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Panel to review prosecution, Justice Ministry handling of staff sexual misconduct
A Ministry of Justice panel said Monday it will review how the ministry and the prosecution have dealt with sexual misconduct by their staff. The committee for measures against sexual harassment and sexual crimes was launched after a prosecutor revealed on television in January that she had been molested by a former senior ministry official.The panel will look into 130 cases of sexual misconduct over the past five years -- 50 within the prosecution and 80 within the ministry and its affiliated o
Social Affairs May 7, 2018
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Court recognizes refugee status of Iranian who converted to Christianity
A South Korean court has ruled that an Iranian who converted from Islam to Christianity should be given refugee status as he could be persecuted if he goes back to his country.The Seoul Administrative Court said on Sunday the Iranian has won a lawsuit he filed against the chief of the Seoul Immigration Office demanding the authority withdraw its decision not to recognize his refugee status. The man began to attend a Protestant church upon entering South Korea in August 2011 and was baptized to c
Social Affairs May 6, 2018
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Justice Ministry to reinvestigate sex crime charge against former vice justice minister
Former Vice Justice Minister Kim Hak-ui is likely to be reinvestigated on sex crime charges, of which he had been cleared in 2013, as the Justice Ministry views the previous decision as an apparent misjudgment. A special independent panel at the Ministry of Justice looking into past rulings recommended Tuesday a probe into Kim’s case in which he was accused of multiple charges, including rape, bribery and narcotics use. The committee, which was established by the Moon Jae-in administration in De
Social Affairs April 24, 2018
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[Newsmaker] Arrest warrant of ex-prosecutor in high-profile 'Me Too' case dismissed
A Seoul court on Wednesday denied an arrest warrant for a former senior prosecutor accused of unfairly disadvantaging his junior colleague for raising sexual misconduct allegations against him. The Seoul Central District Court dismissed the prosecution's request to arrest Ahn Tae-geun, a former prosecuting attorney, who is accused of abusing his power to punish a junior prosecutor for having raised sexual allegations against him in the past."There are areas of contention of whether a crime has b
Social Affairs April 18, 2018
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Sex offender fled abroad while wearing ankle monitor
A convicted sex offender under investigation for another alleged sex crime fled abroad while wearing an electronic monitoring device, and was repatriated, police said on Tuesday. The Seoul Nowon Police Station said it arrested the man surnamed Shin at the Incheon International Airport last Thursday after he was sent back from Ho Chi Minh City with the cooperation of Vietnamese police. It is the first time a criminal under surveillance left the country while wearing an electronic tag. A man convi
Social Affairs April 10, 2018
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[Cass R. Sunstein] How to think about threat to America
For the first time since the 1940s, Americans have been asking: Can it happen here? The question, which has been debated in the US for months, is meant to draw attention to the potential fragility of democratic self-government -- and to emphasize that in some periods, democracies are especially likely to turn in authoritarian directions. It would be fair to pose that question in any case in light of China’s continued rise, Russia’s resurgent aggression and the disturbing developments in Turkey,
Viewpoints April 4, 2018
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[Editorial] Same juggernaut
The prosecution has been a target of persistent public criticism, which centered on its possession of excessive power, abuse of the power -- sometimes for the benefit of the government in power -- and sporadic cases of corruption and other misdeeds committed by prosecutors.Political and public calls for addressing those problems have grown whenever a new administration came, and that was no exception with the government of President Moon Jae-in. Moon, who took power in the wake of a massive corr
Editorial March 15, 2018
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Prosecution willing to hand more cases to police, but rules out power-sharing
The prosecution is willing to hand more corruption or major crime cases to police but will continue to take control of overall investigation procedures, prosecution and parliament sources said Tuesday.Prosecutor-General Moon Moo-il outlined the prosecution's proposal on reforms of the prosecution and judiciary to the National Assembly's special committee.The proposal by the head of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office is a response to the Moon Jae-in government's key policy pledge to reform state inv
Politics March 13, 2018
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[Editorial] Keep #MeToo alive
The #MeToo movement in Korea, which started on Jan. 29 with female prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun’s revelations of a senior prosecutors’ sexual misconduct, has been spreading like wildfire.It has affected art and culture, academic and religious sectors, and most recently political circles. This demonstrates the widespread prevalence of sexual assault and harassment, especially in the workplace. In the movement so far, nothing has been more disturbing than the rape accusations against South Chungcheong G
Editorial March 8, 2018
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[Erwin Chemerinsky] Three gun control myths that are killing American kids
The murder of 17 students and teachers in Parkland, Florida, should cause all of us to ask, how many people must die before this country finally adopts meaningful gun control laws. This, of course, is just the latest of so many instances of gun violence. They all share one feature in common: a disturbed man with a military-style semiautomatic weapon killing a large number of people in minutes. Action to decrease gun violence is long overdue. Each year, more than 30,000 people in the United State
Viewpoints Feb. 26, 2018
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Progressive Catholic group apologizes over alleged rape attempt by ex-member
A group of progressive South Korean Catholic priests has issued an apology after a former member was accused of attempted rape seven years ago in South Sudan.A priest at the Catholic Diocese of Suwon, who is only identified by his surname Han, is accused of attempting to rape a female volunteer worker multiple times during his stay in South Sudan in 2011. The alleged victim, Kim Min-kyung, a Catholic who was then in South Sudan with Han for missionary work, publicly shared her experience through
Social Affairs Feb. 26, 2018
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[J. Bradford DeLong] Donald Trump is playing to lose
America certainly has a different kind of president than what it is used to. What distinguishes Donald Trump from his predecessors is not just his temperament and generalized ignorance, but also his approach to policymaking.First, consider Bill Clinton, who in 1992 was, like Trump, elected without a majority of voters. Once in office, Clinton appealed to the left with fiscal-stimulus and health-care bills (both unsuccessful), but also tacked center with a pro-growth deficit-reduction bill. He ap
Viewpoints Feb. 8, 2018
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[Andrew Sheng] What can we do about inequality?
In the last column, I asked why we were blind to inequality. The more important question is: What can we do about it? Fifty years ago, Martin Luther King argued that “we must rapidly begin ... the shift from a thing-oriented society to a person-oriented society.” Otherwise, “the giant triplets of racism, extreme materialism and militarism are incapable of being conquered.” All triplets are now manifested in the Trumpist debate in America. Inequality has risen because of four fundamental forces -
Viewpoints Feb. 7, 2018
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[Shannon O’Neil] Mexico’s voters have bigger problems than Trump
To hear some US politicians tell it, President Donald Trump’s threats to withdraw from NAFTA, build a wall and kick out the Dreamers may cast a decisive shadow over Mexico’s upcoming presidential election. Yet if Mexicans do vote for change, it will more likely be because they are fed up by homegrown woes, beginning with the blatant impunity that has fueled criminal violence and rampant corruption. While Mexico’s surging homicide rate understandably draws top media billing, widespread corporate
Viewpoints Feb. 5, 2018
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[Patrick Sharkey] Community investment, not punishment, key to reducing violence
For more than four decades, the US’ national approach to addressing crime and violence has focused on punishment. Police forces have grown larger and more militant, prosecutors have become more aggressive, and criminal justice policies have gotten increasingly harsh. As a result, the United States has unprecedented rates of incarceration. There are almost 7 million Americans under the supervision of the criminal justice system — in jails, in prisons, on probation or on parole. In part because vi
Viewpoints Jan. 31, 2018
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[David Ignatius] Russia investigation is far from a ‘witch hunt’
“Does this concern you at all?” asks a tart email message from a Trump supporter who wonders why the mainstream media doesn’t take a closer look at allegations that the Justice Department’s investigation of Russian meddling in the 2016 election has been tainted by bias. It’s a fair question. President Trump has made very serious charges, tweeting in December that the FBI’s “reputation is in Tatters -- worst in History!” And Republicans in Congress have claimed that the bureau was manipulated by
Viewpoints Jan. 18, 2018
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[Mac Margolis] Latin America’s #MeToo moment
The revolt against sexual predation in the workplace is in full cry in the United States. But what about in Latin America, where machismo was branded and the border between seduction and assault has been elastic and riddled with legal indulgences?The outrage may be more selective and change agonizingly slow, but even in the most patriarchal societies of the Americas, the pushback is gathering force. From Mexico City to Buenos Aires, a new generation is speaking up, driving policy changes and cal
Viewpoints Jan. 3, 2018
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[Elizabeth Drew] A Trump New Year
As US President Donald Trump decamped to his mansion-cum-private club in Palm Beach, Florida, for the holidays, he left Washington, DC, on edge. It’s obvious that Trump and his strong allies in Congress are determined to torpedo what’s supposed to be an independent legal inquiry into whether Trump and his campaign colluded with Russia in its efforts to defeat Hillary Clinton in 2016.The Trump camp’s behavior toward Special Counsel Robert Mueller and the FBI makes Richard Nixon and his aides’ beh
Viewpoints Jan. 2, 2018
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[PyeongChang 2018] Police, Justice Ministry to work together on foreign visitor crime at Winter Olympics
The National Police Agency and the Justice Ministry said Wednesday they will come up with a set of joint measures to respond to crimes committed by foreign visitors at and around the 2018 PyeongChang Winter Olympics in February.Under the envisioned measures, the two institutions are to share information on foreign terrorists and criminals and prevent them from entering the country in order to eliminate any threat posed by such elements before it arises.The first ever Winter Olympics in South Kor
Social Affairs Dec. 27, 2017
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[Jago Russell and Christophe Deloire] Has Interpol become a tool of oppression?
Arrests of journalists in Spain and Ukraine on the basis of Interpol notices have raised serious questions about the methods of the international police agency. For media professionals in particular, the trends are deeply worrying.The cases in Spain and Ukraine are not isolated incidents. Countries opposed to a free press are increasingly using Interpol’s “wanted person” alerts to target and silence journalists who have fled. Since July, Fair Trials and Reporters Without Borders have responded t
Viewpoints Dec. 26, 2017
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