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Watch Sleuths of Seoul on SBS On Demand . Sleuths Of Seoul Content warning: This article contains descriptions of physical assault and references to sexual assault. It was known as the Busan Roundhouse Kick Case, and it rocked South Korean society and notions of justice to the core. In the early hours of 22 May 2022, the victim — who uses the alias Jin-ju — was returning home after an evening out with a friend. She entered her complex foyer and pressed the elevator button to head up to her apartment. Jin-ju’s next memory was waking up in a hospital bed, badly beaten and suffering serious injuries to her head and brain. "I heard I had been beaten by a stranger, and that was all I knew," Jin-ju says. CCTV footage would later show in graphic detail what happened to her. A man had followed her into the apartment building, approached her from behind and launched into a full roundhouse kick to Jin-ju’s head. She fell to the ground and he continued to pummel her. As she lay unconscious, the assailant picked her up and carried her to a CCTV blind spot. It wasn’t until the man's trial that she first heard she may have been sexually assaulted. Source: SBS The missing footage Even though she was the victim in the case, Jin-ju felt strangely disconnected from the process. "It felt like I didn’t belong in this case," she says. "I didn't know what kind of incident I had been involved in." As the trial began, her sense of estrangement from the case only deepened. Noh re-enacts murder cases for fun. But South Korea's crime obsession has a dark side "It just made no sense from beginning to end. The attacker could have free legal representation, but I didn’t. I am still in debt because of it." To access the trial records, Jin-ju had to file a civil lawsuit, which exposed her personal details including her home address to her attacker. Months later, he made verbal threats against Jin-ju and her family. "There was no protection for me when I saw the attacker in court. I felt like just part of the audience." "It feels like the judicial system just doesn’t care about my life," she says. "Korea is a country where it’s hard to live as a victim." Source: SBS It was only when sitting in court that Jin-ju learned of a missing seven minutes in CCTV coverage when she’d been carried to the camera blind spot — the first mention she may have been sexually assaulted. "I had no idea. No one told me about it," she says. "There was no protection for victims in this and it seemed like I was seen to be more of an obstruction to the trial process." Jin-ju’s attacker was eventually sentenced to 12 years in prison for attempted murder — eight years less than the term sought by the prosecution. The main reason: the judge wouldn’t consider the possibility of sexual assault. The TV show Jin-ju had taken the case as far as she could in the courts, but felt true justice had still not been delivered. So she had to look elsewhere for the justice she sought. "I wrote a petition to a true crime TV show called ‘Want to Know That’. I wasn’t trying to make up a crime that didn’t exist but was trying to show the most likely motive for attempted murder was attempted sexual assault and that DNA testing was needed." Source: SBS Want to Know That is South Korea’s most popular true-crime investigation TV program. The weekly show breaks down past and active crimes and actively accepts tips from viewers. It’s just one of dozens of true crime TV shows on national TV and online, all riding a wave of fascination with true crime in South Korea. The show has a huge female audience, believed to be because South Korea has a higher ratio of female victims of violent crime than many other nations, including Western countries. In 2020, women accounted for 44.8 per cent of homicide victims in South Korea, compared with 20 per cent in the United States and around 30 per cent in Australia, according to statistics from the Korean National Police Agency. The appeal Want to Know That carried out its own forensic investigation of Jin-ju’s case, looking into the possibility she was sexually assaulted. The episode, which aired in April 2023, sparked public outrage and calls for the case to be reviewed. Jin-ju filed for an appeal. The attacker had already appealed his sentence and during those hearings the judge buckled to public pressure and allowed for more extensive DNA testing. 'I had to act like a doll': Why some K-pop stars are rebelling against the industry's 'impossible' standards In September that year, the Busan High Court handed the attacker a heftier 20-year sentence, recognising the charge of attempted sexual assault. Jin-ju says it gave her eight more years knowing the attacker couldn’t harm her. She believes the TV show influenced the outcome of the appeals hearing. "It changed everything. After the TV show was aired, the judge changed his opinion and agreed to a DNA test," she says. Jin-ju went on to write a book about her ordeal and, in a recent development, her story is set to be made into a film starring Jun Hyo-seong from K-pop girl group Secret. "If it weren't for these shows, I would have probably left this country. Without the media and the prosecutors who helped me, I would not be alive," Jin-ju says. Source: SBS Want to Know That won several awards for its reporting on the case. Producer Kim Jae-hwan says the show’s popularity and the fact that victims turn to the media for help in their pursuit of justice stem from public distrust of authorities. "A social atmosphere seems to have formed in which if someone complains of injustice or a systemic problem, the solution is not sought by addressing the inertia of authorities, but rather through the media." If you or someone you know is impacted by sexual assault, call 1800RESPECT on 1800 737 732, text 0458 737 732, or visit 1800RESPECT.org.au . In an emergency, call 000.Vertical Aerospace Finalises Investment AgreementBiden’s decision to commute sentences for death row inmates sparks social media frenzy
NEW YORK — There's a Christmas Day basketball game at Walt Disney World, featuring Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and Wemby. An animated game, anyway. The real game takes place at Madison Square Garden, where Victor Wembanyama and the San Antonio Spurs face the New York Knicks in a game televised on ABC and ESPN and streamed on Disney+ and ESPN+. The special alt-cast, the first animated presentation of an NBA game, will be shown on ESPN2 and also stream on Disney+ and ESPN+. Madison Square Garden is a staple of the NBA's Christmas schedule. Now it merges with a bigger home of the holidays, because the "Dunk the Halls" game will be staged at Disney, on a court set up right smack in the middle of where countless families have posed for vacation photos. Why that location? Because it was Mickey Mouse's Christmas wish. "Basketball courts often have the ability to make a normal environment look special, but in Disney it can only turn out incredible," Wembanyama said in an ESPN video promoting his Christmas debut. The story — this is Disney, after all — begins with Mickey penning a letter to Santa Claus, asking if he and his pals can host a basketball game. They'll not only get to watch one with NBA players, but some of them will even get to play. Goofy and Donald Duck will sub in for a couple Knicks players, while Mickey and Minnie Mouse will come on to play for the Spurs. "It looks to me like Goofy and Jalen Brunson have a really good pick-and-roll at the elite level," said Phil Orlins, an ESPN vice president of production. Walt Disney World hosted real NBA games in 2020, when the league set up there to complete its season that had been suspended by the COVID-19 pandemic. Those games were played at the ESPN Wide World of Sports. The setting for the Christmas game will be Main Street USA, at the entrance of the Magic Kingdom. Viewers will recognize Cinderella's castle behind one baseline and the train station at the other end, and perhaps some shops they have visited in between. Previous alternate animated broadcasts included an NFL game taking place in Andy's room from "Toy Story;" the "NHL Big City Greens Classic" during a game between the Washington Capitals and New York Rangers; and earlier this month, another NFL matchup between the Cincinnati Bengals and Dallas Cowboys also taking place at Springfield's Atoms Stadium as part of "The Simpsons Funday Football." Unlike basketball, the players are helmeted in those sports. So, this telecast required an extra level of detail and cooperation with players and teams to create accurate appearances of their faces and hairstyles. "So, this is a level of detail that we've never gone, that we've never done on any other broadcast," said David Sparrgrove, the senior director of creative animation for ESPN. Wembanyama, the 7-foot-3 phenom from France who was last season's NBA Rookie of the Year, looks huge even among most NBA players. The creators of the alternate telecast had to design how he'd look not only among his teammates and rivals, but among mice, ducks and chipmunks. "Like, Victor Wembanyama, seeing him in person is insane. It's like seeing an alien descend on a basketball court, and I think we kind of captured that in his animated character," said Drew Carter, who will again handle play-by-play duties, as he had in the previous animated telecasts, and will get an assist from sideline reporter Daisy Duck. Wembanyama's presence is one reason the Spurs-Knicks matchup, the leadoff to the NBA's five-game Christmas slate, was the obvious choice to do the animated telecast. The noon EST start means it will begin in the early evening in France and should draw well there. Also, it comes after ABC televises the "Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade" for the previous two hours, providing more time to hype the broadcast. Recognizing that some viewers who then switch over to the animated game may be Disney experts but NBA novices, there will be 10 educational explainers to help with basketball lingo and rules. Beyond Sports' visualization technology and Sony's Hawk-Eye tracking allow the animated players to make the same movements and plays made moments earlier by the real ones at MSG. Carter and analyst Monica McNutt will be animated in the style of the telecast, donning VR headsets to experience the game from Main Street, USA. Other animated faces recognizable to some viewers include NBA Commissioner Adam Silver, who will judge a halftime dunk contest among Mickey and his friends, and Santa himself, who will operate ESPN's "SkyCam" during the game. The players are curious how the production — and themselves — will look. "It's going to be so crazy to see the game animated," Spurs veteran Chris Paul said. "I think what's dope about it is it will give kids another opportunity to watch a game and to see us, basically, as characters." Get local news delivered to your inbox!Conor McGregor says he is 'soon to be vindicated' as he launches furious tirade against his rape accuser Nikita Hand after she won €250,000 from him in court