More than 70 years have passed since the establishment of the US-ROK military alliance after the end of the Korean War, but there are still quite a few US troops stationed in South Korea.
From a certain point of view, these American GIs are not governed by South Korean law, and even override the law, and have done a lot of bad things.
In 1992, an American GI named Markle raped and killed a South Korean woman with very cruel means, and the South Korean people took to the streets to protest against the US troops in South Korea, demanding that they get out of their country.
However, these demonstrations did not work, and the murderer Markle was only sentenced to 15 years in prison, and later he applied for medical parole to return to the United States and live a normal life.
The young woman was followed when she came home from work, and died tragically, and her neighbors called the police
Back in the middle of the night on October 28, 1992, Yoon Jinyi, a 20-year-old South Korean girl, came home from work as usual, thinking that bad luck would befall her.
She works in a bar, often late at night or early in the morning, and the road in front of her has been walked countless times, and she walks home as usual that day, but she always feels that there is a pair of eyes staring at her behind her, and when she looks back, she doesn't find anything unusual.
There are U.S. troops stationed in South Korea near the bar, and rumors of American soldiers sexually assaulting South Korean women have been exposed, but out of instinct, Yoon Jinyi still feels that he is being targeted, so he quickens his pace and walks in the direction of home.
Her sixth sense was right, and there was a man named Kenneth Bush at the time. L. Markle's American GI became ill-intentioned when he saw Yin Jinyi, who was bumpy and walking alone.
The drunken Markle did not rush up immediately, but kept following behind looking for an opportunity, Yin Jinyi returned to the apartment and was about to take the key to open the door, when suddenly there was a heavy footstep from behind him.
I saw a tall and strong American soldier rushing directly over, she wanted to go home to hide, but the door was just about to close the moment Markle pulled it open.
The American GI seemed to have returned to his home, and when he entered the house, he did not forget to lock the door behind his back to prevent the "prey" he was targeting from escaping.
Looking at Markle in camouflage uniform, with a wicked smile on his face, Yin Jinyi understood the other party's intentions, and immediately ran to the windowsill to call for help. Markle saw through Yoon Jinyi's intentions, took a few steps and grabbed the girl and punched her.
Yin Jinyi was blinded by this strong punch, and Markle ignored and began to pick her clothes, relieved Yin Jinyi desperately struggled and shouted for help, Markle was afraid of being discovered, picked up the beer bottle in the room and smashed it at the girl's head.
smashed four or five times in a row, and the victim fell into a coma with blood on his face...... After a long time, Markle left the scene and returned to the unit as if nothing had happened.
On October 29, a colleague at the bar found out that Yoon Jinyi did not come to work and did not ask for leave, so they called the girl's family, and the parents were very anxious when they learned that their daughter was missing, and rushed to the police station to report the case.
At that time, the police were also looking for Yin Jinyi's family, because during the day, neighbors had already found her body, and the victim was lying naked on the floor of the house, covered in bruises, and it looked like she had been beaten.
Yoon Jinyi's lower body was also inserted into a beer bottle, an umbrella was inserted into his anal area, his mouth was stuffed with matches, and laundry detergent was sprinkled on and around his body...... The police and forensic doctors who witnessed the scene gasped.
American GIs lied many times to cover up their crimes, and protests broke out among South Koreans
Through the investigation, the South Korean police quickly locked up the suspect Markle, and when he was found, Markle was training with other soldiers, and his comrades-in-arms reported that they did not see any abnormality in Markle, and such a strong psychological quality had to be surprising.
Soon the police brought the suspect to the police station for questioning, and Markle was full of lies and repeatedly retracted his confession and shirked responsibility.
At first, he said he did not know the victim and that the two had not met until the police presented the testimony of a neighbor that he admitted that he had hit Yoon on the head with a wine bottle.
Markle explained: Yin Jinyi shouted for help too loudly, and he smashed the other party with the bottle in a hurry, and when I left the room, the girl was not dead, and I heard her moaning......
He explained that he wanted to characterize the murder as a crime of injury, and the South Korean police did not believe Markle's statement, and the perpetrator could not reverse black and white when the victim was already dead.
The police department arranged a polygraph test for Markle, which showed that he was lying, and it was speculated that Yoon Kim Yi had died before Markle left the house, which is a serious crime of intentional homicide.
Faced with the results given by the lie detector, Markle confessed to another American GI, Jason Lambert.
He claimed that he had a conflict with Lambert on the night of the incident and made a move, because he saw the drunk Yin Jinyi sympathy and wanted to send the girl home, but was stopped by Lambert, who thought that he should send the girl home by himself, claiming to be the victim's boyfriend.
After that, Markle continued to shirk responsibility, saying that he had kindly sent the victim home but was attacked by the other party, and had to take self-defense, and when he left the scene of the crime, he saw Lambert enter the room, and when he returned to the barracks, Lambert also bragged about the murder scene in front of other comrades.
According to the suspect, the police found the American GI named Jason Lambert, who denied all the accusations made against him by Markle, claiming that he did go to Yoon Jinyi's house that night and heard Markle's gasp......
The confessions of the two people are completely inconsistent, and the police are investigating Markle's past, and more and more black materials are being dug up.
According to other soldiers, Markle often committed thefts in the barracks, and his comrades' lost belongings could always be found in his cabinets, and he was nicknamed "Barracks Pickpockets".
Markle has a short temper, often clashes with his superiors, and has a record of many fights, and this man is obviously a bad soldier.
In the face of various evidence presented by the police, Markle, who had been trying to quibble and deny, finally admitted his crime and changed from a suspect to a "murderer".
He wept bitterly in front of the interrogators, and quibbled, "This incident was completely accidental, and if it wasn't for the girl yelling, I wouldn't have killed him." ”
Hearing such a confession, the case handlers were also very angry, first brutally killed Yin Jinyi and insulted the body, and finally said that it was just an accident, and there was no bottom line for being a human being.
When Markle and the police were fighting wits and courage, the major South Korean media also reported on this scandalous case, and the South Korean people, who had long held grievances against the US military stationed in South Korea, erupted like a volcano, and they took to the streets to hold banners to protest and demand that the murderers be severely punished.
As time went by, things got bigger and bigger, and in order to save face, the high-level US military stationed in South Korea tried to suppress the heat of this matter, but they didn't expect the result to be counterproductive.
The victim's parents came forward to demand that the police try the murderer as soon as possible, and in order to calm the public anger, the US military stationed in South Korea paid $75,000 in compensation to Yoon Jinyi's family.
The killer was sentenced to only 15 years in prison and returned to the United States on medical parole
In 1993, the murder case, which attracted much attention from all over South Korea, ushered in a trial, and a South Korean court found Markle guilty of murder and sentenced him to 15 years in prison.
The explanation given by the adjudicators was that the murderer had already compensated the victim, indicating that his repentant behavior could be punished lightly.
The U.S. military stationed in South Korea did far less harm to the locals than their own backstabs, and Yoon Jinyi's parents were furious when they thought of the tragic murder of their flower-like daughter, who was sentenced to only 15 years in prison in a South Korean court.
The poor couple did not expect that Markle had not spent enough 15 years in prison in South Korea and would be released after 12 years. In 2006, he was released from prison on medical parole, and then returned to the United States to live an ordinary life with impunity.
A few years later, the inhumane case was revealed, and some media broke the news that Yoon Jinyi's parents had refused to pay $75,000 in compensation, and South Korean officials came forward to threaten the families of the deceased to accept the money.
More than 30 years have passed since Yoon was killed in 1992, during which time the US military stationed in South Korea has continued to do whatever it wants, and it seems that they can easily override South Korean law.
In April 1997, a young Korean went to the toilet at a roadside burger restaurant while shopping with his girlfriend. In the store, an American GI named John ran to the toilet to show his companions his sharp dagger and killed the young South Korean.
The girlfriend who waited outside the store for ten minutes didn't see her boyfriend come back, and when she went in, she found that she and her boyfriend had been separated from each other. After more than 20 years of campaigning, John, who fled to the United States in 2015, was brought back to South Korea for retrial.
Looking back at the past, it has been more than 80 years since the US military sent troops to South Korea, and the US military stationed in South Korea has become synonymous with madness in the hearts of the South Korean people, but in the eyes of the people at the bottom of the United States, it is fragrant and sweet.
After some unemployed homeless people in the United States come to South Korea, the average annual salary can reach 250,000 US dollars, which is a reasonable high income even in the United States.
At the same time, because they are soldiers, they can also enjoy a variety of benefits and do not have to pay high taxes.
What is even more troublesome for the South Korean people is that these American GIs openly take drugs and sell drugs, and even collude with some South Korean chaebols and gangsters to disrupt local law and order.
The money to support these US troops in South Korea comes from the South Korean government's revenue, and in 2021 alone, South Korea paid up to $1 billion in military spending, which undoubtedly comes from South Korean taxpayers.
In 2022, a taxi driver was beaten on the head by US troops stationed in South Korea, causing protests from the public again.
It is a pity that the South Korean government has no say in front of the United States, and the American GIs who are far away from home are living a superior life in South Korea, but they have to bear the consequences of the South Korean people.
The reason why the US GIs are so lawless in South Korea is that they have backers, and the United States and South Korea have signed a "US Forces in Korea Agreement."
There is a clear clause in this agreement that South Korean laws do not have any restraining effect on US GIs, which is equivalent to giving US troops a gold medal to avoid death.
What do you think differently about this?