Mother’s murder of daughter lays bare South Korea’s deepening debt crisis

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Mother strangles daughter over multimillion-dollar debt and receives sentence has been one of the most shocking cases in South Korea in recent times. A woman believed her family would never be able to pay off a multimillion-dollar debt in South Korea and drugged her adult daughter before strangling her. After an appeal, the court increased the original sentence from 12 to 15 years in prison. The 33-year-old victim was killed on February 12, 2023…

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Katarzyna W. (35), the mother of battered Madzia from Sosnowiec, refuses to work behind bars. In January 2024, her debt totaled PLN 146,000. It currently stands at over PLN 141,500. Over the past year and a half, it has decreased only slightly, by just over PLN 4,500. "Either Katarzyna W. hasn't worked very long, or she spent the money she earned on so-called sick leave, shopping at the canteen, and spending it on her own needs," says one prison…