Blood of teenager is drained in 'manga' killing

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Kim Jeong was kidnapped and beaten to death after she called one of her girl attackers ‘slutty’ on the internet.

The gang and their boyfriends hung her upside down to drain her blood in the manner of a violent manga film.

Her body was then dumped in the Han River, in the South Korean capital of Seoul, after they took it in a taxi wrapped in blankets.

Six teenagers are now facing life behind bars, according to police who described the killing as ‘horrendous and astonishing’.

Manga are comic strips or cartoon films originating in Japan and drawn in a distinctive style. The adult versions of the comics are extremely popular in the Far East and often contain scenes of girls and women being raped and tortured.

Japanese police investigating the murder of Briton Lindsay Hawker in 2007 found piles of manga cartoon books in the main suspect’s flat, leading to speculation that he was trying to copy a grisly murder story from one of the books.


http://www.metro.co.uk/news/832555-bloo ... ga-killing
 
wildly inaccurate

manga does not 'often contain scenes of women being raped and tortured', that's more going into Hentai territory, an outsider is merely lumping it all into one thing
 
Here we go, haven't had one of these in a while.

Compare that version, to this one:
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/ ... id=2922220

Police said the teens did not intend to kill Kim and, after she died, enlisted help from Lee, the boyfriend of one of the gang members. He allegedly suggested they drain Kim’s blood, telling them that he’d gotten the idea from “Case Closed,” a popular manga detective series.
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Case Closed? It's like saying "They got their idea from CSI, so all crime shows are bad"
 
Makes sense this would be a metro article :roll:

While my sympathies go out to the victim and their family, and I do think this is indeed 'horrendous', I'll never have any support for the kind of viewpoint being taken here. People will always do bad things or find ways to emulate the nastier aspects of literature, film, comics and manga in reality. Rape and torture isn't that uncommon in western media either, but as with that it's just one aspect. Responsibility for the crime will always be with the perpetrator, where they might draw inspiration from is largely irrelevant.
 
You just know some Korean journo at the Metro got a hold of this story and is loving the anti-Japan angle.

/controversial
 
It's funny how easy it is to subvert things, no?

Liberty of expression aside, media should be forced by law to be accurate. This would makes the world a better place, me thinks.
 
chaos said:
It's funny how easy it is to subvert things, no?

Liberty of expression aside, media should be forced by law to be accurate. This would makes the world a better place, me thinks.
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Someone has to sue them for being inacurate, don't think there's a regulator for newspapers.
Unless they libel someone that's not going to happen.

TV news does have to be accurate tho' as it's subject to a regulatory authority.
 
Reaper gI said:
chaos said:
It's funny how easy it is to subvert things, no?

Liberty of expression aside, media should be forced by law to be accurate. This would makes the world a better place, me thinks.
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Someone has to sue them for being inacurate, don't think there's a regulator for newspapers.
Unless they libel someone that's not going to happen.

TV news does have to be accurate tho' as it's subject to a regulatory authority.
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And then again, it still carries loads of bias, which is as bad as innacuracy :(
 
It's not harmful to a specific individual or organisation, if it was they could be sued out of existence.
Journalists like that at east know how to cover themselves when spouting total shite like that.
 
Well going by this 'you are what you eat' idealisation, I should be stealing cars, going out on murderous rampages, and worshipping the devil :roll:

They always lose sight of what actually happened in these cases, and end up focusing in on something, that, at the end of the day is completely irrelevant. People kill people, not music, not games, and not manga (Unless of course a hemophiliac gets a papercut).
 
This just reminds me of that horrible X-men fan-fiction piece I read one time (horrible as in grammar and what occured in it.) In brief, it involved the typical love triangle (Wolverine/Jean/Cyclops), some psychotic jeliousy, hardcore raping, decapitating of limbs... It was... bad. Certainly doubt anyone can copy this, but would be daunting if they get close to it.

As for the initial issue, even if the teenagers weren't aiming for murder, there was definately gross subject to malice involved in this stunt. It's not the same as pranking someone, so there's no excuse for them to not know whether it is deemed evil or not. Tacks on chairs and waterbombings are pranks, as they dont endanger the victim's health (even if a degree of pain is present, it's not a torture session).
When people take an idea from the entertainment media, it can indeed help inspire people - start a story, develop further ideas, visit places, learn a language/skill etc. But a book can't force a person to think something is ok or to act upon it.

Finally, it really is a stupid reason to cause such extreme agony as to slowly drain someone. People gossip and slag off each other all the time, so they should of been more mature than this. I do ponder what can make not just one idividual, but a whole group/gang get together and do something like this. I would of thought one person would at least question the morality of this.
 
umm i totally don't recall any blood-draining killings happening in manga/anime that were like that.

The nearest I could equate it to would be the Blue Sonnet manga.
 
cercia said:
umm i totally don't recall any blood-draining killings happening in manga/anime that were like that.

The nearest I could equate it to would be the Blue Sonnet manga.
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They got the idea for drining hte blood to make the body lighter from Detective Conan. Hardly a violent manga and the concept exists in the Dexter series as well in its first season.
 
I'm still trying to find the link between Manga and what hapened to the victim. The media could have replaced the word "manga" in the article with "Saw 5" and it would be just the same
 
Will-O'-The-Wisp said:
I'm still trying to find the link between Manga and what hapened to the victim. The media could have replaced the word "manga" in the article with "Saw 5" and it would be just the same
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In the second article the accused said he took the idea from a Detective Conan story.
 
“[the female gang member]'s parents were away for more than a month,” said an officer. “The family and society’s negligence led to this outrageously hideous crime.”
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At least the Korean paper got it right. Shame the Metro missed, or ignored, this point. :roll:
 
Most will either stare at only the articles featuring interesting pictures, or else forego the acquisition of a paper for themselves and read over others' shoulders. To save precious trees, I did the latter.
 
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