Joong Ang Ilbo Journalist Describes How Blue House Try to Silence Him with Lawsuits
The scandal involving President Moon Jae-in’s wife’s wardrobe has finally come to light, but the journalist that first began to document improprieties of the first lady was riddled with lawsuits from the Blue House for doing so:
It all began with a column published on June 11, 2019, in local newspaper the Joongang Ilbo, which pitted veteran journalist Nam Jeong-ho against the presidential office in a legal battle that lasted for two years.
Korea Times via a reader tip
In his column titled “First Lady Kim Jung-sook’s Bucket List?” he cautiously but unequivocally alleges that the first lady had made the most of the official overseas trips taken with her husband, President Moon Jae-in, as opportunities to explore some of the world’s renowned cultural heritage sites and museums on taxpayers’ money.
Nam said he was overwhelmed by what happened to him afterwards. He first received a letter from the presidential office urging him and his company to print corrections according to unusually lengthy and detailed guidelines. He ignored a letter from LKB & Partners, one of the nation’s top law firms which was representing the first lady. Weeks later they sued him, after the two sides failed to reach an agreement arranged by the Press Arbitration Committee.
Nam compares his legal battle against Cheong Wa Dae to a showdown akin to David and Goliath.
“I felt pressure (when I looked at the sender of the thick package of documents because I knew who they were),” Nam said in a phone interview with The Korea Times on Monday. “There were lots of naysayers around me and they encouraged me to do what Cheong Wa Dae asked me to do. They said Cheong Wa Dae would mobilize all the resources it could to win the battle.”
You can read more at the link, but Mr. Nam should consider himself lucky that he wasn’t thrown in jail like other Korean journalists critical of President Moon.
Mr. Nam should consider himself lucky that he wasn’t thrown in jail like other Korean journalists critical of President Moon.
In Korea, according to the law, a person can be jailed for libel, defamation, and slander, if it can be proved in a court of law.
Depending on the case, jail time can be less than two years or less than five years with fines ranging from USD 5,000 to USD 10,000.
There’s also a passage in the article above that GIKorea seems to have missed;
Reporters Without Borders’ world media freedom rankings say differently. In the 2019 survey, for example, South Korea ranked 41st on the World Press Freedom Index. In contrast, the nation stood at 70th in the survey in 2016, before Moon was sworn in as president.
Commie moon using his crooked courts to supress his crooked truths. All going to come out past May 10th…