[KS] punishment of women in Choson

[Henny Savenije]

Hendrick Hamel wrote in 1666

A woman, who kills her husband, is buried alongside a road on which a 
lot of people pass, in a way that only her head sticks out of the 
ground. Next to her they put a wooden saw, with which everybody who 
passes her, except the nobility, has to saw one time on her head, 
until she dies.

A man who kills his wife goes freely if he can proof that he had a 
good reason for that, for instance adultery or having failed in her 
marital duties. A man, who kills a female slave, has to pay to the 
owner of the female slave, three times the value.

The beating of the buttocks takes place as follows: The condemned has 
to lower his pants and lie face down. Sometimes he has to lay face 
down on a bench, at which he is tied. For moral reasons the women can 
keep up their pants. These are wetted to feel the blows better. For 
the beating sticks are being used which are five feet long, round at 
the top and one hand wide at the bottom and of a little finger's 
thickness. A hundred beatings mean the death of the condemned.

Doesn't look to me that women were treated more lenient.



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