#381: 44 HS Boys FREED After Gang SA Of 14 Yr Old Girl - Now Korean YouTubers Are Doxxing Them

28:59Hannah even said, they're honestly more like school police. They're violent, they're terrifying, capable of dangerous things. They beat up other students, robbed them for no reason, but they're not like an organ. They're not the mafia. But that doesn't sound as good, right? Taking down 44 school bullies, taking down 44 gang members. That's good. Later, when criticized about letting the victim's information out so easily, one former police official working the case said, we didn't know at the time how big this case was going to be. We just thought, well, the reporters will handle it properly. To be honest, we thought if it's such a big case, the reporters will change the names.

29:35Reporters always change the names, don't they? The police honestly just did not care. They wanted to be applauded for their tremendous arrest. It also came out that the investigating officers were up for a promotion. They just needed a big case, a big pat on the back to make it happen. This is their big case. They don't care about the victims. They just want everyone to applaud them for arresting 44 gang members. Hannah said she thought, why did we report this to the police for no reason and make our lives so difficult? Hannah's aunt would later be interviewed and she screams, how could they do this to our kids?

30:13They're killing our kids twice. They might as well have told the girls to just leave Korea altogether. Soon after the headlines of the Miryang cases posted, all everyone can write about, talk about online is the Miryang case. Everybody knows about it. An online forum post starts making its rounds around that time. It's written by a hostess from a hostess club who witnessed something so alarming, vile, disgusting that she can't even keep it in anymore. She wants to throw up. It's not like she can go to the police with this information. So she's coming online. She said she was working at the hostess bar one night.

30:47She passed by this table. She recognized the police officer as the ones that were working the media on case because their faces and names are everywhere right now. and this is all anyone can talk about. She was pausing and doing some work at that table and she watches one of the detectives put his hand on the thigh of the hostess that he's sitting next to. So right now it's very morally gray, right? But not that alarming. But he leans in and he tells this hostess, you look like Hannah, the victim of the case we're working on. With his hand on her thigh. It gets worse. The hostess said she froze.

31:24she didn't even know how to react she couldn't believe her ears in that moment she said what do you mean another detective sits next to him and looks disgusted so she's thinking good he's gonna say something and shut down this detective shut his colleague up but he turns his head and says don't bring hannah up disgusting you're gonna ruin my appetite he's not saying hey you are disgusting for bringing hannah up right now he's saying the mention of hannah's name is disgusting and I'm trying to enjoy myself. He says, you're ruining my appetite. The further implication being he's disgusted not by what happened to her, but by her.

32:04This is crazy. The further implication being he's disgusted that a little 14 year old girl had been essayed by 44 different people. Yeah, yeah. And then the first one was sexualizing. The victim, basically. The victim, yeah. 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 cigarette 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.

32:48These are just a few things that went wrong during the investigation. just a few violations of human rights. Hannah would come and all the perpetrator's 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 her dead in the eye and tell her, you will never live well. Let's see how you survive after ruining my son's life.

33:16We will never leave you alone. One of the perpetrator's mothers even came and called Hannah a gold digger. Additionally, when victims have to do a police lineup, there's usually a room with a one-way glass window. We've seen it in 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 at 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.

33:54The police would just yell at her. Who did the beating? Just point out which one did the beating. OK, 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, and then the perpetrators would essentially try to lunge at her screaming, when the fuck did I ever do that the perpetrators are just straight up cursing her out at the police station and the police are doing nothing to stop it I mean they're giving the half ass calm down sit down honestly these like someone need to leak these police officers name they are getting leaked but they don't care yeah that is crazy they still have their jobs they don't care they're retired the perpetrators would even find Hannah's aunt's house show up at the door screaming do you know who I am?

34:47I'm a gang member. I'm going to gouge your eyes out. Whenever Hannah got scared and she hesitated, the authorities would get impatient with her. Come on, quickly, just say it. But at the same time, she's being rushed. She knows that if she makes even the smallest mistake or says something incorrectly because she's being rushed, they would accuse her of lying about the whole thing. Additionally, the police's way of getting the victim justice was to force all 44 perpetrators on their knees in the police station and force them to apologize to hannah which that's more terrifying and traumatizing than it is cathartic like that's not even a real apology first of all i think the terror of just seeing them all collectively in one big group forced to do something that they clearly don't want to do and the fear of their retaliation is likely overpowering and i also don't think that their half-assed forced sorry is doing anything this is something i think korean parents make you do if you accidentally call someone an ugly duckling i don't know like this is so bizarre this is not yeah what do you who cares about that like yeah it's we want to see some real like consequences they're treating it as if it's a playground dispute exactly the perpetrators even accused the police of targeting them just because they have tattoos they stated that they were being discriminated against who is the perpetrators the r-worders yeah they're like you just are accusing me of being a gang member because i have a tattoo this is discrimination and i won't stand for it.

36:13For some of the perpetrators, the police even asked the victim to sit down in front of them and go through her story again of what happened as if they're trying to get both sides, both stories at the same time. The police also made the whole case about gangs. They kept arguing about the perpetrators, which gangs they're a part of, or which district the gangs formed in. At one point, this case became more so of, are the guys in a gang or not, rather than the actual crime. The sister's aunt demanded female investigators to handle the case or at least be the ones to take the girl's statements. But the police did not care and rejected her request.

36:51In fact, at one point, so much media attention had been gathering outside of the police station because the police leaked the whole case. The authorities wanted Hannah and her sister to be questioned inside of a motel room. A motel room like where the assaults first started, even if it didn't start in a motel room. That is crazy. The aunt fought back. She's screaming at the officers. How can you even interview minors at a motel? Eventually, they would be interviewed at the aunt's house, but that suggestion itself is out of this world. One officer even looked at Hannah and her sister and said, you're muddying the waters of Miryang.

37:30You know that? I'm from Miryang. Why are you doing this? Why are you giving my town a bad name? You're not even from here. So did you even meet up with them? I bet you were flirting with them online anyway. After all of this, Hannah is hospitalized for a full month for extensive physical injuries as well as psychological. During her hospital stay, she mentioned to her psychologist that every single time she's at a subway station, she just wants to jump. It's an overwhelming feeling. She can't even look at a train without every voice in her head telling her to do it. She has PTSD, panic disorders and eating disorders, severe depression.

38:11She's so confused on how something like this could happen that her brain is trying to rationalize it by convincing herself that she must have done something wrong in the process because things like this just shouldn't happen. So she should be at fault is what her brain is trying to convince her. The doctor also reports that Hannah just talked a lot about not wanting to be here. She was constantly crying and spoke heavily about wanting to do dangerous things. And eventually after a month, her dad comes in to pick her up, her dad and her other aunt. So not the one that called the police. That's her mom's sister.

38:47This is her dad's sister. She and her dad show up at the hospital and they're trying to take Tana home. They're rubbing her shoulders, telling the doctors that they're going to take care of her. If anyone can help her heal, it's going to be them. She needs to be at home to recover. Hannah's mom's fighting to keep her daughters, but technically she's not their legal guardian. She could not stop their father from taking them. The moment that Hannah gets in that car, her dad is shoving a pen in her hand. Just sign it. Sign what? She reads this paper. The statement reads, I, the victim, first met, insert name of R-worder, and the other oppas in Myriang.

39:25While it is true that he inflicted harm on me, the victim, I have been sufficiently compensated mentally and materially for the harm inflicted by the perpetrator. I, the victim, do not wish for the perpetrators to be punished, and I request the judge's leniency for the perpetrators to be released as soon as possible. The statement also reads that Hannah has a crush on the perpetrator in question, and quote, I'm worried about him, and I miss him, and I would like to see him soon. You're shitting me. Did that literally sold her out? While she was in the hospital for a month, the perpetrator's parents came to the dad and he was arranging deals.

40:04This is insane. He said, you give me cash and I'll have my daughter write a letter of leniency. One of the other reasons that her dad could convince her to sign the document, other than the fact that he has literally been physically violent with her for most of her life and she's terrified and she's in a weakened psychological state, is the fact that he's her guardian. I mean, technically he could basically sign it for her, but he tries to convince her. Listen, they really are remorseful. While you were in the hospital, they have been crying nonstop, just apologizing. And he convinces Hannah to sign for some of the perpetrators because those are the ones that paid him.

40:41Now, when these guys, these perpetrators, the ones that she signed the letter of leniency for, they come to apologize. Hannah said it's not what she expected. She genuinely thought that they felt remorse and they realized their actions were bad. But no, they were smirking. They were laughing. And she said, quote, I was really dumbfounded and shocked. Even after all of this, her dad forced her to go see one of the perpetrators at the detention center. She had no idea where she was being taken. The adults just told her to get in the car and that's it. Yeah. So the dad just kind of kidnapped her.

41:13Yes. To see one of the guys. Yes. For what reasons? So that she could write another letter and his attorney was there and they were dictating what letter to write. so she just was forced to write whatever they were barking at her

41:28and I think they wanted the proof that she went to go visit him yeah now 44 of them were I don't want to say taken to trial because it's not necessarily a trial but 44 of them were arrested for the Miriam case and the way that the whole justice system plays out with the 44 is out of this world. First of all, there were like three presiding judges that were handling this case. One of the judges had this age old argument, which is, well, you can't thread a moving needle. That was a quote that he says often, which means if a victim of essay is moving too much and is running away with all her might, you can't thread a moving needle.

42:14Like you cannot get essayed. Yeah, if you're moving and fighting back. So the judge is saying that she, it's her fault. Yeah. She wanted this to happen. Yes, like it's not SA because you can't thread a moving needle. There's no such thing as SA then. This is a judge. Yeah. Now, in the investigative reports that were handed over to the judge to read, a lot of the times when referring to the victim and her story, you read phrases like, she came to play. The victims were playing with the accused. While playing. Now, the word play sounds really in English, sounds like something that you would only apply to children, right?

42:52You know, while the children were playing, ABC happened. But in Korean, it's a bit complicated. So let's say I'm going to hang out with my friends. I would say, 엄마, 애들이랑 놀고 올게, which means I'm going to go play with the kids. It's like, that's the direct translation, but it basically means I'm going to go hang out with my friends. But you almost say it in an innocent way. Because the word play in this connotation of like, 엄마, I'm going to go play with my friends. It's almost like we're just literally going to giggle giggle around. It's not like I'm going to go to the movies. I'm going on a trip.

43:23It's like we're just going to mess around. We're just going to hang out, right? But play can also be used very negatively when it's referring to other children or in situations of like you might have fuckboys being like 놀자, which is like, come on, let's play, let's play. Right? So it can be used in different connotations. also there is something called which is a very bad word it's not a curse word but it's what parents will say about other people's children which means kids who only play and in that connotation the word play is not just like kids who like their friends too much it's kids who are drunk at PC bungs smoking cigarettes that are basically gangsters so there's a lot of different connotations you use but the only time it's really positive is honestly when it's between mom and children or like dad and children like like i'm gonna go play and hang out and i'll be back but when you use it for other people it can be considered a negative connotation yeah but it's non-stop the victim came to play with the accused while playing the victim wanted to play with the accused she came to miriam to play a lot of Koreans have pointed out how damaging that is to have an investigative reports about SA.

44:43The victim also expressed that the connotation behind the word just felt wrong. She said it felt like they're implying some sort of hidden meaning behind it. For example, the victim told authorities, the perpetrators filmed a video and threatened me over the phone saying if I didn't come down to Miryang right now, they'll upload the video online. In the court documents, it reads, the victim came to play in Miriam. In addition to the weird meaning of play here, the omitting of the circumstances and fear of the situation is so bizarre. The documents also include the words sexual intercourse frequently when it should be essay.

45:19And just everything. The victim is really only brought up in the context of the crime. There's no mention of how this is going to impact her future or what her life is going to be like now, now that she's become a victim of a prolonged violent traumatic crime. But in reference to the perpetrators, they are often spoken about with their futures connected in the same sentence, such as the perpetrators are about to enter college. The perpetrator is about to get a job. The perpetrator is doing A, B and C for their future. The perpetrator's futures are heavily weighed and the victim just went to play like that's what it feels like.

45:52initially the police sent 44 perpetrators to the prosecution for charges of gang essay assault and threats which would be categorized in south korea as essay with special conditions which is threat and assault but 34 of the 44 were not prosecuted the prosecutors get it and they're like let's throw out 34 of these cases why okay so 20 of those 34 were released because either their parents had paid Hannah's dad blood money, or they were found to not have used forced to essay Hannah, meaning they essayed Hannah, but they weren't holding an iron pipe. They essayed Hannah, but they didn't beat her.

46:32They 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. Yet 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 going to get hit with the pipe. For those reasons, about 20 perpetrators are just sent home with a firm warning.

47:06Some 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 they 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 vile I haven't seen a single one that's like you know what I fucked up raising my kid and I am going to hell 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 police Miriam the city of Miriam also kind of wanted it to quiet it down.

48:37They wanted that instant boost of like, we arrested so many people. And then afterwards they're like, okay, this is making our town look bad. We got to shut this down. And I also think that a lot of these people are just old men who truly believe that women deserve to be essayed. I don't know what else to say. Like, I don't even know how to rationalize their thought process. And I think that, um, they just care so much about these losers futures. I mean, they have no future. It's crazy, but they care so much about their futures. right right i see it so it's another one of those cases how could you let one girl ruin all these young boys future yeah when it's like okay yeah we can already point out everything wrong with that but people clearly think like that these people do and another thing that netizens korean netizens have been pointing out is this is just the same thing over and over again korea is a great land for perpetrators they care too much about the rehabilitation, the future of perpetrators.

49:36It doesn't make sense. Now, Hannah had used the language blank harmed me at that time. The police and prosecutors argued that is a statement of fact, not an accusation. So they believe that Hannah did not want to press charges. They stated that she should have said, I want them to be punished for this. Or I really, really didn't like that. Like they wanted her to vocalize word for word verbatim. She wanted to press charges. So for that reason, 13 cases are thrown out because her wording, they stipulated that the victim did not directly express to press charges against those perpetrators when discussing what they did.

50:13This has changed since then. Now SA is a criminal case, but yeah. Now the last one is not prosecuted because he committed a crime in a different region. He was going to be punished there for that specific crime. This is crazy. So does that mean if you run a red light in one county and commit murder in the other you don't get charged for murder you just have to go get your punishment for running that red light what yeah they're just like well he's already going for a different case so it's fine that doesn't even make sense like what is this a buy one get one for crime what do you mean the other 10 that are sent to juvenile court they don't receive any punishment they just get sent to juvenile court and they just get slaps on the wrist they get community service They don't do anything, essentially So they didn't go to prison?

51:01No, a few of them were held in detention for a little while Awaiting the court dates, but that's it And then, what, that's it? Were they all underage? Or what was it? Some of them were not underage So 18, 17 16, 15 Yeah, so a lot of them were not underage too Now the attorney for a few of the perpetrators even argued The decision to even refer the boys to a juvenile detention center is excessive. Why do they have to be detained while they're waiting? The attorney is asked, excessive? Yes, if the victim was really R-worded, would she have kept coming back to Miriam for a year? A lot of legal experts said, this is just not normal.

51:46I mean, even for how messed up the justice system can be, this is abnormal. The words that the judges even use are just extremely unusual. The fact that the perpetrators were not charged with any sort of CP-related crime is also mind-boggling, considering even the production of consensual adult explicit videos in South Korea is illegal. But instead, the judge working on the case said, the boys are addicted to watching violent explicit videos online. That's the problem. The problem does not lie within the boys. It lies within the fact that these videos are available to be seen. That's why Korea has banned these videos.

52:21That's why they committed these crimes. They were inspired and decided to act upon the videos they saw, stating that they are just immature minors with the possibility of rehabilitation. Additionally, on the court documents, the judge stated that they were going to be lenient on the perpetrators considering that they have futures to consider and the victim has since recovered from the shock and is doing well and living a peaceful life at school. Interestingly, the judge does not state where they learned this information. There is no source for such statements because the victim is not doing well.

52:52Anyone who knows the victim would agree they are not doing well. Who said that? Where did the judge get that information? Did the judge just make it up out of thin air? And does it even matter considering how vile and dangerous the perpetrators are? There was a question of truly who claimed the victim was doing well. There would have been no one, not the counseling centers that assisted the victim, not the medical staff, not the doctors, not the mother. Nobody would have said the victim is doing well, not a single person. Hannah even testified in court against the perpetrators briefly. she was made to state what she already stated to the police and dozens of times to different investigators and it would be very clear in that moment that she is not okay she is not doing well but the judges used this to let all 44 boys go with no punishment later Hannah's dad was interviewed about his decision to settle with some of the perpetrators because it is believed that that also had an impact on the judges decision basically saying yeah okay she doesn't forgive all 44 but she forgives some of them he's asked but as the victim's father shouldn't you be unable to forgive the perpetrators what did you even use the settlement money for the total amount i received was 35 000 which is nothing okay first of all i used about 18 000 to lease a house uh four thousand dollars i loaned to my brother-in-law i gave about 12 000 to my younger sister and about a thousand dollars to help get a room for my brother-in-law so he blew it all on nothing really and hannah didn't get a cent not a single penny do you regret settling i do regret it a bit yeah in what way do you regret it well people around me criticize me because i accepted so little money what his only regret is he didn't ask for more yeah at this point after all 44 get out with no punishment they're free to be.

54:48Hannah has to move out of her hometown. She moves to Seoul with her mom and her sister and she's looking for a new school to take her. None of the schools want her. That just gives you an idea how victims of SA were treated back in 2004, which honestly, that's very recent. Nobody wanted her. They just didn't want that attention. Schools are very different from the United States. In South Korea, a school's reputation is very important. It's almost like a private school. Every public school kind of behaves like a private school. They don't want problematic news. They don't want any attention surrounding their school that is not about their academic forwardness.

55:27And so nobody was accepting her to the point where she had an activist attorney who was taking on the case pro bono. He had to go into schools and fight them. He'd be like, are you crazy? Like this girl needs teachers. What are you doing? Hannah said, I used to be class president at my school, which in Korea you have to be like at the top of your class in terms of grades to be class president it's not just the popular vote she said I used to be class president at school and I even afterwards I just really wanted to work really hard but it didn't end up working out she finally gets transferred into a new school in Seoul but because one of the perpetrators mom shows up at this new school chasing her around the hallways of this school shoving a paper in her face trying to get her to sign another leniency paper.

56:17So this is, I guess, before the perpetrators got off with no punishment. Hannah was so scared she ran directly to the bathroom, locked herself in the stall, and the mom was just following her, banging on the door, demanding she sign this letter. And from that point forward, everybody knew who she was. Hannah said she couldn't focus in school. I mean, after that, in less than a week, she stopped going to school and she dropped out. One of Hannah's teachers wrote on an online forum later, we had a new transfer student in the middle school that I worked for. The transfer student was the Miryang case victim.

56:50I heard the victim's mother crying in the administrator's rooms about how she has no education, no money, and she just needs her daughter to be okay. I felt so sorry for the child when I heard her mother cry. She had to settle with the perpetrators in shame because they needed money and even though it must have been even more humiliating and painful. I taught her for a little bit of the semester and I talked to her. There were conversations I saw online, nasty rumors that she had seduced the boys first and I can assure you she did not. I never even got to see her smile once. She just always had this very dark look on her face and her mother was constantly shaking and sobbing every time I saw her.

57:29If watching her makes me this angry? How must they feel? It just really hurts my heart. Those who SA minors should never be forgiven. Hannah and her family were able to sue the police department and the government for violation of her human rights. The trial for that lasted four years, further traumatizing the victims. They were ultimately awarded$40 ,000 in the end, which is nothing. But it would be the first ever time the courts would recognize a violation of human rights by public authority against an essay victim so i guess the silver lining is it really did open the door for more people to hold authority to a standard but say can you say that one more time it was the first what it was the first time ever the courts recognized a violation of human rights by public authority so by the government by police officials this is the first time they say oh police can fuck up too.

58:26Yes. Like the first time they admit fault. And can violate human rights against an SA victim. So they paid the family$40 ,000. And I would say the only silver lining to that really is that it did open the door, they say. A lot of legal professionals said it was a landmark case in terms of at least opening the door to that because the first time is always the hardest time. But still, it's just crazy. Yeah, it's ridiculous. Now, in 2014, a movie titled Han Gongju 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 in over 200 theaters nationwide, which is a big deal.

59:12It 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.

59:50The 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 treatment since 2004. For the past 20 years, they cannot stop medicating. 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.

1:00:27The 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 i saw the perpetrators i'm from miriam i know these perpetrators one post said that they're still hanging out from time to time in miriam they all gather in their hometown now obviously not all 44 of them but there's still of them that are still friends they hang out and they talk about what happened to hannah as if it's a memory as if it's like wild fraternity hazing days.

1:01:10Like remember when we were kids and we were wild back then? Now we're not as wild because we got families. Then, June 2nd, 2024 Hannah's younger brother is spending time with his older sister So they do have a younger brother, but he was living with their dad at one point and he mentions Hesitantly YouTube is in chaos right now Why? YouTube? YouTube is in chaos right now Why? Personal information of the perpetrators is being disclosed, including their faces They're, uh, being exposed

1:01:57It all starts June 1st, 2024, when a YouTuber by the name of Narak Bo건서, or Health Storage, uploads a video that I was talking about. Park Keebam, did you think that I wouldn't find you? The YouTuber exposes one of the main 44 in the Miriam case. Now, side note, the original poster even asks a question of, all the perpetrators say, if you show me leniency, judge, I will live my life volunteering and helping those in need. The judge has showed leniency and it's been 20 years. So let's see. Did the perpetrators spend their lives volunteering, reflecting and helping those in need? Let's show the proof.

1:02:34Side note, and even more unbelievable. Up until recently, Hannah and her sister had been avoiding all media about their case. And they thought that most of the perpetrators were at least punished to some degree. They read on the case files that they were referred to the juvenile division. which meant they were taken to juvenile court. But it says juvenile department, which they thought meant juvenile detention. Like prison. Yeah. They didn't know that all of them walked free. Not a single one of them received a criminal record. They didn't know. Nobody told them. The police didn't tell them. The judges didn't tell them.

1:03:08So they didn't know anything about what happened to them. They just did not want to look at anything about this case. And they found out through? Recent. YouTube. all of this coming back out again. Wow. The victim said, I thought referral to juvenile department meant detention in juvenile center. And I thought at least they could be punished for their crimes in that way. Now they are going through some of the court documents again. And they read these words nonstop, no right of prosecution, lack of victim testimony. So the no right of prosecution means that she did not actively want to press charges, basically.

1:03:46And the lack of victim testimony, they don't understand what that means. She was forced to testify over and over and over and over again. Hannah says after 20 years, she just wants to know the truth now. What does that mean? She wants to know the truth about the investigation, the trial process. She said that nobody explained any of this to her back then. She said she was 15 back then and didn't understand, but now she wants to understand. She went and requested the documents and information from the courts of the case that she is the victim of, and they refused to give her the documents stating privacy reasons.

1:04:19They stated they can only give her the portions she already told the police. Basically, just a recap of her statements. What? Nothing about the perpetrators or even what the judges and prosecutors had said. She said, when I tried to obtain the case-related documents, they told me I need to get consent from all 44 perpetrators. Oh my God. Imagine getting consent. it's like nothing has changed from 20 years ago they're still playing the same game and like imagine looking a victim in the eye and saying you need to get consent from all 44 perpetrators to obtain court documents in which you are the victim she says i don't understand why i can't see them i still wonder and i'm curious about why i don't have the right to know after the first initial youtube video goes up it kickstarts a wave of perpetrators being exposed by a string of youtubers it's not just one it's like multiple so let's run through the list of exposed shall we here's a legal disclaimer these are all internet allegations and unless there is some transparency and justice achieved legally we can only state that these are speculations some of the accused have come forward themselves to confirm that they are connected to the case while others have come forward to deny that they are part of the case and accuse people of defamation.

1:05:38So with that being said, all of this is alleged moving forward. Park, from the beginning of the episode, is working at his aunt's restaurant, which is a famous macjib. Macjib in Korean is like a really good title. It's like a restaurant known for their unique and delicious food, which means it's bustling. A lot of business. He has a wife and daughter that he spoils with designer goods. And then we have Shin, also part of the main 44. He was working at a Volvo dealer, ship he has since been fired after being exposed but prior to that he owned two expensive foreign cars and played golf on the weekends which those two things are status symbols in korea and this made netizens so infuriated he has two cars yeah and they're not korean made cars so the average korean yeah drives a kia or like a hyundai because they're the most affordable right but he drives foreign cars which the import tax it's always more expensive yeah and golf on the weekends those are status symbols in korea that's like you made it in korea yeah he allegedly posted online to air out his frustrations i received hundreds of calls and unknown people contacting my company to protest which led to me having to leave the company i'm overwhelmed with emotions i don't understand and i don't know where to start or what to do the people around me are suffering too much because of me and the important thing is i did not commit essay i'm only thinking about whether this incident being brought to light again has hurt the victim's feelings more he's basically saying guys bringing this up you're only hurting the victim but he didn't deny or he kind of denied yeah and he's like all i can think about is are we just harming the victim even more by bringing this up again it doesn't even make sense whatever he's saying for three days i haven't even been able to swallow even a sip of water and i feel like i'm having cardiac arrest every day if the victim agrees i'm willing to undergo a reinvestigation this seems to be a growing trend that whenever people are exposed in Korea of doing bad things, they want you to know that they have not eaten.

1:07:34And many Korean netizens have commented, which roughly translates to, and what do you want me to do about it? Like it's such, I don't know what to do with this information. What do you want me to do about it? I don't care. Third offender, Go, he works at LGU Plus headquarters, corporate office supplying devices to agencies and retailers. After being exposed, he has temporarily been reassigned to a different apartment. what does that mean that means he's not fired like they hide him to somewhere else yeah what he is married with a wife and a daughter fourth offender kim he works at the park sports team of the medium facility management corporation he has since come forward to state at the time of the incident i was forced to participate due to threats from seniors not because i wanted to sure jan he continues i reached a settlement with the victim but i will definitely sue those parties involved for the witch hunt and defamation.

1:08:29Don't harass someone who's trying to live earnestly. He also misspells defamation. Fifth offender is Joe. It's said that he is currently wanted by authorities for a separate crime. Prior to that, though, he really liked to post quotes on social media that read, no mercy is needed for those who aren't human. Life is one mountain after another. The video states, the 39 who haven't been revealed yet should live with an uneasy heart, atoning for their actions as they're carrying a ticking time bomb that could go off at any moment oh this is one of the youtuber who's exposing these people they're saying you guys better watch out because we're coming for you next we have police officer song one of the team leaders investigating the median case he received brief disciplinary action for violating human rights for this case but he continued to live his life as a police inspector until his retirement in 2016 Then he went on to serve as the president of a local kickboxing association, ran a gym.

1:09:26He taught kickboxing to, quote, juvenile delinquents to help them on the right path, even providing scholarships. The YouTuber argued, had investigator Song investigated properly and the victim had been properly protected, there would be no need for me to disclose the perpetrator's personal information on YouTube like this now, 20 years later. It said the police officer that scolded Hannah For muddying Mi Ryong's waters Is Officer Kim Tae Hyun He only received one month of disciplinary suspension For being like, you're ruining our good town's name So this is a separate one from Song Yeah And he only got one month So he still had his job Oh yeah And today he's doing what?

1:10:09He's either still an officer or retired Or a lot of these people have gone into private practice so they work for companies or like a security agency Officer Cho Wungun he was the sergeant at the time he was one of the two at the hostess bar that made fun of the victims it's unclear what he's doing now but he only received a light disciplinary action of a pay cut for the hostess bar incident Detective Jung was also there at the hostess bar encounter allegedly he was also overheard getting drunk with colleagues talking about how they're all going to get promoted soon because of this huge Miryang case then we have Hyo a perpetrator who now runs a chicken restaurant in Midian he allegedly told the victim's family things like let's see how well you live after reporting this you better watch your back perpetrator Shin who apparently just has a dirty look on his face all the time he had beaten up kids all throughout high school it is unknown what he's up to now perpetrator Lee was a fighter in high school unknown what he is up to now perpetrator Jun was described as a psycho in high school those who knew him said yeah he was beyond crazy and beyond help he was gonna go on to like kill someone or something he's that crazy unknown what he is up to now perpetrator kim bullied kids for no reason at high school for no reason at all now he provides private loans as an adult illegal charging over 800 percent in annual interest he's he's a loan shark yeah he's a predatory loan shark and i'm sure if you don't pay him back he's not gonna be not violent he even has the audacity to appear on people's live streams yeah he had a roommate that was a live streamer and he would just hop on with no shame no fear he was not hiding the live streamer had to apologize because he's like i had no idea that this random roommate was part of the medium 44 like how would i have known but the fact that he has no fear and is willing to be that public is crazy another perpetrator joe one of the most demonic guys in high school is how he is described unknown what he is doing now Next is Park who used to run Burning Mak Chang Restaurant What's that?

1:12:09It's a burning pig intestine barbecue restaurant And after being exposed his restaurant was quietly and quickly shut down The next exposed alleged perpetrator is Zhu It said that after being exposed he feels very wronged Because he never essayed anyone He also makes a note that he did not want to essay that victim Almost as if it's like if it were anyone else maybe Wait, so this person came out with a statement? Yeah, and he said, I feel wronged because I never essayed her. And he has this whole story about how he just didn't want to essay her. He doesn't say anything about her looks or anything, but it's almost the implication of like, had it been someone else, maybe things would have been different.

1:12:46Maybe he would have essayed her. It's just really bizarre. He expresses frustration, stating that none of this would have even happened had the victim not even come to Miriam in the first place. Basically asking, what was she even doing in Miriam? He's still saying that today? Yeah. He writes, I know this incident is wrong. At my age though, it's a time when we should have been meeting girls and having fun. So I'm 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 essayed.

1:13:19But he claims he did not hold her arms and legs down while punching her to essay 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 Miriam. 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 Miriam. Let's meet up. And we ended up drinking. You're kidding.

1:13:51And 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 Miriam 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 Miriam on her own. I don't treat women badly like this.

1:14:27it 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 is 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 alleged that his mother-in-law collapsed when she found out the news comments read this bastard who's worse than the devil and his offspring are trying to sell honey?

1:15:18Living sweetly by sucking honey and selling honey? Enjoying a sweet life as a r-worder? The next perpetrator is Sol and it's said that he's lurking around in online chat rooms like the one that the victim met the perpetrator on. He claims he's just an innocent person that's also just watching all of this unfold on the internet. He has nothing to do with it. He doesn't know how he got roped into it. He says, I'll say this for the last time if you don't have any brains or eyes i'm sorry but i'm just also another person spectating online are you a fucking prosecutor ha ha ha ha what qualifications do these youtubers have are you immersed in some sort of drama in your mind this is hilarious catching an innocent person and acting like there's something ha ha ha do you live in some fantasy world i mean that response is like a confession yeah this is these people are like straight out of uh villain movies yeah villain k-drama like those those creepy k-dramas like this is not real yeah perpetrator m he works as a salesperson at bmw he has since posted a statement that reads along the lines of i'm wronged you've ruined my family's daily lives i'll take legal action against baseless rumors and malicious comments he posted a criminal investigation records check reply to show that he has no criminal record but that's the whole point that people are outraged over that none of them have a criminal record, but he's using it to be like, see, nothing's on my record.

1:16:43You got the wrong guy. So everyone's like, what? That doesn't even make sense. He says, when I go home and see my two daughters running and crying to me saying, dad, I just keep crying. I resent myself for causing such great pain to my family because of this. Every time my family, friends, seniors and juniors have all been a great support to me. And even the police officer in charge of checking my criminal investigation records, patted me on the back and told me to stay strong. I thank these people for their encouragements. I was able to gather my thoughts and write this statement. For the return of normalcy for me and my family, I will take legal action against baseless rumors and malicious comments, also hoping no more innocent victims like me will occur.

1:17:23I will donate any fines exceeding the attorney's fees to the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center. Im has since been fired from his position at BMW. Another perpetrator named Joe has stated that he is not involved in the case. He states he's accused of being one of the perpetrators that settled with the victim. His argument is, quote, I've never reached an agreement. Any SA crimes are subject to complaint under the SA Violence Punishment Act. So I would be punished even if I reached an agreement with the victim. Again, the reason that people are mad at this case to begin with is that nobody is punished regardless of anything, regardless of agreement or not.

1:17:56So what kind of argument even is that? Also, that specific revision to the SA Violence Punishment Act didn't even come into effect until 2013, which is after the crime. So again, are they just hoping that netizens are dumb because netizens are not dumb. Now, side note, I do want to mention, I do think it is dangerous. I, I think most people in Korea are very conflicted about what's going on on YouTube right now. To a degree, it's like, yes, this is the only way to get some sort of justice because these people feel like they're untouchable. They can do whatever they want. And now they're being outed by these vigilante justice YouTubers, right?

1:18:31So it's sowing some level of fear, I hope, to some perpetrators. But the whole point is they shouldn't be doing this anyway because the justice system should have handled it, right? That's the feeling. But the secondary feeling is it is dangerous because you just don't know if you get the wrong person. What happens then, right? Now, I will say the above statements of these people saying that you got the wrong guy, I think the statement itself shows that they don't got the wrong guy because I imagine if you are accused of a crime that you really have no relation to you would have a completely different statement you would try to show proof of like wait guys I don't know these people involved here's evidence that I was actually attending this school at that time and then you would try to bring up like maybe get statements from friends of like no trust me like this person doesn't but these reactions of like i am wronged yeah i'm also feel i also feel like you know like there 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 like these people are probably all publicly 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.

1:19:58And then she would just get dogpiled 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 Miriam 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.

1:20:42He 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 Miriam case. Judge Hwang Jinyo, retired as a judge, has gone into private practice where he is now representing accused criminals and he is now helping one of the Miriam accused perpetrators to sue for defamation.

1:21:12wow allegedly but you say this guy had plastic surgery name change yeah that is that saves a lot so also another thing that's allegedly happening is that behind the scenes a lot of the perpetrators are going to youtubers and saying hey if you don't out me i'll give you a list of 10 names of perpetrators oh like they're all trying to out each other first wow and another side note joe and another perpetrator they're suing people for defamation together right now their friendship went south because joe would just take all the money i think he made like a hundred thousand dollars in defamation lawsuits wait the perpetrators are two perpetrators are suing youtubers yeah youtubers and netizens because you can actually sue like netizen comments in korea so they're taking all these people to court oh you have to also have to explain how defamation law works in Korea.

1:22:04Yes. Okay. So here's the thing with defamation in the United States and South Korea. And we've had problems with this because we've had Korean perpetrators be like, we're going to sue you for defamation. And I said, okay, yeah, the laws are different in the U S come meet me in the U S. So basically in the United States, defamation is someone would have to knowingly post false information about a public figure, or if they're not a public figure, it would just have to be false information about somebody, right? Let's say journalist is writing about a senator who has been embezzling funds. That senator can sue the journalist for defamation.

1:22:38In the United States, all the journalist has to do is show proof that the senator has been doing this. The senator has to show proof that they had not been doing this. They have the burden of proof. They have to show that this is a lie. You are a lying journalist. And on top of that, the senator has to prove that the journalist knew that they're lying, but still posted that article. It's very difficult to prove. So the difference mainly for defamation laws in South Korea and the United States, and we were talking to our Korean researchers about this, Koreans hate it. In Korea, you can't post the truth.

1:23:09You can get sued for posting the truth as defamation. So if I find out that somebody was in a DUI, I'm like, this name has been hidden from the courts, but I know that person personally. So I go online and I say, Hey guys, remember that person? Oh yeah, it's this guy right here i could get sued for defamation even though it is true it's not proprietary information it's not confidential information i didn't sign an nda besides that wouldn't work because it's illegal for that one but like you get it it just even if you i think they say like anything that hurts their reputation they can sue you is that how it works anything that hurts their reputation they can sue you for defamation even if what they did is true even if their right to their reputation being damaged is true.

1:23:53It's just the weirdest law. So our researcher was telling us that it might be, they don't agree with this law, but they're saying it might be because Korea is a very small nation. And so even if they post the truth, it could ruin your whole career forever and you would not have the chance to rebuild a life. So most of this would cover things like allegations of cheating on your partner and stuff like that. But it doesn't make sense. Nobody likes this. Yeah. Like, who are we really protecting here? Now, Joe also states, the fact that I received no punishment means that I have not done anything wrong.

1:24:25I am innocent. That also is the dumbest statement I've ever heard because that's the reason that people are mad is that nobody received punishment. He's saying, I'm innocent because I didn't get punished. And he also ends the statement with, I will sue all of you. It's speculated that he has sued over 200 people and another perpetrator named Park, His dad was a city council member at the time of the crime in Miryang, which begs the question, are we sure that they did not influence the investigation at all? Park is currently working as a manager in a massive global corporation. Then we have Kang and his mom.

1:24:57Kang is now a homeowner and his mom posts about how happy she is after COVID lockdowns to be back with her friends. And she feels so, quote, alive. And I'm so happy. She's also the one that called Hannah a gold digger. Yeah. lawyer m has been exposed as being the one that repeatedly asked hannah's little sister if she wasn't assaulted because of her weight it said he now runs his own private practice in the victim's hometown so that's great he's a criminal defense attorney that reps clients who have been accused and charged with home invasions aggravated assaults essay and drug charges the youtubers allege that he is not a lawyer for victims but clearly one in the business of protecting perpetrators.

1:25:38Then there's perpetrator Lee. He has actually posted a full on quote public apology, if you can call it that. He says that he is posting this video to apologize to the victim, that he's extremely sorry and has been sorry since 2014. He said it took a ton of courage for him to film this apology video. And yes, his wrongdoings are hard to forgive. But once again, he apologizes. The apology was not well received. Most netizens commented along the lines of, honestly, he would have been better off just looking up the standard apology template. If someone didn't even know what he was talking about, they would have no idea what he's talking about or who he's apologizing to or for what.

1:26:12He just refers to his crimes as the incident from 20 years ago. Side note, the standard apology template in South Korea goes like this. Content you should mention. Who are you? When, where, and what you did and how? Who did you harm? Are there any facts that have been reported differently than the actual situation? How are you planning to reflect? How do you plan to take responsibility for the matter moving forward content that should not be included there's literally a rule book online for this for apologies content you should not include the words and phrases unintentionally this is all a misunderstanding i will be more careful in the future i feel wronged i am not the only one at fault i mean this is like you learned this in fifth grade yeah yeah and i'm sure nobody feels this way but just in case somebody does to be fair right at least he apologized unlike the others no allegedly another expose youtuber received information about his wife's expensive apartment that his wife's family owns and the stores that they run so in an attempt to not have that information published he promised the youtuber i will formally apologize to the victim right so he didn't want to apologize then perpetrator kim is exposed he is currently working as a traveling air conditioner installer which is terrifying to think he's let into people's homes and he travels for work perpetrator yun jin sang is exposed and makes an apology video saying standard apology but worse he beat hannah with a belt and an iron pipe while assaulting her so i'm not sure how you can this person exposed his own face as well yes now he was exposed for beating her with an iron pipe while assaulting her.

1:27:57Yeah, so I don't really know how you can even pretend to be remorseful for that. So his apology video just doesn't really go over well. Like, oops, sorry, I don't know. Yeah, I mean, he does try to make himself look good by saying that he never stole from the victim though, like never stole her money. Lastly, there is the cousin. She was originally thought to be a victim in this case because that's what the police initially released to the press. However, it is being cleared up that she was never a victim. She was actually part of the perpetrator. she dated one of the perpetrators and completely turned a blind eye to her own cousin hannah being tortured and essayed for a year she also begged on her knees for leniency for her boyfriend not for forgiveness allegedly yeah now one of the more startling revelations through all of this is a girl named huang she is being exposed as allegedly being a girlfriend to one of the perpetrators during the crime.

1:28:53It's alleged that not only did she know that her boyfriend was doing this to the victim, but she allegedly helped record it and even called Hannah ugly and taunted her as she was being essayed. There is an old post that was dug up from when the perpetrators were all released with a slap on their wrist. She writes to another friend. Did it all get sorted out okay? I've heard that apart from three people, everyone else has come out of detention fine. Those girls were so ugly anyway. Anyway, everyone, good work. now it's been alleged that she has now grown up and become a police officer netizens even dug up her alleged application to become a police officer and she wrote allegedly i'm a very honest and diligent person i think about crimes from the viewpoint of criminals too in the case of sa i am able to consider both victim as well as criminal's position and whether the victim did not walk around in a manner encouraging to be assaulted I can also do some martial arts as well.

1:29:48The fact that somebody saw that application and said, this is the one that's going to be a cop is mind boggling. Huang has since then apologized, if you can call it that, saying, I posted that without knowing, but I deeply regret my actions that broke the victim's heart. I sincerely bowed down with my head. Netizens have commented, is her application a comedic piece? They are not police. They are gangsters. She's friends with offenders for crying out loud. What kind of person like this becomes a cop? That's why we have crazy crimes in this nation. She's apologizing. Last time I checked, she's still Facebook friends with offenders.

1:30:23Huang is so very sorry that she has now waged a lawsuit against the netizens that have exposed her. Side note, a lot of the investigators working this case before and after some of them were exposed. They're all avoiding interviews. They get agitated when reporters show up to even ask them a question about the case, which if you didn't do anything wrong, you have nothing to hide. one police official did state about the officer scolding hannah for muddying the waters of miriam because that was a big deal he said that person was from miriam you know he probably felt like the community was one big family so our staff scolded her he shouldn't have done that you know from the female student's perspective that must have been difficult right this is crazy in total only eight of the officers that violated hannah's human rights received any disciplinary actions and even the ones that did I mean could they really be considered disciplinary actions so far a total of 29 identities have been revealed on YouTube so far they're not all the 29 of the 44 some of them are officers judges lawyers many are in the 44 but others are also friends of the perpetrators that said heinous things like that girlfriend that became a police officer so there's just a lot now some of the perpetrators are actually trying to reach out to the victim demanding that she help make all this go away.

1:31:42Which, 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? who is this one of the perpetrators undisclosed yeah whoa that kind of request should honestly if i ran my own country i was gonna say death but it 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 can't 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 buttholes that happened to be located on their face.

1:32:39All I did was give her bus money and buy her food. I feel so wronged for being accused. But what's even crazier is how can we assume that the perpetrators actually feel any remorse? I mean, look at the way their parents acted when they were caught committing the crimes. And even now, one of the perpetrators' 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 are so many people living quietly now in this country who have committed even worse crimes.

1:33:09At 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 are very different. Another mom protecting her precious little boy, her son, the most important human to exist, states, why do I have to feel sorry for the victim's family?

1:33:47Why? It's not like we haven't suffered. Do they not think about the damage we suffered? If you're going to have a daughter, you better raise them right. You have to raise them right so these types of incidents don't happen. Those kinds of girls, they come to the boys and wag their tails do you think any guy isn't gonna fall for it and be tempted honestly do you think that we're not talking because we don't have mouths okay so that's a korean phrase which basically translates to like do you think some people don't talk because they don't have a mouth and it means like do you really think we have nothing to say almost implying like we're just not saying it because we're above it or we have something that would hurt the victim more like we have so much to say it's very bizarre and unhinged like they are just as nasty as these guys because that's exactly how they turn out this way it's it's exactly you see the you see what who raised these boys you know miryang the city itself is getting canceled right now with tourism boycotts products from miryang as well as food and any agriculture being boycotted by many civilians the local government with about 80 officials from miryang had to bow and issue a public apology the mayor bowed deeply and said i once again apologize to the victim and their families who suffered unspeakable pain from this incident and to all citizens he only apologized because they're getting canceled yeah like they didn't do anything yeah decades so yeah that's the point right i don't think anyone would have boycotted a whole town just because a heinous crime happened there but just the horrific police procedure that followed it's just it's yeah i'm not endorsing that message i'm just explaining there's a lot of conversations about it and a lot of conversations of she was essayed in playgrounds tennis courts motels i mean this is a small town we're talking about the youtubers are getting sued by the perpetrators most of the youtubers are faceless and use a voice distortion software to make sure that they can't be found but some of them have been and are being sued Like I said, in South Korea, unauthorized personal information disclosure is considered defamation.

1:36:00Yeah, which is, again, very crazy. To complicate things even further, Hell Storage is not actually a picture-perfect vigilante justice warrior either. He's the first one that posted the first video that kicked off this whole thing. He's no longer posting, I believe, but he made a public statement soon after releasing the first video that said, I have directly communicated via email with the victim's family and they have agreed to disclose all 44 names. Hannah and her family never consented to this. In fact, that statement alone made them very scared. Basically, it's one thing to expose perpetrators' names by yourself as a vigilante justice warrior because the perpetrator's anger is now directed at these YouTubers, like what the fork is going on, right?

1:36:41Sure, there's implications and moral debates on these vigilante YouTubers, but it's another thing to state that the victim wants you to do this because now the anger from the perpetrators could be easily directed to the victim. Hannah and her family said they were terrified that the perpetrators would hear this and try to retaliate in some manner. So Hell Storage has since then apologized for lying about the situation. He claims that he was briefly in contact with the victim's younger brother and took that as consent, which I don't know, okay, if that's even true. But by this point, other YouTubers have come up and started revealing more information about the perpetrators.

1:37:16They do not claim to be working with the victim at all. They state that they are just finding information and exposing perpetrators through tips. So you have some people arguing, yes, the justice system is messed up and that needs to be fixed. But is the fix to do this? Is it to create so much outrage that the justice system has to do this? Or is it something else? Some people argue this is more of a witch hunt than anything. That yes, you could expose real perpetrators, but there's also a chance that innocent people are named. How can they prove their innocence in a situation like this? but others argue, I mean, when the law can't do it, someone has to, right?

1:37:54You can't just sit here and pray for a better justice system because look where that's gotten people. It hasn't gotten people anywhere. And some people hope that this causes such a slap in the face to the justice system that they feel mocked that they will slowly start to change how they do things. Most netizens feel that private revenge is only happening because the justice system failed. Why would anyone do this if it was okay the first time? Yeah, yeah. But some netizen comments read, the perpetrators are bad, but the victim is also problematic. To be honest, I can't help but think she deserved it.

1:38:28Like, why did she keep quiet for a year? It's just all weird. One comment was talking about how after all this time, like, let them move on. They have families. You're impacting families regarding the perpetrators. But another comment hits back. Some say, why now after all this time? Is that even something a human would utter? For a victim, even though time has passed, the pain feels like it happened yesterday. I want to use curse words at these people, but I will stop here. Parents who sheltered their perpetrator children, you are the ones that turned your kids into monsters. Another reads, the male teenagers have become monsters.

1:39:03The families that raised them to be monsters, the parents, the local communities they belong to. Is this all really a human society? Is this not just barbarianism? with the newfound attention to the case the victims have been doing more interviews with the press completely anonymous faces blared voices altered with fake names they were asked why now and they said we looked at each other the two sisters and they said let's stop avoiding it and face reality for once back then we were young we didn't know how the case would unfold we thought all the perpetrators would be punished just based on their statements we are no longer the young sisters we were back then if we feel we are being victimized we are prepare to step forward now we want to say that we're not young girls anymore they're in their mid-30s now so after the renewed attention on the case there have been a lot of donations including rotten mango thanks to you guys and the support of our partners there have been a lot of donations pouring in for hannah and the sexual violence center that she was working with from the entirety since the incident happened and she said thank you to the many people who have donated through sexual violence counseling centers.

1:40:08I will truly never forget this and live remembering it for the rest of my life. Even after 20 years have passed, I would like to express my gratitude to many people who have remembered us, friends, sisters, and neighbors who have been close to us. Thank you to all of you who have given us strength. We were able to speak our hearts for the first time. I've decided to use the donations for a deposit for public housing, and I'll be moving soon, and use the rest for treatments and things that I couldn't have done before. Thank you so much. She said, I have never once forgotten the face of the perpetrators.

1:40:40Not once, all 44 of them. And the violence center that she works for has made a statement on her behalf stating that they are not attached to any vigilante YouTuber. Like they're not talking to any of these people. The one thing that she does request from the public is she just hopes they don't forget. And it seems like she hasn't either. And we shouldn't either. until something changes. And that is the case right now of the Miriam 44 that has come up again. What are your thoughts on this case? I mean, it's crazy. Everything that we thought we knew also turned out to be false information leaks from the police.

1:41:23I don't even understand the purpose of those false information leaks. Like why group the sister? Why group the cousin? It's just so bizarre to me. The way that everyone, every step of the way handled it. the defense attorneys, the judges, the investigators is so mind-boggling. What are your thoughts? Please stay safe and I will see you in the next one. Bye.