Arrest Galloper, Part 2

Ladies and gentlemen, our long national nightmare is over.

We finally have closure in a terrible tragedy in which  innocent Korean  pedestrians were cut down by  a reckless foreigner,  who managed to evade local justice and (the outrage!) face a quickie trial and light punishment  in his home country’s courts.  Remember the protests and the vigils?  No?  Probably because the driver was a drunk South Korean Hyundai Asan  employee, and the victims were North Korean soldiers.  Two were injured, one died.

It wasn’t even the first incident of its kind.

But all is well that pays well,  for everyone but the poor North Korean.  The South Korean driver was shipped home and had his license pulled (!), and the victim’s family  Kim Jong Il received one million dollars in compensation.  A court has just affirmed the revocation of  a driver’s  license as the only apparent punishment for a speeding, drunk driver  who hit three people and killed one of them. 

Ain’t life just?

(More at GI Korea)