Okay, i know everyone has different opinions. I read your post, sure sangwoo was a victim of domestic violence and child abuse: sexually, physically and psychologically. But Bum is also victim of all this. I am not defending no one. Both are messy and broken characterw. Yeah bum had loving parents who died but he was still a child who was a victim of violence and his uncle raped him. You think there are a difference between a child raped and an adult raped. Who cares about age? A Rape is a Rape! When sangwoo died, he should have been in psychiatry hospital even bum should, because bum has bordeline personality. What bum did was horrible and an act of criminal: he stalked him and broken into his house, he is like that because of his bordeline personality caused by a trauma: raped and all. But sangwoo is also a criminal. A narcissist and sadistic sociopath who enjoys making others suffer. These SHALLOW girls that you called don't deserve To be raped, tortured and killed. So if i found my boyfriend cheating, i am going To kill him? Or i cheated, do i deserve to be tortured, raped and killed?
The response is obvious: sangwoo and bum were victims of abuse, but even so it does not excuse their behaviuors.
And i know what i say, I was victim of sexual harassment, maybe this pervert who harassed me was also a victim of sexual harassment....BUT EVEN SO! IT DOES NOT EXCUSE THIS IMMORAL BEHAVIOUR!
Plus just because had loving parents that does not mean he did not suffer. It like saying I was sexually assaulted but I had loving parents
And another she was sexually assaulted but she did not have loving parents. So let her kill innocent people
Bum and Sangwoo were actually raped around the same age
How do you know Bum has borderline personality disorder? Where are his symptoms?
All he shows is an obsession for Sangwoo which is something you cannot expect from a stalker.
also, Sangwoo is a sociopath, narcissist and sadist (btw each one of these traits can be explain by an event in his past unlike Bum) yes, but he also has a very distorted vision of reality.
Those girls were shallow, let's call a cat a cat, their death doesn't make them angels.
I'm not saying they deserved it, I am making a parallel between them and sangwoo's mom. Being approched by women who act exactly like his mom, TO OBTAIN THE SAME THING HAS HIS MOM (remember she also acted like them before she raped him and he had to kill her.) Is what makes sangwoo killed them.
Btw they were almost all in for sex because he looked handsome and popular dont be mistaken. He killed them after sex mostly. Because he just thought they were like his mom.
And people really have to stop mistaking explanation and excuses:
Excuse is making the act legitimate, like self defense.
Explanation is understandable what happened, how it happened and who's truly responsible. Like legal blame that doesn't apply to children or mental illness that greatly affects discernment (which is basically sangwoo's case)
And I would know what I say too, I was victim of sexual harassment, rape attempt, sexual assault several times, I'm also a law student who used to make research about mental illnesses because I aspired to be a psychiatrist.
We also do criminology in law which is basically analyzing criminal behavior.
Okay, i al going To sound shallow, but i hope everything is alright, i am deeply sorry if i judged you, i did not know your circumstances, i am extremely sorry. I also study psychology. But even if the girls were After his look and all, it does not justify the fact that he killed them. And bum has a bordeline personality caused by the death of his parents, raped by his uncle ect...even the author said it, the fact that bum has a bordeline personality! Let's say i am this SHALLOW girl who is woth sangwoo only for his look and one day i cheated on him or i want To break up due To pur differences. Do i deserve to be tortured and all?
What bum did was horrible: break into the house of someone and stalk them, but it does not make sangwoo less than a monster! He raped bum and all!
What i mean is the fact there are in real world some innocents people who were victims of the sociopath like sangwoo(victims of child abuse and domestic violence, broken inside) and these victims like sangwoo makes others innocent peole victims of theirs
I am not justifying anything, I am just explaining why calling him a "monster" is a mistake.
He isn't Ted Bundy, who had a normal life and everything.
Sangwoo is actually a perfectly normal human being. And it might hurt the feelings of those who still believe Humans were born angels, but Humans are blank canvas, who become a product of their environment and upbringing. In his circumstances, Sangwoo could not have become anything else.
I'd say getting a psychiatrist was the last escape route but they treated him as a potential criminal first.
The "monsters" are the people who had other options, yet showed unexplainable cruelty. We don't have the origins. Like Ted Bundy.
But a lot of psychologists aren't to be trusted, unlike psychiatrists. I always thought that but this confirms it.
Taking a step back before entering public tribunal is your job
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It's what you're supposed to be qualified for the most. You're the one who's supposed to understand more than me that explaining things and being careful with words is important.
That is true. But in real life the judge's reasoning would have been the same as mine.
This person is not capable of discernment, so he can't go to jail.
Here Im doing your job (analyzing sangwoo to see if he's sane enough for accountability) and mine (applying legal consequence)
This is important so I'm posting it. Quickly written but deep analysis of Killing Stalking, requiem for Sangwoo: (copy-paste of my comment)
I cannot believe so many comments are about this rat Bum.
He's a stalker and has breaker and literally NONE of his trauma can explain that. Also he was already a failing adult before his trauma, despite having loving parents. He's literally a rat.
Sangwoo had big mental illness, he never was given the chance to become a fonctional adult. No one can judge him 'cause in his place you DONT know what you would have become, here's a friendly reminder:
when he was a child his father beat his mom, made him eat on the floor, his mom tried to kill him, never genuinely loved him, then she killed his dad and tried to kill sangwoo, then raped him and tried to murder him again.
When his parents died, instead of assigning him a psychiatrist, he was interrogated which fucked him up even more. He could have had therapy and healed but no, society let him down until the end and he turned first into a liar, then all the "fear" "defiance" and "resentment towards his mom went to all the girls that acted like her towards him: shallow, insincere.
I cant believe everyone is like "oh poor stalker that broke into a mentally ill person's house while looking exactly like their rapist mom"
The fcking AUDACITY it takes. I could honestly write a 7 chapters book on Sangwoo's psychology because that sht deserves to be studied.
While sangwoo was not fully responsible for his actions, Bum was. And that was the whole play of this story, and the fact that a lot of people dont get it shows how fucked society is: you dont care about actual truth, just who looks more pitiful in appearances.
Anyway, it was an amazing story I will always fight for sangwoo, for people to stop overlooking his mental state, his whole traumatic life, all the details about him and what could've been done to heal him, and people who mock his death.