![]() ![]() The cabinet has vowed to inspect all facilities for the disabled and minors to ferret out teachers with records of sexual abuse. The film has tapped into widespread anger over official reluctance to take sexual crimes seriously, and over how justice is served, or not, in South Korea. 22, 4.4 million people, including President Lee Myung-bak - nearly a 10th of the country’s population - have seen it. Now, a film based on that novel - “Dogani,” or “The Crucible” - has roiled South Korea. Except that the intern’s blog inspired a best-selling author, Gong Ji-young, to write a novel based on the sexual assaults at the Inhwa School for the hearing impaired, the school’s attempts to conceal the abuses and the victims’ struggle for justice. The man was forcibly removed for disrupting the courtroom. “It was clear that the man was shouting, ‘This is wrong! This is wrong!”’ Lee Ji-won, a newspaper intern, wrote in her blog later that day under the subject line, “I saw the foul underside of our society.” When the verdict came, an outraged middle-aged man, also deaf, let out an incomprehensible cry from the galley, signaling frantically with sign language. SEOUL - At an appeals court in the southwestern city of Gwangju in 2006, a school official was convicted of raping a 13-year-old deaf girl and sentenced to one year in prison. ![]()
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