Gyeonggi Governor’s Wife Accused of False Online Rumor Spreading

It is interesting that the authorities are going after the wife of a political rival for allegedly spreading rumors online, but a coordinated online opinion rigging scandal for the President of Korea they quietly let go away:

The police have determined that a disputed Twitter account that spread false election rumors belongs to the wife of Gyeonggi Province Governor Lee Jae-myung.

The cyber unit at Gyeonggi Nambu Provincial Police Agency said Saturday that it will ask prosecutors early next week to indict Kim Hye-gyeong on charges of violating the Public Official Election Act.

A police official said details will not be disclosed to the media as Kim denies the charges and a legal battle is expected.

False information was posted on the Twitter account in question in April during the ruling Democratic Party’s primary race for the Gyeonggi governorship. The claim was damaging to her husband’s rival candidate.

The account also falsely claimed in late 2016 that then presidential hopeful Moon Jae-in’s son received employment favors.

The police analyzed some 40-thousand Tweets to identify the account’s owner and concluded that it belongs to the governor’s wife.  [KBS World Radio]

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Doug
Doug
6 years ago

Kim Jong Un teaching Moonhow to implement socialism. First take away freedom of speech.

AppeasingNorthKorea
AppeasingNorthKorea
6 years ago

I might add, this is the extreme leftist leader’s wife. Her husband is a fire branding loudmouth who has been often in the news, including links to the Korean mafia. It’s the same guy who ran for the leadership against Moon-pie himself and lost. The same guy who called for the withdraw of US troops from Korea. ve’ opponents. Now he’s been under attack from his rival, Moon, ever since Moon won the election. Moon is using the anti-democratic laws to suppress freedom of expressions to silence all opponents, including his own former ‘progressive’ rivals. Moon has consolidated his power base by getting rid of all the rivals to the party including another disgraced ‘progressive’ candidate named Ahn Hee Jeong who was charged with rape and who resigned from politics.
Then there’s the story of the South Korean militant trade union party… they are now also fighting with Moon for the party leadership. Unions helped Moon get into power under a promise of favors if they won the election. They are demanding Moon reverse his anti-union policies and they demand that Moon appear in front of them to face union judgment, otherwise they have threatened to charge into the Bluehouse and drag him out of there.

The “Progressive” leftists are at each other’s throats for the leadership, and they’re blowing themselves apart.

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Appeasing, this is called commie moon eliminating his competition. All the good commie leaders purged the ranks of any challenger to them once they seized power.

setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago

And some people claim there are no kangeroos in South Korea…

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

Commie Moon purging dissent and rivals very well.

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