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Dr. Anne Eyre (59) visited Korea in 2019 to attend an international forum to support disaster victims and strengthen their rights. Provided by 4/16 Foundation

“At this time of deep sadness as we mark the first anniversary of Itaewon, please know that people like me all over the world are thinking of you and being with you.” Dr. Ann Eyre (59), who is active in the British disaster victims’ solidarity ‘Disaster Action’, sent a letter to the families and survivors of the Itaewon disaster and Korean citizens on the 29th. Dr. Eyre, a sociologist, became a disaster management expert after surviving the ‘Hillsborough disaster’ in April 1989, at the age of 25, where 97 soccer fans were crushed to death at Hillsborough Stadium in Sheffield, England, and more than 760 were injured. Dr. Eyre said to Korean citizens, “(Bereaved families and survivors) receiving social support, including care from others and the belief that they can get help when needed, makes a big difference in their psychological well-being after a disaster,” adding, “Especially in situations like the first anniversary of a disaster.” “On this anniversary, please focus on these ‘basics’,” he asked. Dr. Eyre’s letter was delivered to the Hankyoreh through the April 16 Foundation on this day, marking the first anniversary of the Itaewon disaster. She said that Dr. Eyre offered words of comfort and solidarity to the bereaved families, survivors, and Korean citizens who were greatly hurt by the Itaewon disaster, as well as advice on how to manage psychological trauma. Dr. Eyre said the shock she felt 34 years ago and the government’s mishandling were repeated in the Itaewon tragedy. He said, “The Itaewon disaster was the result of a failure to manage the crowd in a situation where so many people were crowded in a limited space, like the Hillsborough incident, resulting in many casualties.” He added, “Afterwards, the authorities and people who had not been there criticized us even though we were not responsible, and continued to criticize us and criticize us negatively.” “We created a story and passed on responsibility,” he said. “When you are surrounded by so many scenes of suffering, when horror unfolds all around you, when the difference between life and death seems so random, when you feel that you should have saved someone else, it is natural to feel guilty and not be able to stop thinking about it,” he said. “It’s not your fault that you couldn’t control it,” he said. At the same time, he said that talking about these feelings and thoughts rather than avoiding them was a great help in healing the trauma. Dr. Eyre said, “After the Hillsborough disaster, I still found it helpful to talk to people I trusted about what really happened and how it made me. If you feel ready and want to talk, do so, but if you don’t, that’s okay.” He said. Lastly, Dr. Eyre said to the general public, “Therapists helped me, but in the long run, it was mostly my colleagues who made me understand my own guilt, find out the truth about the disaster, and take responsibility for it,” adding, “This is something that all public officials in the UK need to do.” “It led to the creation of legislation (Hillsborough Law) requiring legal obligations for candor, truth, and responsibility.” “I hope we take the time to understand the tragedy and find meaning,” he said, adding, “This can be a starting point for healing.” Dr. Eyre also sent trauma management guidelines for bereaved families and survivors. Include this with the article. So what should we do? Here are some tips and suggestions for you to choose from. And advice from trauma experts is included in the box. You are the expert on yourself. You will find out for yourself what is best for you. • Stay in touch with loved ones who support you, and give yourself time and loving care. • Decide whether you will participate in memorial activities and ceremonies. Decide whether you want to share publicly or participate in a private way. Many people find rituals and connecting with others helpful, but it is important to have choice and control over them. Many people may feel that it is a particularly anxious time as anniversaries approach, but they may also feel a sense of relief once they have passed. • Try to organize and resolve your emotions and thoughts. Journaling, talking, and exercising are all ways to help your body digest stress and avoid letting emotions build up. • Your private thoughts and feelings can help someone. It may also be helpful to talk to someone you trust or someone who can talk to you (a survivor of another disaster). Please remember that you are worthy of their support and understanding. • Avoid focusing too much on images, news and social media. Ask yourself if looking at social media is really helpful right now. If not, please take a break. • Please understand that people are upset. You can too. It is natural to fall into indescribable sadness and feel unable to work at all. There is no need to try to understand all those feelings. It’s just how grief and trauma work. • Anger and sadness are not all bad. Anger can also give us energy to stay resilient and focus on what needs to be done. However, if your anger does not subside over time, grows larger, or becomes unbearable, seek help. Why are these things important? 1) Because you deserve it. You did not want this to happen, and you are not responsible for Itaewon and other tragedies. (You could also try talking about survivor’s guilt if that’s what you’re thinking about.) 2) Once you’ve sorted out your emotions, you’ll have a space to socialize and act out with others. (Including the search for truth and justice in Itaewon) However, I sincerely hope that you will not be inactive at the expense of your precious self. Reporter Go Byeong-chan kick@hani.co.kr
2023-10-29 22:00:25
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Illustration by Seonhwan Jang

The night at the hospital is quiet yet busy. At 9 p.m., when the lights in the hospital room turn off and darkness falls, the patient and guardian lie down on the small bed as if they are finding their seats. A hospital room with little activity even during the day is like a still life painting with no sound or movement when the lights are off. Unlit hospital rooms and bright hallways, lying patients and busy medical staff. We seemed to live in different spaces and times. After being a caregiver for two weeks in an unfamiliar environment, I had a hard time falling asleep. The nurse checked her mother’s condition approximately every three hours. Perhaps a meaningful story will come out? I, who was lying on the cot, jumped up and gathered my scattered mind at the sound of a medical cart approaching, like a new soldier in full military gear. Against the wall of the cot, the mother placed 100 cans of bottled water, 60 cans of nutritious drinks, and clothes to drink for five weeks. Even my legs, which wouldn’t be able to support me with short shoes anywhere, couldn’t straighten properly here. I had to stay here for two weeks.

Check urine output every 2 hours throughout the night.

In particular, we had to check the amount of food, including water, and the amount of bowel movements to see if there were any adverse reactions to the child’s body due to medication administration, etc., but the mother, who had fluids hanging from her arms, had difficulty going to the bathroom alone, so she quietly said, “Soso, mommy’s bathroom,” every time. Urine volume: 350 ml at 11 p.m., 300 ml at 2 a.m., 200 ml at 4:45 a.m., 350 ml at 7:30 a.m. . My nights were as busy as her mother’s trips to the bathroom. It was difficult to sleep for more than two hours, so I wondered if mothers raising infants would feel this way if they did not get a full night’s sleep. The first time I received my mom’s urine in the urine container, I was quite embarrassed. If she was not able to properly place the urine container between her legs, or if her mother applied too much force to her legs, the rubber packing would inevitably separate from the urine container and fall on the bathroom floor. The urine that my mother couldn’t stop quickly soaked my hands, her mother’s patient gown, and her underwear. “are you okay. She told her mother, “I’ll quickly bring a hospital gown and new underwear,” but whether it was because of her fluid or the drinking water, her mother had to change the hospital gown as many as three or four times a day. It took time to get used to my mother calling me to the bathroom every two to three hours. My mother was hospitalized in a semi-sterile room for two. Before she entered the sterile room, she was in the hospital room where she stayed during the hematopoietic stem cell collection stage. Across from her were four semi-sterile rooms that could accommodate four adult female patients, four adult male patients, and multiple children and adolescents, but she was already assigned to a double room with multiple rooms. Unlike a regular hospital room, each bed had an additional layer of vinyl curtains in front of the cloth curtains. It appeared to be intended to protect patients with weakened immune systems. Mansong Mansong hair may seem unfamiliar, but my mother thought the bandana worn by cancer patients was cumbersome, so she took it off as soon as she entered her hospital room. I may have gained courage because most of the patients with similar illnesses had bald heads. My mother boldly showed off her bald head and walked back and forth several times a day down the hallway of her hospital room, which was only 20 to 30 meters long. As she walked down the hallway of the hospital room, she said hello to other patients and caregivers she encountered. Although her fractured spine has further reduced her short stature, her mother’s back looks much more comfortable, perhaps because she has people like her. Walking down the hospital hallway with her mother, there are four rooms with closed doors on either side of her hallway. This is a ‘sterile room’ where patients who have received hematopoietic stem cell transplantation stay. The only time the hospital room door was open was for meals and when the medical staff was providing treatment. Of course, just because the door opens doesn’t mean the people inside can get out. When a staff member places a meal tray in front of the hospital room door, the guardian who opens the door carefully takes the tray in, finishes eating, and puts it out in front of the door. As I was walking down the hallway, the view inside the sterile room through the small window of the hospital room door was even more motionless than the hospital room with the lights off. It was impossible to guess what the pores were like for those who had to live in ‘confinement’ in a hospital room for about three weeks without moving.
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Mother angry for the first time after cancer diagnosis

A day after my mother was hospitalized, a female patient in her 40s moved into the bed across from me. She was a patient who had completed a hematopoietic stem cell transplant and was moved to a semi-sterile room for her recovery. As a patient with lymphoma, he was unable to eat at all and was unable to move to the point where he had to relieve himself in a portable toilet next to his bed with the help of a caregiver. Seeing him, her mother was worried about him entering the clean room alone. “Ugh… I can’t do it alone, I can’t do it. How difficult is it in a sterile room? It’s hard for parents too! Originally, I said I couldn’t go into the sterile room because it was difficult, but I had no choice but to go in because the patient’s condition was so bad and there was no family member to take care of him. “The sterile room is so stuffy and difficult.” While her patient neighbor was away for an examination, the caregiver made a fuss about her and told her mother about her clean room situation. The more she listened to her story, the deeper the wrinkles between her mother’s eyebrows became. She said, “She is very worried about her mother going into the sterile room unaccompanied. Can you please tell her that even if she goes in alone, she will come out treated well?” At this point, the only thing she could trust was the nurse. It was only after hearing what her nurse said that Mom relaxed a little. Two days later, another patient was admitted to a double room, and her mother was moved to a semi-sterile four-bed room. In her four-person room, there were two patients with multiple myeloma and one patient with lymphoma, like her mother. The multiple myeloma patient was a pastor who had completed a hematopoietic stem cell transplant and a restaurant owner who was about to undergo a transplant, and the lymphoma patient was a person who came to Seoul in pursuit of his last hope after hearing from a local university hospital that there was no further treatment available. She said, “I was diagnosed with stage 4. The hospital said I had 3 months to live, but 3 months have already passed. The shaman told me that I would be fine as long as I survived Liberation Day, and it turned out that since Liberation Day passed, I started eating well. I don’t think I’m going to die. “I don’t think I’ll die.” The lymphoma patient said: She was so brave that she didn’t look like she was sick at all, and seeing the pastor who went into the sterile room alone and was recovering alone made me compare her to the mother who was in much better condition and couldn’t seem to frown even though she was with her daughter. “Mom, they are also living so bravely. “Cheer up, Mom, too,” she said, the first time she got angry since her mother was diagnosed with cancer. “I’m doing my best too!!” she said. Oops! I wanted to. K, who suddenly took on ‘mother care’ – her eldest daughter talks about the parental care that young people experience in an aging society.

2023-10-29 00:00:18
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In Yo-han, Chairman of the Innovation Committee of the People Power Party, is giving a greeting at the first meeting of the Innovation Committee held at the central party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul on the 27th. yunhap news

When the People Power Party Innovation Committee (Chairman In Yo-han) brought out the ‘no questions asked, large pardon’ card for those who were disciplined by the party’s ethics committee for ‘Innovation Plan No. 1’ on the 27th, the parties said, “It’s not a joke, don’t do something like that.” “I oppose it,” he protested. Daegu Mayor Hong Jun-pyo, who was suspended for 10 months from his party membership for playing golf during a flood in the Gyeongbuk region last July, posted on his Facebook page, “I do not want a pardon. “It’s not a joke, don’t do something like that,” he said. “It’s been a long time since I broke up with Kim Ki-hyun’s leadership.” He said, “He is not running in the general election and has no intention of getting involved in the general election.” He continued, “Don’t make jokes like that by including people who will run for general elections. “I feel much lighter now that the general election has been ruled out,” he said. “After the general election, we can start politics anew with the changed political landscape.” “I hope you all do well in the general election,” he wrote. Former leader Lee Jun-seok, who was suspended for 1 year and 6 months from his party membership in October last year for suspicions of being a teacher who destroyed evidence of sexual favors and for making remarks toward President Yoon Seok-yeol such as ‘two-headed-gu-yuk’ and ‘new military government’, also posted on Facebook on the same day, “I am trying to seize control of the party.” “It is the job of the Innovation Committee to publicly point out and reflect on the unreasonable things that have happened, but this kind of approach, as if showing generosity as a pledge of superiority, makes the situation worse,” he said. “I am against the idea of ​​the Innovation Committee.” “Do something more fundamental that points out the tyranny of power,” he criticized. Previously, the Innovation Committee held its first meeting this afternoon at the party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, and set as its first innovation agenda the ‘don’t ask questions, amnesty’ of Supreme Council member Kim Jae-won, former CEO Lee, and Mayor Hong, who were disciplined for one year with party membership suspended for causing controversy over abusive language. decided. Reporter Son Hyun-soo boysoo@hani.co.kr
2023-10-27 11:51:10
#Innovation #Committees #ambassadorial #pardon #Lee #Junseok #Hong #Junpyo #indifferent.. #Dont #play

Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is speaking at the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on the morning of the 27th. Senior Reporter Kim Bong-gyu bong9@hani.co.kr

Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, criticized President Yoon Seok-yeol’s absence from the citizens’ memorial rally for the first anniversary of the Itaewon disaster (on the 29th), citing it as a ‘political rally’, saying, “If the president officially participates, no one will be able to say it is a political rally.” . At a meeting of the party’s top committee held at the National Assembly on the morning of the 27th, Representative Lee said, “The President’s Office, which declared its absence from the citizens’ memorial rally commemorating the first anniversary of the Itaewon disaster, said that the reason was because it was a political rally. “If both the ruling and opposition parties participate, it can’t be a political rally,” he said. He then criticized, “After creating conditions for it to be evaluated as a political rally, he said, ‘I cannot participate because it is a political rally.’” Representative Lee emphasized that President Yoon should attend the memorial service and apologize to the victims’ families. Representative Lee said, “Protecting the lives and safety of the people is the nation’s responsibility and the most important thing the president must do,” and “(the president) must apologize. He said, “He must offer his condolences to the families of the wronged victims.” Representative Lee also said, “We must take measures to prevent recurrence (to prevent disasters),” and added, “That is to keep the president’s promise to the people to create a safe society.” Reporter Kang Jae-gu j9@hani.co.kr
2023-10-27 02:18:05
#Lee #Jaemyeong #President #Yoons #Itaewon #memorial #service #talk #political #rallies

A view of the Seoul Central District Court building in Seocho-gu, Seoul. Hankyoreh file photo

‘The victim is not worthy of being a victim.’ This is the reason why the first trial court in charge of the ‘former South Chungcheong Governor Ahn Hee-jung’s sexual assault case’ declared former Governor Ahn not guilty in 2018. Criticism was raised that the ruling was lenient on the perpetrator by failing to take into account various factors, including the hierarchical relationship within the workplace and the fact that sexual violence stems from gender role norms that allow sexual aggression for men and require a passive attitude for women. In order to properly judge the guilt or innocence of a sexual assault perpetrator and provide restorative justice for the victim, the court must have ‘gender awareness sensitivity’, but it was found that one out of two judges did not participate in ‘mandatory gender awareness training’. According to the data on the ‘Status of Judges’ Participation in Gender Sensitivity Education by Experience’ submitted by the office of Democratic Party of Korea Rep. Lee Tan-hee from the National Court Administration on the 26th, the participation rate of judges in gender-responsive education over the past five years was 44.5% in 2018 and 40.5% in 2019. ), but dropped to its lowest level at 35.8% in 2020, when COVID-19 was prevalent. This ratio was 53.3% in 2021 and 51.8% in 2022, and rose slightly to 53.6% this year (January to July), but it was still only half of the level. The participation rate in gender awareness training for chief judges (with more than 15 years of experience), who determine the direction of legal interpretation of cases in the settlement department, is lower. 43.1% in 2018, 43.9% in 2019, 26.0% in 2020, 58.1% in 2021, and 42.1% in 2022, less than half. The Judicial Research and Training Institute conducts gender awareness training every year for judges with more than five years of court experience in accordance with the Gender Equality Basic Act. In the relevant training, ‘Beyond gender equality – diversity, a harmonious society’, ‘A balanced sense of gender equality that a judge must have’, ‘Gender equality from a judge and his/her calling’, ‘For a balanced gender recognition of judges’, ‘Trial and gender’ ‘ and so on. Regarding the reason for the low training participation rate, the National Court Administration said, “Gender awareness training for judges by experience is usually conducted over two years, so (participation rate) is structurally around 50%,” adding, “(compulsory training that must be conducted every year according to law) ‘4 He explained, “We have integrated anti-violence prevention education and gender awareness education.” However, under the current law, there is no basis for integrating the four major violence prevention education and gender awareness education. When this fact was pointed out, the National Court Administration said, “This year, separate from the four major violence prevention trainings, we plan to conduct separate gender awareness training for all court employees nationwide, including judges.” Experts explain that gender awareness education for judges is absolutely necessary. Kim Soo-jeong, secretary general of the Korea Women’s Hotline, said, “Sexual violence (rape, forcible molestation) cases have a higher first-trial acquittal rate than other general criminal cases,” and added, “Gender violence such as sexual violence occurs in unequal relationships where women are not seen as equals. “Judges need to receive gender-sensitive education to properly understand this context,” he said. The Supreme Court also ruled in 2018, “When the court hears a case of sexual assault or sexual harassment, it must be careful not to lose ‘gender sensitivity’ so that it can understand the issue of gender discrimination in the context in which the incident occurred and realize gender equality.” . Rep. Lee Tan-hee said, “Judges with gender sensitivity must be able to consider the situation and position of the victim to prevent rash punishments such as sentence reductions that are excessively focused on the defendant.” He added, “The participation rate in education should be lowered so that judges can develop gender sensitivity. Of course, the court must seriously consider ways to improve the effectiveness of education,” he said. Reporter Oh Se-jin 5sjin@hani.co.kr
2023-10-26 22:00:39
#단독 #judges #receive #mandatory #gender #awareness #training