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Entering | Living as a Lawyer for Victims

Part 1: How to Open Silence

As a human being before being a victim
I am not a human rights lawyer
That violence has no name
Language of damage
A child's world isn't always warm.
It's okay because it's fake
A lawyer considering rejection

Words that prove the existence of Part 2

It was wrong then and it's wrong now
Even lawyers are sometimes victims.
He was the king of my world, and I was terrified of him.
Before I knew it, I had become 'fun'
Law made through sacrifice
Stories of those who persevered
Time Missed by the Law, Crimes Against Chastity

In a place where the third part of justice cannot reach

Even if you hit your head with a hammer, you get a suspended sentence
Will citizen participation trials be beneficial to victims?
Why don't you apologize?
He's gone, and I'm left behind.
Is there any refreshing revenge?

Part 4: Words that protect each other

exhaustion, exhaustion
I am a lawyer representing victims.
The law has a heart

Going out | Protecting people until the word reaches them

In a society where everyone is a victim or a perpetrator,
How can we find our center?

In 2023 alone, 44,238 cases of sexual violence, 48,522 cases of child abuse, and 44,524 cases of domestic violence were reported.
However, this is only a ‘reported’ figure.
The actual scale of the damage is much larger and more complex when including victims who were unable to speak out.
Words like victim's suffering, secondary damage, incomplete judgment, and institutional indifference are no longer unfamiliar, but that familiarity raises another question.
“Could it be that I was the perpetrator?” Perhaps we too have ignored or exacerbated someone’s wounds.
Harm can occur without intent, and damage is considered non-existent unless proven.
We must ask within that boundary.
In an age where anyone can be either a victim or a perpetrator, what standards should we live by? This book doesn't simply answer that question; it provides a space for inquiry.
And says:
Justice is not something that happens only in the courtroom.
That every moment we choose where to listen and how to respond must be rewritten.

Past inertia creates present suffering

The 'remnants of old thinking' that remain deeply rooted even today threaten the dignity of victims.
Although legally gone, the standards that still operate on the margins of judgment (victimhood, sense of chastity, family-centeredness, statute of limitations) create a structure in which victims must constantly prove themselves.
Although the narrative has shifted from being centered on the perpetrator to being centered on the victim, victims are still only accepted as 'real' if they cry, run away, and are weak.
If the reporting time is late or the victim's feelings are expressed differently than expected, it is suspected to be 'fake'.
For example, although the "crime of chastity" has been abolished, the practice of the victim's sexual history influencing the verdict is not easily eliminated.
Domestic violence and dating violence are reduced to the term "intimate relationship," and the truth revealed after silence becomes powerless in the face of the statute of limitations.
Even if the perpetrator commits suicide, the case is immediately closed due to lack of prosecution, so the victim's pain is pushed aside as an 'unprovable emotion'.
The moral standards and institutional inertia of the past still exclude victims.
"Names Outside the Court" examines the cracks left by those remnants through the eyes of the victims, calmly asking what we have failed to change and what we still turn a blind eye to.

If it's wrong now, it was wrong then.
Was it truly okay for a past where chastity and purity were prioritized over women's physical safety and rights? Of course, we can't judge the entire past by today's standards.
But is it right to justify something that happened half a century ago? Is it acceptable to treat a human being that way? Whether suspect or defendant, woman or man, child or adult, consideration for humanity is a given.
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Part 1 explores how victims of sexual violence, domestic violence, and child abuse break the silence amidst social conventions and self-censorship.
It explains how violence that is not addressed by the law, such as dating violence, digital sex crimes, stalking, and workplace bullying, is worsening and creating countless victims.

Part 2 explores the violence that victims who break their silence face within the legal structure, where they are once again asked to prove their case and are constantly subjected to verification.
Through incidents that have raised major issues in Korean society, such as the tongue-cutting incident known as the Choi Mal-ja incident, the Telegram Nth Room incident, the MeToo movement against Lee Yoon-taek, and the Kim Tae-hyun murder case, we confront head-on the society that empowers the perpetrators.

Part 3 documents instances when the law and institutions do not stand by the victims.
It highlights the blind spots of the citizen participation trial, the absence of the right to prosecute due to the perpetrator's suicide, the victim becoming a suspect after being sued after reporting the perpetrator, and the reality of victims having to fight with everything they have, such as the formal apology to the judge rather than the victim.


The final part 4 talks about people who help victims.
They explain what they want to protect, what ethics are necessary to avoid burnout, and why they must continue this work.
This book reminds us that the law does not lead us, but follows us, and that loopholes in the law are more influenced by the 'people' who interpret them.
This is why I need to change first rather than just blaming the law.

Is recovery truly an individual responsibility?

Have you ever felt that way? Your words were ignored, your silence enforced, your pain spoken out, only to be met with suspicion.
“Names Outside the Court” starts from that familiar, yet cool, feeling.
Damage is not a simple 'incident'.
Unspoken emotions, unrecovered relationships, and even unanswered moments all bear the face of damage.
So whose responsibility is recovery? People often believe that "time will heal."
But the victim's recovery is never the responsibility of an individual.
Recovery can begin, be delayed, or become impossible forever, depending on how institutions, laws, society, and communities respond.
The right to speak, a society that believes in us, and a system that does not erase our existence are the minimum conditions for recovery.

So, rather than asking, “Who is right?” this book asks, “How should we listen?” and “How should we respond?”
The author offers victims a way to speak in their own words, advocates a way to listen, and society as a whole offers a sense of responsibility and a sense of collective recovery.
Yes, that's right.
This story is not just about the victims.
It is a story for all who have memories that have not been honored, a language of recovery and transformation that allows us to name and retell those memories.
We must remember.
The law is always behind us.
When people move, only then does the law move.
“Names Outside the Court” aims to take the first step in that movement.