Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Prof Canceled Class for Personal Reasons. Days Later, a Murder Arrest
Newser ^ | Feb 20, 2020 | Evann Gastaldo, Newser Staff Posted Feb 20, 2020

Posted on 02/21/2020 4:16:25 PM PST by nickcarraway

An assistant economics professor at Iowa's Simpson College canceled her classes for what she called a "personal issue." Three days later, she was arrested for the alleged murder of her husband, the Des Moines Register reports. Gowun Park emailed students Sunday to cancel the upcoming week of classes and postpone a test to the following week; police say the 41-year-old had, on Saturday morning, used zip ties and rope to bind Sung Woo Nam's hands and feet to a chair in their home, gagged him with an article of clothing, duct-taped his mouth shut, and duct-taped a towel over his head. About six hours later, they say, Nam, in distress, asked to be released, but Park allegedly refused. Less than two hours after that, officers were called to the condo, where they found Nam unresponsive with ligature marks on his neck. He was pronounced dead at a nearby hospital.

"Ms. Park made efforts to hide and conceal the binding items prior to the arrival of emergency personnel," police said in a criminal complaint. "The injuries sustained by Mr. Nam were not self-inflicted." She was arrested Wednesday, per the college's student newspaper, and faces charges of first-degree murder and first-degree kidnapping. "She was one of the sweetest ladies I've ever known," says an economics major who took five of Park's classes, worked with her on a research project, and had her as an academic adviser. He says in the three years he knew her, Park never mentioned a husband, saying that she was single and that all her family lived in South Korea. Park got her doctorate in 2017 and was hired at Simpson the same year; she has since been suspended. "The recent news has left me and other classmates in shock," says another of her advisees. "We never would have expected her to do anything like this." (Read more murder stories.)


TOPICS: Education; Local News
KEYWORDS:
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last
To: nickcarraway

Didn’t read article. Do her students get credit for the course or do they have to start all over again next semester?


21 posted on 02/21/2020 4:42:45 PM PST by John Milner (Marching for Peace is like breathing for food.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

assistant economics professor at Iowa’s Simpson College
Translation: Lefty activist with no God or moral compass to tell her murder is wrong.


22 posted on 02/21/2020 4:50:48 PM PST by Cyclops08
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Yet another whacked out professor from leftist academia land...


23 posted on 02/21/2020 4:58:09 PM PST by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BenLurkin

Laz would hit it!


24 posted on 02/21/2020 4:59:17 PM PST by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

“We never would have expected her to do anything like this.”

Thank goodness the administration cleared that up. I thought they had hired her fully expecting her to squeeze out a chair-bound murder any moment.


25 posted on 02/21/2020 5:12:38 PM PST by Chewbarkah
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Did she have ‘the virus’?


26 posted on 02/21/2020 5:12:48 PM PST by BobL (I eat at McDonald's and shop at Walmart - I just don't tell anyone.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Americans no longer qualified to be college professors?


27 posted on 02/21/2020 5:14:38 PM PST by odawg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: MrEdd

I see what you did there... (can’t stop laughing;););)


28 posted on 02/21/2020 5:16:31 PM PST by 1FreeAmerican
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 4 | View Replies]

To: NativeSon
some kink they were both into.

Bingo!

29 posted on 02/21/2020 5:17:52 PM PST by ProtectOurFreedom
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

Sounds like a case of bondage gone bad.


30 posted on 02/21/2020 5:23:11 PM PST by SamAdams76 (Trump (61); Butt (23); Commie (21); Fake Indian (8), Crazy Amy (7); Slow Joe (6); Drunken Weld (1))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: Chewbarkah

lol


31 posted on 02/21/2020 6:00:29 PM PST by Jane Austen (Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: NativeSon

>...some kink they were both into.

Safe words should not have been “rabble rouser”.


32 posted on 02/21/2020 6:34:20 PM PST by Do_Tar (To my NSA handler: I have an alibi.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: Dr. Sivana
...she might have pulled it off if she left a fan on in the room and closed the door. “Looks like another fan death.”

HA! That's true.

Them damn fans.

33 posted on 02/21/2020 6:35:24 PM PST by TangoLimaSierra (To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Extremism.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 11 | View Replies]

To: Do_Tar

Now you tell them!


34 posted on 02/21/2020 6:40:17 PM PST by NativeSon ( What Would Virginia Do? #WWVD)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 32 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway
"She was one of the sweetest ladies I've ever known," says an economics major who took five of Park's classes, worked with her on a research project, and had her as an academic adviser.

Clearly.

35 posted on 02/21/2020 6:41:51 PM PST by meadsjn
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: BipolarBob
She no love him long time.


36 posted on 02/21/2020 6:47:18 PM PST by MuttTheHoople
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: SamAdams76

Just because it’s tangentially related:

Penguin in Bondage
https://youtu.be/FWqWI5diKPA?t=120


37 posted on 02/21/2020 6:48:05 PM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 30 | View Replies]

To: nickcarraway

..and let that be a lesson to you for turning in late assignments...


38 posted on 02/21/2020 6:49:49 PM PST by Cvengr ( Adversity in life & death is inevitable; Stress is optional through faith in Christ.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: NativeSon
could be some kink they were both into

Or she was trying to protect him from contracting the Coronavirus.

39 posted on 02/21/2020 6:51:12 PM PST by Ratman0823 ("Worry less about who you might offend and care more about who you might inspire" - Mike Baxter)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: NativeSon

“Some kink they were both into...”

She tied him to the kitchen chair
She broke his throne, and she cut his hair
And from his lips she drew the hallelujah...

h/t to L. Cohen


40 posted on 02/21/2020 10:30:17 PM PST by mumblypeg
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-47 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson