Ash_bury's Topics (298)

Koogi is NOT allowed to show sexual abuse on underage kids.
I'm not denying that he killed her out of self defense though, it's def possible, depends on if the father is dead at the time when she said she has her own secret.
(I think Sangwoo's mother killed the husband and said the "most painful death" line to the father before she killed him).

Actually Koogi is allowed to show sexual abuse on minors. She did it with Bum, who was raped and molested by his uncle when he was still a minor.

http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/killing_stalking/mf/c026/?av=1.
No he wasn't.

But bum is older than him. OH UR TALKING ABOUT THE UNCLE SCENE

She was talking aboutthe uncle, but Bum wasn't a minor there, so that doesn't matter.

*about the.

Bum was a minor

Are you blind?

I thought he was a kid though...Ah maybe I got the info wrong

Bum was around 19(when you stop being a minor in SK) in the flashback, he enrolled college for 4 years after all, prob because his uncle began to rape him everyday.

I agree and think Bum was a minor, that page is just a translator's note. Even if it is a translation, i think it was heavily implied he was a minor as he couldn't get out of the situation and his uncle treated him like a dependent. "this isn't what it looks like because that'd totally be illegal here, but if that's what you take from it then whatever >_>". I think we were supposed to take it as that he was a minor, obviously.

This is literally a note to the readers that he isn't a minor there.
Why would they specifically make a note to say that he's a minor there.
This is after his high school time, there also passed time in Chap 25.

And it makes sense since he said he enrolled college because of "family circumstances".

Actually i think he was supposed to be a minor but they had to put a disclaimer (and in Korean it says all the character in the story are adults, not just Bum), after all in chapter 25 the Uncle is Bum's guardian ( the policeman asked him that) and if Bum was already an adult he didn't need a guardian or he wouldn't have still lived with the uncle and the grandma. So they put a disclaimer because the rape scene is more explicit and Bum is shown in a sexual way

I said that some time passed in Chap 25.
Look at Bum there, and then in Chap 26( http://www.mangago.zone/read-manga/killing_stalking/mf/c026/14/)
He's bigger there.
So I think Bum was 18 when he was in the police station and 19 in the end of the chapter.

Also, Bum being adult doesn't matter if he still lives with the uncle and granda, they're responsible for him.
Bum enrolled college BECAUSE his uncle began to rape him.
If he already did that when Bum was younger, then Bum wouldn't have went to school.

I want to premise that it's just speculation and it's not confirmed, but you have to know that Koogi said in an interview said that at some point she had issues with censorship and she had to change a thing (specifically the order of some events). I don't think it's for the porn because on Lezhin there's far worse than the light sabers we see in KS so it must be for other reasons, and I thought that probably it was related to Bum being a minor in chapter 25, where the Uncle started to lust upon him and the end of the chapter hints to the sexual assault that we see in chapter 26. The disclaimer with Bum's age is just in chapter 26 when the things are way more explicit, and in the Korean version it doesn't say that Bum is older than 19 but it's a more generic " All the character in the story are adults". I think it's a just a smart way to avoid censorship and some fees without lying ( the characters in the story are actually adults but it doesn't specify that are adults in that flashback)
Imo in those chapters Bum is a minor, probably in his early teens, his body is changing and he started to feel sexual impulses ( I thought that he hit puberty and now the Uncle is attracted to his adolescent body that reminds him of his former girlfriend, as we can see in the scene where Bum comes out of the bathroom after showering and his legs are bare). In the chapter, especially in the Korean version, there are a few references to the fact he's still a student, and tbh if he was an adult I don't think the Uncle would have felt the obligation to keep him in his home. It's still possible that he went to school (which is obligatory) even if the Uncle raped him when he was a teen, Yoonjae, who was his classmate during middle school, knew something about the Uncle and this is the reason why the girl approached him in the flashback in chapter 19, she knew they were in the same situation. Long story short, I think Bum was a minor, but don't worry, this doesn't mean I think Sangwoo was molested by his mother, on the contrary i hate that theory and I sincerely hope it's not true for several reasons

Now here's the thing, I think Bum started to seek affection after what happend in High School, he was in the police station, but doesn't seem to have been in one before or while in High School.
I know it didn't say he was 19 in it, but that's the age you stop being a minor there so I'm assuming he's 19 in the flasback.
Well I think Bum was a late Bloomer, he still looks young and did so as well while in high school.

Yoonjae and the girl "only" knew that he was physically abused&undernourished by his uncle, I don't think they ever assumed something about rape.

And Bum enrolling college for 4 years because of the rape makes sense, Bum is being physically since little and able to go to school(although crying), and when Jieun&her friend asked him sarcastically, he said it was because of family circumstances.
I just think that's the most logical way, even though it's just sad.
Bum never went to school in the flashback, so I just think it was between those 4 years


Same, I think it was mostly emotionally.

Yeah, this^ is exactly what i was thinking too. I'm just not trying to start an argument and already said what i had to say, it's just that the way you worded this was nice so i wanted to say i agree. Just following the events, it was obvious to me that he was implied to be a minor. How would Bum have gotten away to enroll in college? He's very timid.

If you say it like this, how would he have gotten away at all.
I always assumed he began to get into college when he found his own apartment.
We never saw him in school in the flashback and he looks bigger in Chap 26 than in Chap 25.To me, it looked like Bum began to get his seeking affection traits after what happend in high school, so when he was in the police station, he could've been a minor or not, but it was obviously after high school.
You graduate korean High School around the age of 18/19, yet there was no hint of him going to school in the flashback.
Why? Because it was between the 4 years of him enrolling college.

I think he was drafted and didn't go back, what is the base age you can get drafted there?

Prob 18 or 19?
Idk, I doubt that his uncle would have simply kicked him out, I think Bum simply took the chance and went into his own apartment after saving money for some time.
But he did say in Chap 5 that he lives with his uncle, so I'm imagining his uncle sometimes forcefully visits him to abuse/rape him. Why Bum would let him in? He wouldn't.
The uncle would have another key for the apartment.

The base drafting age is 18, the age of adulthood is 19. I think he was being raped well before he turned 18, then he was drafted for compulsory military service at 18 and emrolled in college after to escape his uncle.

That's wrong though.
The Adult Age is 19 and the warning said he wasn't a minor in the flashback.

Also, Bum went into military after his first year in college.
He met Woo in college and then saw him again in military when he saved him from getting raped.

Oh, okay. I forgot that detail, so i got the timeline wrong, it was really just off the top of my head. As far as the page, i don't take that as proof that he wasn't a minor, of course there is a disclaimer when it's illegal to explicitly show him as a minor.

Wow I didn't expect this to turn into an analysis of Bums life lol! But I do agree with the conversation on his front. I'm not sure of the timeline myself but it seems like you all have done more looking into than me. It's such a poor life for Bum and still is with Sangwoo :(

Yea, the timeline can be really confusing.
Well , it's alright if you think that even though it's heavily hinted at, I can't make you accept something, it's your choice.

This got kinda off topic though, true.