Break-in

The 2005 English Spectrum Incident

Part 1: English Spectrum and 'Ask The Playboy'
Part 2: The Kimchiland where it’s easy to sleep with women and make money
Part 3: English Spectrum shuts down as Anti-English Spectrum is created
Part 4: How to hunt foreign women
Part 5: Did the foreigners who denigrated Korean women throw a secret party?
Part 6: The 'Ask The Playboy' sexy costume party
Part 7: Stir over ‘lewd party’ involving foreigners and Korean women
Part 8: The 2003 post that tarred foreign English teachers as child molesters
Part 9: Netizens shocked by foreign instructor site introducing how to harass Korean children
Part 10: Movement to expel foreign teachers who denigrated Korean women
Part 11: "Middle school girls will do anything"
Part 12: Netizens propose 'Yankee counter strike force'
Part 13: Segye Ilbo interview with the women from the party, part 1
Part 14: Segye Ilbo interview with the women from the party, part 2
Part 15: Web messages draw Koreans’ wrath
Part 16: Thai female laborers and white English instructors
Part 17: 'Regret' over the scandal caused by confessions of foreign instructors
Part 18: "Korean men have no excuse"
Part 19: "Unfit foreign instructors should be a 'social issue'"
Part 20: 'Clamor' at foreigner English education site
Part 21: Foreign instructor: "I want to apologize"
Part 22: No putting brakes on 'Internet human rights violations'
Part 23: "They branded us as whores, yanggongju and pimps," part 1
Part 24: "They branded us as whores, yanggongju and pimps," part 2
Part 25: Don't Imagine
Part 26: 'Foreign instructor' takes third place
Part 27: Art From Outsider's Point of View
Part 28: U.S. Embassy warns Americans of threats near colleges
Part 29: Internet real name system debated
Part 30: Dirty Korean women who have brought shame to the country?
Part 31: Foreign instructor: "In two years I slept with 20 Korean women."
Part 32: Invasion of Privacy Degrades Korean Women Twice Over
Part 33: 60 unqualified native speaking instructors hired for English instruction
Part 34: The rising tide of unqualified foreign instructors
Part 35: Warrant for Canadian English instructor who molested hagwon owner
Part 36: Viewers shocked by shameless acts of unqualified foreign instructors.
Part 37: Warrant for the arrest of a man in his 30s for breaking into home of foreign instructors

On February 2, 2005, Yonhap reported the following incident:

Warrant for the arrest of a man in his 30s for breaking into home of foreign instructors

(Ulsan=Yonhap News) Reporter Jang Yeong-eun = Ulsan Seobu Police on the 2nd requested an arrest warrant for a Mr. Kim (33, jobless) who has been charged for theft and breaking into the home of English hagwon foreign instructors and for use of violence (assault) against foreign English instructors.

According to police, at 4am on the 1st, Mr. Kim broke into the housing provided by an Ulsan English hagwon to try to steal money and valuables and choked female foreign English teacher A, who had been woken up, and threw punches at and injured two other foreign instructors before fleeing.

Police collected bloodstains from the scene of the crime and arrested Mr. Kim after it was confirmed by a DNA test that it matched Mr. Kim's.

It sounds like it was rather rough encounter. While it has little to do with the English Spectrum incident, it does go to show that some stories of foreign teachers being victimized at the hands of Koreans did make it into the news.

One question that pops up, though, is how long it takes to do a DNA test, since the suspect was arrested, according to the report, some 24 hours after the crime took place.