The so-called 'chain girl incident' that occurred in Jiangsu Province, China, is causing a big wave in Chinese society.



It is presumed that the authorities controlled the spread of information during the Beijing Winter Olympics, but voices of anger over the incident, which uncovered dark aspects of Chinese society, such as violations of women's human rights, human trafficking, and information hiding, all at once, spread like wildfire of agents. Authorities disclosed the facts of the case, including human trafficking, on the 23rd.



The incident became known to the world on the 26th of last month, when a Chinese blogger posted on social media a video of a 45-year-old woman, Yang Mo (45), with her neck tied in chains at a shack in Feng County, Xuzhou City, Jiangsu Province.



The anger spread even further when the same blogger shared a video of her husband, Ms. Yang, proudly saying that she and her husband have eight children.



The cases were named 'the case of a mother of eight children' and 'the case of a chain girl'.



In China, which has emerged as the world's second-largest economy, there was an embarrassment that a woman living a life like a slave like this existed, as well as complaints about what the public authorities did while women were subjected to inhumane treatment.



In particular, there is a growing view that the problem of the fact that the authorities did not properly crack down on the situation in which some unmarried men in rural China violate women's human rights through human trafficking has been properly raised this time.



Crucially, the information released four times from the 28th to the 10th of last month in order to appease the public by the local authorities came and went, which raised distrust.



For example, from the 28th of last month to the 7th of this month, local local government authorities said that there was no human trafficking or kidnapping of Mr.



Not only the voices of anger were raised, but also the theory of introspection.



During the Beijing Olympics, there were voices saying that they had forgotten the existence of women whose human rights were being violated while enthusiastic about Gu Ai-Ling (American name Eileen Koo), who emerged as a Chinese hero after winning two gold medals in women's freestyle skiing during the Beijing Olympics.



"If the difference between us and Guiling is to die 400 times and be reincarnated, there is only one distance between us and the chain girl." Articles such as the one dominated the online.



In addition, according to the Singapore Media Association Jobo, 100 Peking University students published an open letter demanding a thorough investigation by the central government under their joint name.



In addition, on the 19th, Dongyan Lao, a professor of law at Tsinghua University, appealed for interest in the case through a Chinese social media Weibo account.



In addition, several media reporters went to the scene to cover, but there were also reports that local authorities blocked the coverage, citing quarantine issues as reasons.



On the 10th, local public security authorities, who finally started investigating, arrested Yang's husband, Dong Mo (55), on charges of illegal detention, and Ssang Mo (48), who kidnapped and sold Yang, on charges of human trafficking. turned out to be true.



Then, the Jiangsu Provincial Party Committee and the provincial government announced the results of the investigation on the 23rd and said that Yang had been trafficked three times in 1998 and ended up living with her husband, Dong.



It was investigated that during the first human trafficking committed by Ssang, Yang was sold for 5,000 yuan (about 940,000 won).



According to Yang's husband, Dong, who gave birth to eight children between 1999 and 2020, the eldest son gave birth to a midwife with the help of a midwife, and the second and third at a public health center. He said he cut it himself.



Yang also suffered harsh acts, such as being tied around the neck with chains, by her husband, Dong, when she developed symptoms of schizophrenia in 2017, the investigative authorities said.



It was also determined that Yang's real name at the time of birth was Xiaohuamei.



Along with the announcement of the results of the investigation, the Jiangsu Provincial authorities announced that 17 people, including the secretary of the Feng County Party Committee, had been dismissed from their jobs and their positions were downgraded on the grounds of negligence and disinformation.



The announcement of the investigation results in Jiangsu Province was introduced on the main news of China Central Television (CCTV) at 7 pm (local time) in Shinwon Lianbo, and several related search terms were listed on the main search terms list on portal sites.



It seems difficult to avoid the criticism that the Chinese authorities and state-run media only announced the truth after the Olympics were over, while controlling the spread of criticism against the authorities by shuddering about this incident during the Beijing Olympics (4-20 days).



On the 22nd, Chinese media 'Chinese Women's News' published an article titled 'Suggesting an explicit investigation into the abduction of women across the country' and appealed for a pan-government response.



(Photo=Capture of Hwang Hwang Peng, Yonhap News)