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Why did Seon-ah choose to kill herself?
SBS’ ‘I Want to Know That’ (hereinafter referred to as ‘G-R’), which aired on the 14th, tracked a case of sexual exploitation using a part-time job interview as bait with the subtitle ‘A strange interview with Crayon Shin-chan – Why did 20-year-old Suna choose death?’ .
Last May, 20-year-old Seon-ah fell from an apartment in Busan. Having just graduated from high school this year, he made an extreme choice after leaving early from the college he was attending.
What on earth happened to Suna, who was so responsible and had excellent grades that she even became the president of her school during her school days?
After Sun-ah died, no suicide note or clues suggesting death were found in Sun-ah’s room. Additionally, the phone had been completely reset and all contents were erased.
Suna grew up in a harmonious family and had good social relationships. As a result, his family and friends wondered why he chose to die. However, he hears a shocking story from his friends who visited his funeral.
Sun-ah’s friends said that on the day of her death, Sun-a went to an obstetrician and gynecologist and was diagnosed with a sexually transmitted disease. About a month before her death, Suna was looking for a weekend job to ease the burden on her parents.
While she was looking for a job after uploading her resume to a brokerage site, a man contacted her saying he was looking for a general manager at a study cafe, so Seona immediately went for an interview at the study cafe. However, Sun-ah was sexually assaulted by a man who was interviewing her, and as a result, she contracted a sexually transmitted disease.
The man who called Seona in for an interview said that he ran several stores and took her somewhere. There were iron bars and doors, and there was a sofa and bed in the room. There, Seon-ah was sexually assaulted by the man who interviewed her.
And it was shocking to discover that two other men were blocking the door at the scene.
After making inquiries, the production team met with informants who said that they had posted their resumes on the same brokerage site as Suna and were contacted by a man who offered them the position of general manager at a study cafe. The informants were also offered to change jobs, saying that there was a better part-time job like Suna’s.
The production team also confirmed that the man who sexually assaulted Sun-ah, the so-called ‘Crayon Man’, had conducted interviews with about 200 women in their early 20s at B Study Cafe for at least six months.
Currently, Crayon Shin-chan is claiming that he had nothing to do with Suna’s death and that the sexual assault was consensual. And his close associates were in the same position about this. Additionally, a close associate of Jjanggu Man claimed that Jjanggu Man has never contracted a sexually transmitted disease, and that Suna contracted an STD at a kissing room introduced by Jjanggu Man, and that it was the fault of the owner of the place.
Regarding Mr. Crayon Man’s sexually transmitted disease test strip, the expert expressed regret, saying, “The sexually transmitted disease in question is a disease that is difficult to determine through a urine test, but the test was conducted only through a urine test.” An accurate determination is only possible through a PCR test or blood test. However, it was revealed that Crayon Shin-chan was refusing the police’s request for inspection.
In response, Crayon Shin-chan attracted attention by raising his voice and saying that just because he is a suspect, he does not necessarily have to comply with the police’s demands.
Among the women sexually exploited by Crayon Shin-chan, there were two minors. Crayon Shin-chan took minors to an officetel, had sex with them, and gave them car expenses and pocket money. As a result, he was indicted on charges of violating the Act on the Protection of Children and Adolescents from Sex.
The owner of a kissing room in the Busan area, who said he had to stop operating his kissing room due to the Jjanggu Man incident, said that Jjanggu Man is making a name for himself after being released from prison. A person who arranges prostitution for men who purchase prostitution is a wari, and a person who introduces prostitutes to the business owner and collects the referral fee is a wari, and Jjanggu Man is a wari. He also added that the claim by kissing room owners that they do not know Jjanggu Man is false.
He also said that many waris use part-time job brokerage sites to find women to work in kissing rooms. In addition, Jjanggu Man pointed out that Jjanggu Man’s behavior was a deviant behavior, saying that he sexually assaulted women who worked at the kissing room for the first time and gradually tamed them, using the education room as a pretext, causing damage to other businesses. .
However, an expert said that luring young women with lies and sexually assaulting them is a bait and trap that sex traffickers have used for a long time for continuous sexual exploitation. “It could happen,” he warned.
He also speculated that there would be more victims of sexual assault under the pretext of an education room, and analyzed, “This crime is a crime committed with careful planning, a habitual and professional crime.”
He also lamented the reality, saying, “Now that the victim has died, we are in the spotlight of the media and are actively investigating, but what would it have been like if the victim had not died? There are still many similar businesses going on today.”
The production team met with the reporting team that had undercoverly covered this incident before Sun-ah’s death, and released the audio from the undercover reporting. The owner of the business talked to the reporters who came for the interview about the work done in the kissing room as if it were insignificant, and then suggested that they meet the customer right away on the day of the interview. And when he tried to deny it, he put pressure on her.
The reporter who covered the story at the time expressed regret, saying, “I thought that even if I died here, no one would know. And I thought that I could have done the same, so it was so sad,” and “I tried to spread the word about this, but in the end, not much changed.”
The production team asked officials from part-time job brokerage sites why it was difficult to protect job seekers. In response, an official said, “It’s called the balloon effect, so even if we only strengthen it, potential criminals can go to other brokerage apps and do similar things again even if we block them by restricting their use. This is a situation that requires a joint response from the industry, so we are preparing to respond together.” “I’m doing it,” he explained.
In addition, a person in charge of the Employment Service Policy Department of the Ministry of Employment and Labor said, “Our official position is that it should not happen again. So, we approach it from a systemic perspective, but job seekers also need to know a little about this. That is why job seekers are posted with main banners and things like this on brokerage sites. “It is written down so that you can understand it,” he added.
He also said that it is difficult to ask companies to strengthen protection measures to protect job seekers due to their profit structure.
Experts warned that further damage cannot be prevented simply by urging private companies to make preventive efforts, and that only by imposing strong sanctions can we come a little closer to solving the problem.
Crayon Shin-chan is currently being indicted not for rape, but for adultery by force. In response, women’s groups in the Busan region held a press conference in protest, urging the perpetrators to be severely punished and a special rape and death penalty applied.
And the school eunsa, who found out about Sun-ah’s tragedy late, expressed her mixed feelings, saying, “I hope that people who do bad things will be severely punished and those who haven’t done bad things will be able to live well. That’s all I can think about right now.”
As a result of the investigation, it was revealed that the number of part-time women in their 20s approached by Jjanggu Man increased from over 200 to over 1,000. Accordingly, the broadcast called for additional investigations to be conducted to sweep up similar prostitution establishments, such as kissing rooms, in the Busan area to prevent sexual exploitation under the name of education rooms from continuing.
In addition, it attracted attention by urging the relevant authorities to take stronger measures to prevent part-time job sites and online job search sites from becoming search tools for prostitution business owners.
And I hope that the special crime of rape, rather than adultery by force, will be applied to Mr. Jang-gu Man so that he can be severely punished. In addition, I hope that the investigative authorities will pay more attention so that the investigation into whether Mr. Jjang-gu Man and the owner of the kissing room are accomplices can be conducted as soon as possible. I insisted on asking for it.
(SBS Entertainment News Editor Kim Hyo-jeong)
