perpetrator-parent. To speak in the language of a child, this is a murder. Even in the language of the law, this is plain murder. Although there are views that severe punishment should be imposed even in the case crimes committed by mentally ill. I cannot agree with the perception that the reason for lenient punishment is that the crime was committed by a parent.” It is a critical view on the inappropriate use of the term “joint suicide” and paternalism in relation to suicide after the murder of a child. It is a unique phenomenon in East Asia to use the terms ‘family joint suicide’ or ‘family mass suicide’ for cases of parents committing suicide after killing their minor children (especially infants and toddlers). In Western literature, the case where a child dies together with a parent's suicide is classified from the perspective of a child murder, while Korea’s use of the term ‘family joint suicide,’ and Japan’s use of the term ‘parent-child mind’ (親子心中, oyako shinju). It is seen as unfortunate, and it has formed an attitude of seeing it as an inevitable decision of the family community.290) ‘Paternalism’ also seems to be one of the Korean society’s perception on filicide-suicide. A media company analyzed readers' reactions to its article about suicide after killing a child through a special report in 2019.291) According to the media, about 32% of the comments were responses that sympathized with the perpetrators to the effect of ‘the child will live a miserable life, but it is irresponsible to leave it alone’ and ‘I understand the feelings of parents who cannot die alone.’ Some expressed complex feelings of blaming the parents but also understanding the unavoidable situation.292) C) Respecting the Child’s Right to Life and the Role of the Society The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, ratified by Korea in 1991, stipulates that every child has an inherent right to life, and that the concerned governments must ensure the 290) Lee, Hyeon-jeong, Concept of Family in East Asia through ‘Parent-Child Joint Suicide’: Comparative Cultural Studies on Korean, Chinese and Japanese Societies, March 2012. 291) Kookmin Ilbo, [Issue & Exploration] Excessive paternalism reduces the ability for social resolution, Oct. 17, 2019. 292) However, this perception seems to be changing recently. As a result of the NHRCK’s analysis of related search terms after the disappearance of Yoo-na Cho in Jun. 2022, the results showed that poverty, difficult, death, murder, murder, suffering, extreme choice, violence, intimidation, pessimism, and punishment appeared in related searches. Also, family, parent, father, child, child killing, choice, tears, and the last were ranked at the top. 123