Category: Lawfare

August 15, 2019

Kim Kwan-jin, former National Security Adviser, Found Innocent

2019-8-14, Yonhap News Kim Kwan-jin (김관진), former National Security Adviser, is found not guilty on August 14, 2019. [Truncated] Source: https://m.news.nate.com/view/20190814n18270

Categories Lawfare/People/Leadership/Translation of Korean News

July 11, 2019

Public Statement on the “Byun Hee-Jai and Tablet Trial” by Citizen Watchdog Group

2018-9-9, Byun Hee-jai and Tablet Trial Citizen Watchdog Group The group calls for scientifically inspecting the controversial “tablet PC.” Although the statement came out on September 9, 2018, Byun Hee-Jai’s...

Categories Censorship/Disinformation/Impeachment/Lawfare/Opinion Rigging/Statements from Korean groups/Tablet

July 5, 2019

South Korea’s Ruling Party to Sign Agreement with Chinese Communist Party (CCP), and with prominent U.S. Think Tank CSIS

2019-7-5, Tara O The Institute for Democracy (the Minjoo Yeongoowon, 민주연구원, http://idp.or.kr/) is a partisan think tank under the ruling Democratic Party of Korea (or Deobureo Minjoo Dang in Korean,...

Categories Censorship/China/Constitution/Japan/Lawfare/Liberal Democracy/Lobbying/Subversion

July 1, 2019

The Declaration of the Citizens Who Are Working to Protect the Country, The Republic of Korea Proclaims an Emergency

2019-6-29, South Korean Citizens Who Are Working to Protect the Country The Declaration of the South Korean Citizens:  The Republic of Korea Proclaims and Emergency OneDear 50 million Korean people,...

Categories China/Defense/Druking/Economy/Japan/Lawfare/Media/Opinion Rigging/Security/Statements from Korean groups

June 15, 2019

“Friends, Please Let this Horrendous Situation of Cha Myong-jin be Widely Known”

June 3, 2019, Cha Myong-jin (translation of a post on his Facebook account) FB Friends, everybody, I’m starting to post on Facebook again. Having lost my home when I was...

Categories Censorship/Lawfare/Translation of Korean News

June 6, 2019

Former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae Speaks Out with a Court Statement (Full Text)

2019-5-31, statement by former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Seung-tae (양승태), via PennMike Of course I want to tell you how miserable I feel as I stand in court, but...

Categories Lawfare/Rule of Law/Statements from Korean groups/Translation of Korean News

May 22, 2019

Seoul City Councilwoman Yeo Myeong Sued for Libel by Minjok NGO

2019-5-22, Tara O Minjok Moonje Yeongooso (민족문제연구소) or MinMoonYeon (민문연) for short (rough translation:  minjok issues institute) filed a lawsuit against Seoul City Councilwoman Yeo Myeong (여명), Liberty Korea Party,...

Categories Censorship/Lawfare/People/Leadership

May 20, 2019

Direct Suppression of YouTubers Beginning in South Korea?

2017-5-19, Tara O Youtuber Kim Sang-jin (김상진) was arrested on May 11, 2019.  He is the secretary general of the Freedom Coalition, which produces YouTube videos on the Sangjin Aje...

Categories Abuse of Authority/Censorship/Lawfare

May 14, 2019

South Korean Supreme Court Removed and eventually Took Disciplinary Action against Judge Sung Chang-ho, who ‘confined Kim Kyoung-soo,’ Moon Jae-in’s Close Associate

2019-5-9, Chosun Ilbo Judge Sung Chang-ho (성창호) was in charge of the first trial of Kim Kyoung-su (김경수), the governor of South Gyeongsang Province [who also worked on then-candidate Moon...

Categories Law/Lawfare/Opinion Rigging/Translation of Korean News

April 25, 2019

South Korea’s Ruling Party, Smaller Opposition parties Agree to Fast Track Bills to Create Additional Independent Investigative Body Akin to North Korea’s Secret Police, Increase Unelected Officials, Silence Discussions on the 5.18 Gwangju Incident

2019-4-25, Tara O On April 8, 2019, the ruling Deobureo Minjoo Party (Democratic Party) threatened that if the election system reform agreement is not reached by April 10, 2019, then...

Categories 5.18/Censorship/Constitution/Law/Lawfare