Prosecutors Question Seoul Mayor for Spreading Misinformation During a Debate
Could you imagine how many politicians in the U.S. would be prosecuted if America had law about spreading misinformation during a debate:
Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon returned home early Sunday after 14 hours of questioning by prosecutors over allegations that he spoke falsehood during a TV debate in the run-up to April’s mayoral by-election.
Oh was accused of spreading false information after he said during the pre-election debate that a scandal-plagued development project in 2009 had nothing to do with his previous term as Seoul mayor from 2006 to 2011.
Police looked into the allegations and referred the case to the prosecution.
Oh has claimed he forgot about the case because the project ultimately fell through.
He appeared at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office for questioning around 10 a.m. Saturday and left the prosecutors’ office around 20 minutes past midnight.
Oh, affiliated with the main opposition People Power Party, won a landslide victory against the ruling Democratic Party’s candidate in the April 7 mayoral by-election.
Yonhap
This is another example of how the Moon administration is using legal methods to go after the opposition’s main political leaders.
Lawfare for fun and profit, I guess…
Koreans need to pay attention to who is prosecuted and who is not.
Note that I am not taking sides in this squabble. After all, it’s their country; and one assumes they don’t want to end up like North Korea, Venezuela, or Zimbabwe.
Actually Pyongyang Moon does want South Korea to end up an autocratic dictatorship, under his authority of course. He can then round up enemies toss them in jails until they get too full, then he’ll set up “camps” (gulags) as time goes on. The only hope the South Koreans would have is that his security chief grows a spine and pulls the trigger.
I sure can imagine it would be like if the US’s politicians were punished for spreading misinformation. That jerk Trump would be at a complete loss–again!