{"id":52883,"date":"2022-09-29T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=52883"},"modified":"2022-09-28T10:31:12","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T01:31:12","slug":"parents-2-year-old-jump-death-after-being-hounded-debt-collectors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/parents-2-year-old-jump-death-after-being-hounded-debt-collectors\/","title":{"rendered":"Parents of 2-year-old jump to their death after being hounded by debt collectors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A married couple in their 30s facing financial difficulties recently ended their lives by jumping off a building in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, Daily NK has learned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">A source in the province told Daily NK on Monday that the couple had jumped to their deaths from their apartment building in mid-September.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cPressure from debt collectors drove them to end their lives,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The couple, who had been married for four years, reportedly had a two-year-old child.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">According to the source, the woman had made a living by selling products at the marketplace. But after she gave birth to a child in December 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic drove the family into severe economic hardship.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">That led the woman to get involved in drug dealing, selling small portions of methamphetamine. She would pick up the drug on credit and then repay her supplier from her proceeds.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last September, the family\u2019s house was raided by agents from the unified command on non-socialist and anti-socialist behavior, who found and confiscated 10 grams of meth and KPW 1 million won in cash.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">After a month\u2019s investigation, the woman was sentenced to six months of hard labor. The raid also left her in KPW 7 million of debt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As soon as the woman finished her labor sentence in March, she started getting visits from debt collectors sent by the financier who had fronted her the drugs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Male debt collectors would yell at her in the daytime, demanding she pay back her debt and making her child bawl with terror. There was no peace in the evenings, either, since her husband would quarrel with her after he got home from work.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the same time, the family was slandered by neighbors who said the child must be the source of all the misfortune they had suffered since its birth.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hounded by debt collectors and slandered by gossipy neighbors, the couple planned to sell their apartment so they could clear the debt and move to a new neighborhood. But time passed without the apartment selling, and after missing several deadlines for repaying the debt, the couple finally agreed to hand the property deed over to the creditor if they could not repay the money by the end of August.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cConsidering how tough things are right now, there are plenty of houses for sale, but precious few willing to buy. Since the apartment still hadn\u2019t sold by the end of August, the couple ultimately jumped to their deaths,\u201d the source said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cFinancial difficulties caused a young couple to take their own lives, orphaning their own child. With nobody to take care of their two-year-old, he was sent to an orphanage in Hamhung,\u201d the source added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/20220926-2\/\"><i>Read in Korean<\/i><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A married couple in their 30s facing financial difficulties recently ended their lives by jumping off a building in Hamhung, South Hamgyong Province, Daily NK has learned. 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