Social Affairs
114 women murdered by husbands, boyfriends in 2014
March 8, 2015
A total of 114 women were murdered by their husbands or boyfriends last year, according to statistics by Korea Women’s Hot Line, a Seoul-based women’s rights advocacy group, released Saturday.The tally also showed that 95 women survived attacks from their partners.By age, 25 percent of the victims were in their 40s, followed by women in their 50s (17 percent) and their 30s (10 percent). Such figures reveal that women in a wide range of age groups are the victims of violence, the group said.The n