Murder of Yun Geum-i

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Yun Geum-i
Murder of Yun Geum-i
Hangul
윤금이
Hanja
尹今伊
Revised RomanizationYun Geum-i
McCune–ReischauerYun Kŭmi
IPA[jun kɯm.i]

The murder of Yun Geum-i was a murder case on October 28, 1992 at a camptown in Dongducheon, Gyeonggi, South Korea. Bar employee Yun Geum-i, then 26 years old, was murdered by private Kenneth Markle (Kenneth Lee Markle III), a member of the USFK 2nd Division. This case raised the issue of the U.S. Forces in South Korea as a social problem, and became an opportunity to start an earnest revision movement to U.S.–South Korea Status of Forces Agreement. Private Markle was sentenced to 15 years and he was imprisoned in Cheonan prison on May 17, 1994. He was released on parole on August 14, 2006, and deported to the United States.

Murder and aftermath[]

In 1992, Yun Geum-i, a camptown sex worker in Dongducheon, was brutally killed by U.S. servicemen.[1][2][3] Yun was found dead with a bottle stuffed into her vagina and an umbrella into her anus.[4] In August 1993, the U.S. government compensated the victim's family with about US$72,000.[5] However, the murder of a prostitute did not itself spark a national debate about the prerogatives of the U.S. forces; on the other hand, the 1995 rape of a twelve-year-old Okinawan schoolgirl by three American servicemen (one U.S. Navy Seaman, two U.S. Marines) elicited much public outrage and brought wider attention to military-related violence against women.[3]

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References[]

  1. ^ Cho, Grace M. (2008). Haunting the Korean Diaspora: Shame, Secrecy, and the Forgotten War. University of Minnesota Press. p. 115. ISBN 978-0816652747. In October 1992, a camptown sex worker named Yun Geum-I was brutally murdered by one of her clients during a dispute.
  2. ^ Moon, Gwang-lip (2011-09-30). "After soldier held for rape, U.S. vows assistance". JoongAng Ilbo. Archived from the original on 2013-06-19. Retrieved 2013-04-12.
  3. ^ a b Moon, Katharine. "Military Prostitution and the U.S. Military in Asia". . Retrieved 2013-05-02.
  4. ^ McHugh, Kathleen (2005). South Korean Golden Age Melodrama: Gender, Genre, And National Cinema. Wayne State University Press. p. 133. ISBN 978-0-8143-3253-5.
  5. ^ "U.S. soldier free after brutal 1992 murder". The Hankyoreh. 2006-10-28. Retrieved 2013-04-15.
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