this has happened either. There was another murder in this area just a year ago. Women have always been blamed for existing for their own murders there.

There was also hastags created to divert attention from the man’s attitude “#bathroomgirl” to which Korean twitter reacted with “#gangnamMurderMAN” and “#isurvived” because it could have been anyone this guy murdered.

He had waited for over an hour at a woman’s bathroom with a knife, waiting for a woman to murder. She didn’t even know him.

DON’T TELL WOMEN AND GIRLS TO BE CAREFUL. TELL MEN TO NOT MURDER WOMEN. 남자는 기가 죽기만 여자는 죽는다.

source: Korean Herald 1, skimcasual 1

My friend, who is currently living in Korea, sent me a link to this article in the Korean Herald and I thought I would share. I'm feeling sick to my stomach right now...