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Professor Lee Soo-jung said, “I will keep talking even if I feel uncomfortable with someone.” Photo by Jo Young-cheol“It is an opportunity for all people to learn about gender sensitivity.”
Minister for Gender Equality and Family (Ministry of Leisure and Family) Lee Jung-ok responded to a controversy over the cost of 83.8 billion won for next year’s by-elections, which was held on suspicion of sexual harassment by former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and former Busan Mayor Oh Geo-don on November 5 in a general policy inquiry of the National Assembly Budget and Liquidation Committee. I do not suffer from hemorrhoids. Minister Lee said: “It is not helpful to victims if the issue of sexual violence is controversial, and if it is linked to an election, there is a high probability of excessive political conflict.” The legislators’ consultations were avoided saying it was “the case under investigation.”
The opposition party argues the demand for the resignation and dissolution of the Ministry of Leisure and Affairs, asking “For whom does the Minister of Leisure and Interior exist?” Deputy Speaker Hwang Gyu-hwan, the people’s power, noted: “He is like an umpteenth perpetrator, not the leisure minister.” Chief Justice Party spokesman Jeong Ho-jin criticized that “it is not the ruling party that the Minister of Leisure and Home Affairs should be aware of, but women victims of sexual violence and South Korean women still exposed to it. risk of sexual violence “. Oh, the victim of the mayor’s sexual assault case said in a statement the day: “Am I a learning textbook?” Lee Soo-jeong, a professor of crime psychology at Gyeonggi University, who has been fighting for the protection of victims at crime scenes for more than 20 years, asked about this issue. Professor Lee said: “There was not enough consideration for the victims of (sex crimes).” After personal and telephone interviews, Professor Lee’s responses were summarized. Professor Lee joined the Special Committee on Countermeasures against Sexual Violence of the Future Integration Party (the current people’s power) in July and vowed to speak out to resolve women’s rights and sexual crimes.
“A country that cannot say that it has suffered damage”
-The controversy does not stop with the declarations of the Minister of Leisure.
“The Minister of Recreation and Affairs seems to have recognized it as an important event that will lead to a change of course in South Korean society, which is not susceptible to women’s rights, but the consideration for the victims was insufficient. This can be seen in the fact that the victim was angry. That’s how difficult it is to see the case of victimhood ”.
-A spokesman for the opposition party used the expression ‘No car abuse’. How do the victims feel about this situation now?
“I was a victim, but even the former Busan mayor’s victims have been shown to be, and the trial is ongoing.
The Ogeodon Sexual Violence Incident Joint Countermeasures Committee, organized around 290 women’s rights groups across the country, centered on the Busan Sexual Violence Counseling Center, responded to Lee’s comments via a press release: “According to your logic, Ogeodon and the late Park Won-soon, who were designated as perpetrators of sexual violence. “Is the mayor saying that he was a teacher who taught the whole town about gender sensitivity?” And asked for Lee’s resignation. “The victim is not a tool to learn gender sensitivity to people,” he said. “I do not know if the head of the women’s department, who has to take the initiative in the protection of victims, was looking at the incident of sexual violence of the head of the agency from this point of view.”
-Was the suspicion of sexual harassment by the two former mayors an opportunity to participate in the special committee?
“The beginning was the news that Cho Doo-soon, who was sentenced to 12 years in prison for committing a sex crime against an 8-year-old boy, was released in December. When he was released, the victim had to move out immediately, and as of this year, I was wondering why the victim should move. Then there were a series of incidents of sexual violence that involved local government chiefs, and I decided to speak in person, thinking that it would no longer be possible.
– Was there a decisive moment?
“It is the term ‘affected person’. When the term appeared, one media asked: ‘Is the victim or the complaining victim right?’ At the time, ‘I had never heard of anything other than the victim. This is the first time the complaining victim has heard of her. Don’t tell me they hurt you, but don’t admit it and don’t even hear that it’s uncomfortable. Looking at murder records and photographs of the victim’s body for 20 years, I wondered every day what the man wanted to say at the last minute, and someone wanted to know the truth. It’s natural for me to take the side of the victim. If I cowardly commit myself to reality, I shouldn’t regret the many women who have died. ”
-I have heard that you suffered malicious comments when joining the Conservative party.
“What I want to do is different from the legislative current that the Dong-A-Democrat (Democratic Party) has been doing. I am in the position that a conservative criminal law is needed. From a criminal’s point of view, it heavily infringes on human rights (also known as ‘Cho Doo-soon Quarantine Law’), but believes that it is the only way to protect victims. Basically, I am in the position that the defendant is a criminal. I do not believe that the human rights of criminals are an absolute value to protect the human rights of children, the weakest ”.
“The human rights of criminals are not considered absolute values”
Professor Lee Soo-jung said, “I don’t think human nature can be easily changed.”There are two bills initiated by the Special Committee on Countermeasures against Sexual Violence with the participation of Prof. Lee. Bill 1 is the ‘Law of Strengthening Penalties for Stalking’, and its main content is to clarify the actions included in stalking crimes, prevent secondary damages and prepare regulations for the protection measures for victims. Bill No. 2 is the so-called ‘Cho Doo-soon Containment Act’ (Protection and Prisons Act). The bill allowed the courts to seek custody in cases of sexual assault and injury to persons under 13 years of age or more than two murders, three or more crimes of sexual violence.
-The Special Committee on Countermeasures against Sexual Violence has proposed two bills: the ‘Law to Strengthen the Penalty for Stalking’ and the ‘Cho Doo-soon Quarantine Law’. What procedures remain until legalization?
“First, we will discuss in the Legislative Judicial Commission of the National Assembly and once an agreement is reached, we have to formally decide if the law is approved in the plenary session of the National Assembly. There are also discussions about human rights violations …. I don’t know why defending the human rights of the victims should be a showdown between progressives and conservatives. So now I’m doing my best not to solve the problem while answering various interviews and appearing on TV shows. ”
-What is the level of the legal system related to sexual crimes in Korea?
“It is a country that does not respect the opinions of women and has the requirement to constitute a crime of rape, or a country that requires intimidation or violence to constitute rape. A country that does not want to be called a ‘victim’, and even when using a strange vocabulary of ‘whistleblower victim’, even now, Ahn Hee-jeong, a former governor of South Chungcheong Province, has been convicted of sexual violence. It is a country where comments run. I am not saying that I will be on the side of progress or the conservative. There is a past that deserves criticism both for progress and for conservatism as an outdated value system. Even with this passage of time, nothing has improved when it comes to women’s rights. ”
-They are also in a strong position in the law to strengthen the punishment for stalking.
“Women are killed by the majority of those who lived or coexisted. The article repeats that he denounced a criminal stalker, but the police released him and returned a few hours later to kill him. In Korea, society itself views women as property. What rights of women can be said in a country like this? In my opinion, women are also in fantasy. Korean society has long been in a male achievement-oriented order of values. As a result, many women have been trained to survive on their command and often make a sound that has nothing to do with a woman’s identity. ”
-Is the power of the people who join the partial re-election preparatory committee also a way of speaking?
“As a member of the Competition Preparation Committee, my role would be recommended, but I would like to play a role to allow the proportion of women and gender equality to influence the nomination. I also hope that my existence will carry and influence the Democratic Party more. Efforts such as electing a person without defects in women’s rights or selecting a candidate. If you are aware of me and women and choose a candidate, I think that alone makes sense. “
“It should not be the country where the victim moves”
-To what extent should the human rights of criminals be protected?
“I have the right to be tried in due process. It is inevitable to be free after fulfilling criminal responsibilities, but you must not repeat it. But where is the reality? Most of them are a continuation of Jaebum. From the point of view of a criminal psychologist, I believe that if the period of acceptance is longer than that of living in the open air, we should judge that rehabilitation is impossible. The rights of people who constantly pose threats should not be considered important. At that time, there is a difference in my opinion as a psychologist and people who value human rights. People who value human rights have no guarantee that they will kill someone again, so they have to protect the human rights of the person in question first, and I am in a position where it is useless after the death of the victim ”.
Reporter Lee Han-kyung [email protected] Photo Reporter Cho Young-cheol
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