9-Year-Old Jisu’s Death Reveals Cult-Like Abuse by Teacher Park
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SBS ‘Kkokkomu’ shed light on the brutal reality of child abuse in everyday life through the case of 9-year-old Jisu, who died from confinement and assault.
Broadcast on the 4th, “Tails of Tales” (directed by Lee Keun-byeol, Lee Dong-won, Kim Byung-gil, hereinafter ‘Kkokkomu’) Episode 202, titled ‘Everyone Killed – Teacher Park and the Puppet Mother,’ featured music director Kim Moon-jung, actors Kim So-eun, and Han Ji-hyun as listeners, tracing how a distorted psychological dominance structure led to the tragic child abuse.
The case began in 2016 when police called Im Nam-sook, who was caring for Jimin and her mother in a Cheonan sauna. Police informed Im that Jimin had an older sister, Jisu, aged 9, who had not attended school for two years, and Jimin also had no attendance records. During the investigation, Jisu’s mother, Soo-jin, repeatedly changed her statements, citing marital issues and financial hardship. Eventually, police arrested her urgently, revealing that Soo-jin had lived with Eun-ha’s family and Teacher Park in an apartment in Yongin, Gyeonggi Province. Contrary to her initial claim that Jisu disappeared from a playground, evidence of prolonged confinement and assault emerged. Jisu’s body was eventually found buried in a mountain in Gyeonggi Province, killed by her biological mother’s assault, sparking public outrage.
The 9-year-old Jisu was repeatedly beaten while taped to a chair and confined to a balcony for over 20 days. Soo-jin, her biological mother, claimed this was “discipline” and said, “I should have scolded her harder,” infuriating everyone. Kim So-eun exclaimed in shock, “Is she crazy?”
The case was overturned by testimony from Min-chan, Eun-ha’s 6-year-old son at the time. He testified that not only the two families but also Teacher Park’s family of 11 lived together in the apartment, and that he, Jisu, and Jimin were constantly confined to the balcony. The person who ordered the binding to chairs, prolonged neglect, and assaults was not the biological mother but Teacher Park. Using investments and loans as bait, Teacher Park psychologically dominated Soo-jin and Eun-ha, ordering assaults—sometimes up to 100 blows a day. It was akin to a cult leader.
On the day Jisu died, Teacher Park claimed to have received a divine revelation, saying, “This child will kill us all,” and ordered the assault. Jisu eventually died from hypovolemic shock due to malnutrition and repeated assaults. Kim So-eun wept, “She’s so pitiful,” upon learning she could have survived with hospital care. Kim Moon-jung, shocked by Teacher Park’s extreme devotion to his own children, said, “He’s a psychopath. Even that word is an insult.”
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