I say by 44 different people.
Yeah, yeah. And then the first one was sexualizing.
The victim, basically.
The victim, yes. A 14-year-old girl that has been like, this is crazy.
Yeah. Yeah, so she posts this and this has been proven to be true.
These detectives were eventually replaced by another investigative team, but really nothing gets better.
Even when Hannah is forced to come to the police station to give yet another statement where the police just blow cigarettes, smoke into her face for hours at a time, forcing her to repeat the same traumatizing statements, and then asking her if she wagged her tail first.
These are just a few things that went wrong during the investigation, just a few violations of human rights.
Hannah would come and all the perpetrators' parents would be waiting outside the police station for her, grabbing at her shirt while she's trying to get inside, screaming at her that she's ruining their son's lives.
Parents are tracking down Hannah to her house, her relative's house afterwards, accusing her of lying, accusing her of wanting to take down their precious babies.
This little 14-year-old girl, they would look at that in the eye and tell her, you will never live well.
Let's see how you survive after ruining my son's life.
We will never leave you alone.
One of the perpetrator's mothers even came and called Hannah a gold ticker.
Additionally, when victims have to do a police line-up, there's usually a room with a one-way glass window.
We've seen it all, the documentaries, the movies, the TV shows, where the victim can see all the people lined up, but they cannot see the victim through the glass.
The police station, Hannah went to, had one of those rooms.
They called it the crime identification room, but it could only fit eight perpetrators out once.
So they opted to just not use it at all.
They just rounded up all the accused perpetrators in the police station, out in the open, dragged Hannah in front of them all at once and made her ID the perpetrators.
The police, which is yell at her, who did the beating?
Just point out which one did the beating.
Okay, and who did this part right here where you said that they touched this area?
Who did this very graphic detail you told us?
Who watched, who touched, come on, hurry, point them out.
They would force her to point at the perpetrator in question.
They deemed it would not be considered special conditions, so they were just let go.
That part is crazy. Well, I mean, it's already crazy that they were let go for no special conditions, but also the part is even more frustrating.
Yeah, maybe they themselves weren't holding a pipe forcibly beating Hannah, but their best friend was in the room holding a pipe, or their best friend was right outside the room holding a pipe.
The implication being, it doesn't matter if Hannah says no, if she tries to fight back hard enough, she's gonna get hit with the pipe.
For those reasons, about 20 perpetrators are just sent home with a firm warning.
Some of them got community service, but nothing to report back on.
That leaves 14. Now, 13 of them are not tried, because in South Korea, back then, the crime of SA was considered a civil matter, meaning the victim had to press charges for someone to be taken to court for SA, but that means the burden of proof, everything relies heavily on the victim, and that's already so bad, but it gets worse.
Hannah had said about some perpetrators, she used the language, quote, blank, so and so, harmed me at this time.
The police stated that is a statement of fact, not an accusation, meaning she does not want to press charges on this person.
What? See, I don't understand.
Like, anybody who hears this, see how fucked up this is.
Why is everyone arguing against her from the judge to the police to everyone?
You think it because they have power, they have influence or?
Yes, so some, it's, I think it's a combination of everything, and that's what a lot of netizens think.
Some of the perpetrators' parents were wealthy.
Now, to disrupt 44 families in a small town, and these perpetrators' parents are nasty.
They're a viola. I haven't seen a single one.
That's like, you know what?
I fucked up raising my kid, and I am going to help for it, and I will repay the victim back with my life, and I will try so hard, not a single one.
So I think they were putting a lot of pressure on the book, because it's the first time it's always the hardest time.
But still, it's just crazy.
Yeah, it's ridiculous.
Now, in 2014, a movie titled Han Gong-Joo is released in South Korea.
Now, interestingly enough, it's an independent film with a very low budget, no famous directors, no famous actors involved without much marketing, and the movie manages to screen an over 200 theaters nationwide, which is a big deal.
It went on to become one of the most successful independent films, which is very difficult.
The film itself has a very tragic ending, but everyone walks out of that theater in 2014, almost comforting themselves.
It was based on this case.
When they're comforting themselves, well, I'm sure in the real life case, she's doing okay, right?
And we haven't heard any news that she passed.
Right, there would be news if she passed in real life.
So I'm sure she's fine. Yeah.
Initially, everyone went to this movie to get closure on this case that had the whole nation angry for the past decade and riled up, but in the end, the closure was depressing.
The movie's end is just depressing.
So everyone would post online, I'm sure the real victim is healed and is moving on, right?
That's all we can hope for and pray for.
That's not what was happening.
Hannah says she has not lived a day without medication because it is impossible.
She and her sister were unable to graduate high school.
They have been through psychiatric treatments since 2004.
For the past 20 years, they cannot stop meditating.
Hannah says she feels, quote, I still feel like my life has stopped in 2004.
Hannah used to be class president, but now she has been diagnosed with an intellectual disability in 2019 from the excessive trauma.
The diagnosis is considered, quote, severe disability levels.
She hasn't been able to hold down a job.
She really only is able to get part-time jobs doing manual labor here and there.
Unlike Hannah though, the perpetrators are living well.
People who know the perpetrators personally would post online and there would be another rounds.
Like randomly, there would be rounds online of people saying, angry and frustrated to be involved in such a bad incident.
I didn't meet the victim many times and I didn't have sexual relations with her.
He does admit that he was one of the perpetrators present at the tennis court when she was assayed, but he claims he did not hold her arms and legs down while punching her to assay her, which is oddly specific.
He continues, the victim kept saying we had sexual relations so I unfairly went to a juvenile detention center for a little bit.
He states that at most, he should be charged for is attempted our word.
He says, the victim is also a problematic child.
The way she was threatened to come to Mediang, that's not true.
It should have been fine if the victim didn't contact us first, but she called our friends here and there and saying she's in Mediang, let's meet up and we ended up drinking.
You're kidding me. And we're also guys.
So out of curiosity, the incident occurred.
Wait, this is happening right now.
In 2024, he's basically stating that this whole gang essay for a prolonged period of time happened out of curiosity.
We're also guys. So out of curiosity, the incident happened.
I'm just sorry for causing national shame and making such a bad incident appear in the media because of my Mediang friends.
And I don't believe that she ever tried to self exit.
If you look at the situations where we met with the victims, she's not the kind of girl to try to self exit.
She came to Mediang on her own.
I don't treat women badly like this.
It seems like netizens are viewing us negatively just because we are men.
Wait, do we know what he looks like?
Yeah. There's a face video or face.
Holy, I cannot believe this.
In a case like this, he has the audacity to say, it seems like netizens are viewing us too negatively just because we are men.
No, you got off with no punishment because you are men.
What do you mean? The next perpetrator is Beck married and with a son.
He has said to have been running a honey online shop with his wife selling honey, literally honey, that has now gone private.
It seems that his wife had no idea and it's a ledge that his mother-in-law collapsed when she found out the news.
He gets statements from friends of like, no, trust me, like this person doesn't.
But these reactions of like, I am wronged.
Yeah. I also feel like, you know, you say there were like 44 of them and then there's like 100 people who's somewhat involved for a small town like Miran.
These people are probably all publicly known for the whole town.
Like everybody probably can pinpoint who's who.
Like they're all from the same area.
So that's another point that a lot of netizens have pointed out is that there have been some mistakes of people being associated with perpetrators.
Like, oh, this is a girlfriend of the perpetrator and then she would just get dog piled on and then turns out she's not dating a perpetrator.
Right, so those incidents have happened and it's really dangerous and so bad.
I do not condone that, right?
But with these main perpetrators that have been exposed so far, a lot of netizens are saying that these people's identities weren't necessarily hidden hidden.
Like everyone in Mediang that went to that school knew what was going on, like knew these names, knew they were involved, and had they really pinpointed a wrong person, they would have come forward to help exonerate their name.
So that's their argument I don't know.
Let me know in the comments what you think.
But going down, there is another perpetrator, Joe, who was exposed to have changed his name and gotten facial plastic surgery.
He has been suing netizens who leave malicious comments exposing him, but get this.
The lawyer that is representing him is the former presiding judge over the Mediang case.
Judge Huang Qingyul retired as a judge has gone into private practice where he is now representing accused criminals and he is now helping one of the Mediang accused perpetrators to sue for defamation.
Wow. Allegedly. But you say this guy had plastic surgery, name change.
Yeah. That is. Now, some of the perpetrators are actually trying to reach out to the victim, demanding that she help make all this go away.
Which why does that happen so frequently?
Why does the responsibility get put on the victims again?
As if she's responsible for any of this, making her feel like if she doesn't help the perpetrator something bad will happen.
One of them sent Hannah a message.
This situation has gotten so big that some of these guys are out here losing their jobs and you're just staying quiet.
Some of the perpetrators didn't even directly participate in the essay.
You should at least confirm that and do something.
Why are you staying quiet?
What is this? One of the perpetrators.
Undisclosed, yeah. Wow.
That kind of request should honestly, if I ran my own country, I was going to say death.
But it should result in solitary confinement right off the bat.
Like you want to be dumb?
Be dumb by yourself. We don't have to witness that.
Where you cannot be hurt.
Sure, you can write a letter to the victim, trash.
Just write all day until your hand gets bloody.
I don't care. That's crazy.
Some of them are just saying stuff out of their buttoles that happen to be located on their face.
All I did was give her bus money and buy her food.
I feel so wrong for being accused.
But what's even crazier is how can we assume that the perpetrators actually feel it anywhere more?
I mean, look at the way their parents acted when they were caught committing the crimes.
And even now, one of the perpetrator's parents were interviewed later on.
And she screamed. It's been so long since the incident ended.
We settled everything back then and the kids went through a lot.
They're living well now.
So why keep bringing this up?
There's so many people living quietly now in this country who have committed even worse crimes.
At the time, these kids were high schoolers.
They made a momentary mistake.
So what do you want us to do about it now?
Another mom was questioned and she said, no, my son didn't even touch that girl.
There is evidence he filmed videos of it.
He didn't do that. He ended up just like this for being present at the scene.
The lack of neurons firing in these parents' brains needs to be studied.
One of the family members, even just states, I feel like what's known to the world and what actually happened to them.
