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[Editorial] Epidemic politics
Rev. Jun Kwang-hoon and his Sarang Jeil Church are largely responsible for the resurgence of COVID-19. This is undeniable. They flouted social distancing instructions, obstructed contact tracing and refused testing. They deserve condemnation. But the government and the Democratic Party of Korea cannot be immune to responsibility for their failure to contain the virus. New infections are increasing rapidly and throughout the country. Now is the time for the entire nation to unite to beat the ep
Editorial Aug. 26, 2020
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Justice ministry committee recommends repealing anti-abortion law
South Korea's justice ministry said Friday it is working on revising a 67-year-old criminal law that made abortion a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. The Committee of Gender Equality under the ministry made its first policy recommendation that the ministry should recognize women's right to choose as a basic human right and move closer to repealing the decades-old law. "Women's voices and experiences should be actively considered (in policymaking
Social Affairs Aug. 21, 2020
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Justice ministry pushing to abolish anti-abortion law
The Ministry of Justice said it is working on revising a 67-year-old criminal law that made abortion a crime punishable by up to three years in prison. The Committee of Gender Equality under the ministry confirmed Friday that it is drafting a policy recommendation for the ministry to move closer to repealing the decades-old law. The belated move came more than a year after the country's Constitutional Court declared in April last year in a landmark ruling that the anti-abortion law is uncons
Social Affairs Aug. 14, 2020
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[Editorial] Suspicious big shots
The alleged investment fraud by Optimus Asset Management now being investigated by prosecutors is arousing suspicions of complicity with those in power. The private fund operator caused heavy losses to investors by failing to redeem about 500 billion won ($417 million) of deposits. This case looks like a financial crime by a con artist determined to deceive investors. Optimus advertised that it would invest funds in “safe” accounts receivable to be paid to government-affiliated
Editorial July 9, 2020
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US 'disappointed' by S. Korean court's refusal to extradite child porn site operator
WASHINGTON -- The US Justice Department said Tuesday it is disappointed by a South Korean court's denial of an extradition request for the operator of one of the world's biggest child porn sites. The department provided a statement by acting US Attorney Michael Sherwin of Washington, D.C., in response to a Yonhap query about the Seoul High Court's decision on Monday. "We are disappointed by the court's denial of extradition in this case against one of the most dangerous child sexual expl
Social Affairs July 8, 2020
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Cold case cracked? Police own up to past brutality, close probe on notorious serial killings
SUWON, Gyeonggi Province -- Police said Thursday they have wrapped up their probe into a series of slayings and rapes from over three decades ago, and issued the first formal apology over past episodes of brutality against then-suspects. Officials at a police agency in Gyeonggi Province said in a press conference that Lee Chun-jae, 57, would be sent to prosecutors for 14 killings and nine rapes that took place in Hwaseong between 1986 and 1991. While Lee pleaded guilty to a total of 34 counts
Social Affairs July 2, 2020
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Moon says campaign for 'comfort women' should go on despite recent controversy
President Moon Jae-in broke his silence Monday about a simmering controversy over the decadeslong campaign led by civic activists to raise public awareness of Japan's sexual enslavement of Korean women during World War II, saying it's not right to deny the movement's legitimacy itself. The victims are euphemistically called "comfort women." The ongoing dispute has served as a chance to look back on the way a civic group that has spearheaded the campaign at home and abroad operates,
Social Affairs June 8, 2020
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[Noah Feldman] Antifa threat imperils free speech
On Sunday, President Donald Trump tweeted that the executive branch will designate Antifa as a “terrorist organization,” apparently in an attempt to pin blame for the weekend’s violent protests on the loose collection of far-left activists. The president’s announcement was characteristically unclear. Federal law says that if the Secretary of State designates a group as a foreign terrorist organization, then materially supporting that organization becomes a very serious f
Viewpoints June 4, 2020
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Child porn site operator’s father asks court not to extradite son to US
The operator of the world’s largest child porn site said he would rather be punished in South Korea than extradited to the US, where he is likely to face heavier punishment. The father of 24-year-old Son Jong-woo, who ran the Welcome to Video site on the dark web, appealed to the court and the Justice Ministry, arguing that it would be “too harsh” to extradite Son and that he would be sentenced to at least 50 years in jail in the US. The US Department of Justice requested hi
Social Affairs May 6, 2020
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Migration broker arrested over illegal entry of Pakistanis
South Korean immigration authorities have arrested a migration broker who allegedly faked corporate invitations to smuggle dozens of Pakistanis into the country. The Seoul office of the Korea Immigration Service said Wednesday it has referred the 57-year-old agent, surnamed Choi, to the prosecution on charges of violating the immigration act and forging private documents. Choi is suspected of arranging the illegal entry of 37 Pakistani people between November 2018 and September 2019 using sto
Social Affairs May 6, 2020
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Veteran prosecutor tapped as new vice justice minister
Cheong Wa Dae announced the replacement of the vice justice minister Monday, as the ministry looks set for a strong drive to reform the prosecution service following the ruling party's overwhelming general election win. President Moon Jae-in picked Koh Ki-young, chief the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors' Office, to replace Kim O-su for the position, according to Cheong Wa Dae. Born in Gwangju, 330 kilometers south of Seoul, Koh studied law at Seoul National University and earned a master o
Politics April 27, 2020
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Survivor of Korean troops’ civilian killings in Vietnam files suit against Korean government
A Vietnamese woman filed a lawsuit against the Korean government on Tuesday over a massacre of civilians allegedly committed by South Korean troops during the Vietnam War, in the first of its kind filed some five decades after the atrocity. The plaintiff is Nguyen Thi Thanh, 60, who lost family members at the hands of Korean troops in Phong Nhi in Quang Nam province in February 1968. She seeks 30,000,100 won ($24,400) in compensation and an apology from the Korean government. According
Social Affairs April 21, 2020
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[Newsmaker] Korea to push for abolishing statute of limitations for child sex crime
The ruling Democratic Party (DP) and the government have agreed to push for abolishing the statute of limitations for sex crime involving children and minors. DP and government officials held a consultative meeting Sunday to discuss ways to strengthen the punishment of digital sex crime in response to a high-profile sex exploitation case at online chat rooms involving minors, widely known as the "Nth room case." At least 103 people, including 26 underage girls, are known to have been
Politics April 6, 2020
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[Editorial] Disclose identities
A sex crime scandal involving a group chat room on an internet messenger service has jolted the South Korean society. More than 2 million people have signed an online petition demanding the government unveil the identities of not only its operator but also its members. President Moon Jae-in said Monday that police should not limit the investigation to the “baksa room,” but investigate all members of “nth rooms.” “Baksa room” and “nth room” are
Editorial March 24, 2020
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[Kim Myong-sik] ‘Crime and punishment’ of former president
Last week, the Seoul Appellate Court handed down a sentence of 17 years’ imprisonment to Lee Myung-bak, who was president of the South Korea from Feb. 25, 2008, to Feb. 24, 2013. The judge added two more years to the 15-year term the Seoul Central District Court had given him in October 2018. There are some possibilities of a change in his future. The Supreme Court may deliver him a different final verdict – if he chooses to appeal. The Justice Ministry may suspend the execution of
Viewpoints Feb. 26, 2020
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[News Focus] Will President Moon change major foreign and economic policies during remaining 2 years?
SEJONG -- The next presidential election will take place in two years, possibly on March 9, 2022. After that, there will be a two-month period in which a president-elect leads a transition committee before President Moon Jae-in’s term expires at midnight May 9. That means Moon has about 24 months to determine what his legacy will be, political commentators say. The Moon administration came to power on the strength of massive candlelight vigils in late 2016, when former President Park Ge
Politics Feb. 23, 2020
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China revokes 3 Wall Street Journal reporters' credentials
BEIJING (AP) -- China revoked the press credentials of three reporters for The Wall Street Journal over a headline for an opinion column the government said Wednesday was racist. The expulsions come after the Trump administration on Tuesday designated five state-run Chinese news outlets that operate in the United States as "foreign missions," requiring them to register their properties and employees in the US China said it reserves the right to respond to what it called a mistaken p
World News Feb. 20, 2020
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[Kim Myong-sik] Blue House and 2018 Ulsan mayoral election conspiracy
It is a crime story with enough sinister plots that Bong Joon-ho or even Martin Scorsese might be interested in making it into a movie. After several months of investigation, the South Korean prosecution under Prosecutor-General Yoon Seok-yul indicted 13 people, including current and former senior secretaries of President Moon Jae-in, for abuse of power and violating the election law in relation to the Ulsan mayoral election in 2018. Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae involved herself in the affair
Viewpoints Feb. 12, 2020
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Opposition party threatens to impeach Moon over election scandal
The main opposition Liberty Korea Party on Monday urged President Moon Jae-in to come clean on allegations involving former and incumbent presidential secretaries in an election-meddling scandal, threatening to launch an impeachment campaign. “As soon as the 21st National Assembly is formed, we will push for a parliamentary probe and special investigation. Should President Moon be found to have been involved in any way, we will push for his impeachment,” the party’s floor l
Politics Feb. 10, 2020
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[Jonathan Bernstein] Unspoken charge that should doom Trump: lawlessness
For three days, the House managers serving as prosecutors in the Senate impeachment trial of President Donald Trump set out the details of his effort to strong-arm Ukraine into aiding his 2020 reelection, and then argued that those details constitute reason to remove him from office. They made a strong case. Using the power of the presidency to push a foreign power to smear a political opponent is an abuse of that power, a “high crime and misdemeanor” in the constitutional phrase set
Viewpoints Jan. 27, 2020
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