[KS] honor killings

[Joshua David Pilzer]

In Korea's Place in the Sun, p. 63, Bruce Cumings quotes Ledyard (the
Dutch Come to Korea, pp. 211-12, 217) quoting Hamel's 17th c. description
of social codes allowing a husband to kill his adulterous wife without
fear of punishment.  He also describes a gruesome execution method
that Hamel claims was used to punish a woman who dispatched her husband.

Josh Pilzer




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