Tweet of the Day: “You Will Get Hurt”
Wife of #ChoKuk, #MoonJaeIn's Justice Min. nominee, called Dongyang Univ Pres. (her boss), asked him not to release to prosecution files re: her alleged forging of her daughter's award, said at very end, "If you mistakenly release them, you will get hurt." https://t.co/14Rhr8HzNh
— Sung-Yoon Lee (@SungYoonLee1) September 8, 2019
Ask any Korean prosecutor … extortion is the most common crime on the peninsula.
Imagine threatening a member of the American press this way. The reaction would be explosive. I’m curious how the rest of the Korean press, not to mention the Korean public, will react to this haughty display of privilege. I expect no one will care that much because it’s lefties all the way down.
But aren’t threats of violence illegal, even in Korea? I’m pretty sure that if a foreigner loudly told any Korean, whatever his status, that “you’ll get hurt,” there’d be immediate legal consequences.
By the way: thank you, ROK Drop, for covering the whole Cho Kuk thing. I wouldn’t have known about this had it not been for your posts, despite it happening right under my nose.
Sounds more like a Mafioso than University professor.
@Kevin Kim, thanks. Cho Kuk was going to be appointed no matter what by Moon and the conservatives took their best shot at tarnishing him before he enters into office. Unfortunately the corruption surrounding him and his family has distracted from what Cho Kuk’s past socialist views are.