Comments on: Korean bloggers on Virgina Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui

By: V-Tech: Cho - Early discrepancies in reporting « Lila Rajiva: The Mind-Body Politic

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:14:48 +0000

[...] 1. Cho was first reported as being Chinese and I recall a report that he was 6 ft. He was actually 5 ft. 8″ – much smaller. Here’s an article in the Chicago Sun Times with hat information. This is reportedly the google cache of the original story which is now off the web. It appears to have caused a flurry in the Chinese media and some speculation on how or why the mistake was made. There is also a theory that I saw posted on a Korean blog, which includes more details of the crime scene, and speculates that Cho was killed himself and had an accomplice. It says he was killed with 1 shot to the back of the head and 2 to the chest (haven’t seen this elsewhere), that the real killer was 6 ft and was seen running away (that is supported by other early reports that describe 2 shooters either running away or being apprehended. It also compares Columbine where 3 guns, 2 shooters and 900 bullets were involved in the death of 13 people and notes Cho’s remarkable performance as incompatible with what we know of his firearm skill. 2. He was first reported as having had a relationship with Emily Hilscher, later denied. [...]

By: Cho - new details about security, psych profile, updated 4/29 « Lila Rajiva: The Mind-Body Politic

Sun, 29 Apr 2007 23:05:39 +0000

[...] One blog post theorizes that Cho could not have been the killer, because of the nature of the gunshots that killed him, early descriptions of a killer fleeing the building and of someone who was 6 ft doing the shooting. [...]

By: Ethan Zuckerman

Ethan Zuckerman — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 16:30:21 +0000

Thanks for doing this, Hyejin – it’s a really important set of perspectives that we’re not really hearing in the US right now.

By: Transpacific Triangle » links for 2007-04-28 by Graham Webster

Transpacific Triangle » links for 2007-04-28 by Graham Webster — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 07:21:19 +0000

[...] Global Voices Online » Korean bloggers on Virgina Tech shooter Cho Seung-hui “Another view expressed by Korean bloggers is that Cho Seung-hui was not actually the perpetrator, but a victim and even try to find similarities between 9/11 and this incident.” [...]

By: John Kennedy

John Kennedy — Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:12:21 +0000

This is excellent, Hyejin. Thank you.

By: mahathir_fan

mahathir_fan — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 08:40:01 +0000

At first, I was very surprised that a Korean citizen did it.

Then I read that he moved to the US since he was 9 years old and after that everything made sense.

By: Chris Salzberg

Chris Salzberg — Fri, 27 Apr 2007 02:16:21 +0000

Thanks so much for writing this! It’s really fascinating to read about Korean perspectives on this kind of story, we hear so little about them in Japan.