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

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A woman in South Korea who killed her adult daughter after believing their family would never be able to pay off debts has been sentenced to 15 years in jail by the appellate court – up from an original 12 years behind bars.The Korea Herald on Wednesday reported that Gwangju High Court upheld the woman’s conviction while imposing a heavier sentence on the accused, 60, who murdered her daughter, 33, on February 12, 2023.The accused reportedly drugged her daughter and strangled her to death out...