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Check-in 2021.03.22 10:41
Last year at Burning Sun
This year, Motherland, Mihyang Yoon, Honggeol Kim, Wonsoon Park, Geodon Oh
On the 22nd it appeared that the ‘2020 National Human Rights Report’ published by the United States Department of State specifically specified cases of corruption and sexual harassment of Korean public officials. In the ‘corruption’ category, former Justice Minister Cho Kuk entered for the second year in a row and included Democratic Party lawmaker Yoon Mi-hyang and independent lawmaker Kim Hong-geol, who left the Democratic Party. In the ‘sexual harassment’ section, the allegations by former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon and former Busan Mayor Oh Geo-don were listed in detail.
According to the VOA, the State Department Human Rights Report declared former Minister Cho’s charges for the second year in a row in the “corruption” section of “government corruption and lack of transparency” in the Korean version. Specifically, “As of October 2020, an investigation into former Minister Cho and his wife, Kyung-Shim Chung, and other relatives of Cho is ongoing. In December 2019, the prosecution bribed former Minister Cho and abused his ex officio authority. In June 2020, the Seoul District Court charged Cho’s nephew (Beom-dong Cho) with concealing and destroying corporate documents unfavorable to the family of former Minister Cho in June 2020. He was sentenced to four years in prison. ” .
In the ‘corruption’ section, regarding Rep. Yoon Mi-hyang, “The prosecution charged Rep. Yoon with fraud, embezzlement, and job abandonment in September 2020.”
Regarding the third son of former president Kim Dae-jung, Kim Hong-geol, third son of former president, wrote that “the party (Democratic Party) expelled on September 18,” he said.
According to the report, “Former Seoul Mayor Park Won soon took his own life on July 9, 2020, the day after the police report on the sexual harassment of the former secretary (victim).” According to the complaint, Mayor Park agreed. with the secretary from 2017. Without repeated physical contact and without sending inappropriate messages and photos, such sexual harassment continued even after the secretary moved to work.
Furthermore, citing the victim’s testimony after Mayor Park made an extreme decision, he specifically listed the allegations of sexual harassment, saying: “Mayor Park sent a photo of his underwear to his secretary and asked him to call her at the room connected to the office. “.
The report said: “The case ended with Mayor Park’s death in accordance with the law, but women’s rights activists and plaintiff’s lawyers continue to demand a full investigation.” “Former Mayor Park was famous as an advocate for women’s rights and was highly regarded for successfully representing a victim of an incident of sexual harassment in 1993.”
The State Department assessed that in the Korean side of the ‘National Human Rights Report 2019’, “public officials sometimes practiced corruption without punishment, and there were numerous reports of corruption in the government.” Meanwhile, as a representative example of corruption, ▲ the case of former Minister Cho Kook and ▲ the collusion between Burning Sun and the police.
The State Department said: “On October 14 last year, former Minister Cho raised suspicions that he and his family were using their position unfairly and, in some cases, attempted to obtain inappropriate academic gains and investment returns for their daughter. I resigned. “Furthermore,” on October 24 an arrest warrant was issued against the wife of former Minister Cho that destroyed evidence related to her daughter’s medical school application and the falsification of qualification documents, “he said. “As of November, the prosecution continues the investigation of former Minister Cho. They also prohibited leaving the country,” he said.
In the media sector, a Democratic Party spokesman said he apologized after criticizing a Bloomberg news reporter who described President Moon Jae-in as “North Korea’s chief spokesman.”
