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Sat, May 21, 2022 | 21:20
Professor accused of abusing her son’s ex-fiancee
대학 교수와 미혼모의 진실 공방
Posted : 2011-11-04 18:37
Updated : 2011-11-04 18:37
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A woman holds a placard on the campus of a university in Seoul, Thursday, accusing a female professor of the school of having threatened her to abort her baby, the professor’s grandchild.
/ Captured from a Twitter account
By Kim Tae-jong

A woman, carrying her new-born baby, staged a solo rally holding a placard on the campus of a private university in Seoul Thursday, drawing the attention of passing students.

She was protesting against one of the professors at the university, who is her baby’s grandmother, accusing the professor of having tried to force her to abort the baby. She also claimed the professor regularly verbally abused her.

Carrying her new-born baby in her arms, the 28-year-old stood holding a sign, reading “I became pregnant following my engagement. But my fiance’s mother broke us up when I was six months into the pregnancy. She then tried to force me to have an abortion right up until my eighth month.”

On the placard, she listed her complaints, using the real name of the professor and her department.

The professor is known to have consulted on issues related to the welfare of women and adolescents.

The woman fiercely denounced the baby’s grandmother, saying she has led a miserable life for over a year because of the professor. “The hypocritical and inhumane behavior of the professor, whose job is to consult single moms and families, has put me in pain for over a year.”

According to her, she met the baby’s father three years ago. Initially, she wasn’t sure whether she could maintain the relationship with him because of his “elite” family background and expected objections from his parents.

But they fell in love and decided to move into the girl’s house together in Busan to avoid his parents and lived there for seven months.

In late 2009, they went to the U.S. together to study, but months later they found out she was pregnant. They came back to Korea for a wedding and told the man’s parents about the pregnancy.

The man’s mother forced him to break up with her and then tried to make her have an abortion. He then suddenly went back to the U.S. leaving her here alone.

She gave birth and became a single mother. She tried talk to the baby’s father and grandmother but they have kept avoiding her or treated her badly.

The professor refuted the accusation saying she had never tried to force the young woman to have an abortion although she admitted she repeatedly asked her son to break up with her.

“I’ve never asked her to have an abortion. I heard that they had discussed it though,” the professor said in an interview with Nocut News. “I offered to raise the baby, but the mother rejected it saying I would put her up for adoption.”

She also said she will file a defamation suit against the single mother.

But she was not available for a further interview for this article.

When the protest was made public, online message boards and social networking sites such as Twitter were flooded with comments criticizing the professor.

“I saw the woman holding a placard on campus. She looked so sad. It’s a disgrace that the professor works at my school,” a student said on a message board.

대학 교수와 미혼모의 진실 공방
지난 목요일, 신생아를 안은 한 여성이 서울의 한 대학 캠퍼스에서 피켓을 들고 시위를 하고 있었다. 그녀는, 자신의 딸의 할머니이자 이 대학의 교수가 아이를 낙태하도록 강요했으며 폭언도 계속했다고 주장하며 시위를 벌였다. 28살의 미혼모가 들고 있는 피켓에는 “미혼모를 상담하고 가족 상담을 한다는 xxx교수의 이중성과 비인간적인 행동들로 인해 1년이 넘는 시간과 고통을 견디며 살아가고 있습니다” 라고 쓰여 있었다. 피켓에는 교수의 실명과 학과의 이름이 그대로 적혀 있었고, 그 밖의 불만들이 빼곡히 쓰여 있었다. 이 교수는 대학에서 여성과 청소년들의 복지와 관련된 상담 업무로 유명하다. 이 여성은 아이의 할머니로 인해 지난 1년간 고통스러운 시간을 보냈으며, 임신 8개월까지 계속 낙태를 강요당했다고 주장했다. 그녀의 주장에 따르면, 아이의 아빠와는 3년 전에 만났다고 한다. 남자 집안의 반대로 인해, 약혼 이후 두 사람은 여자의 집에서 7개월간 함께 지냈고 이후 어학연수를 위해 2009년 말쯤 미국으로 떠났다. 미국에 도착해서 몇 달이 지나, 여자의 임신 사실을 알게 된 두 사람은 결혼을 위해 한국으로 돌아왔고, 임신 사실을 남자의 부모에게 알렸다. 하지만 이때부터, 남자의 어머니는 집요하게 둘 사이를 갈라 놓으려고 했고, 낙태를 강요하기 시작했다고 한다. 어느 날, 아이의 아빠는 그녀의 곁을 떠났고, 홀로 아이를 낳아 키워야만 했다. 아이의 아빠와 할머니와 연락을 취하려고 했지만, 돌아오는 것은 무응답이거나 무시였다고 그녀는 밝혔다. 이런 주장에 대해, 해당 교수는 두 사람이 헤어지기를 요청한 적은 있지만, 낙태를 강요한 적은 없다고 밝혔다. 또한 그녀의 행동에 대해 명예훼손으로 고발할 생각이라고 했다.
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