The late Park Won-soon, former Seoul Mayor victim, first appeared on the 17th, 252 days after the incident. Only about 60 reporters who attended the press conference could see his face. Victim A, who came to the stage at the end of the interview, said, “As a person with free will, as a victim of an incident, I have a heart to say what I want to say before it is too late for my dignity and recovery.” Revealed the background.
The Seoul Mayor’s Joint Action (Joint Action) in the mighty sexual violence case held a press conference titled’Speaking with the Mayor of Seoul’s Powerful Sexual Violence Victims’ at the Grand Ballroom on the 3rd floor of the Tmark Grand Hotel in Jung-gu, Seoul. The organizers announced the conference schedule the day before, and announced that admission was restricted except for the reporters who submitted the application for participation. As previously announced, photographing and video recording and recording were not permitted in the order of A’s speech.
On the morning of the 17th, at a press conference held at a hotel in Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, the late Park Won-soon victim of the sexual violence incident was prepared at a press conference. Photo co-review group
Write a pledge at the press conference and enter
The press conference was a solemn atmosphere. The reporters lined up an hour before the start. After confirming the reception at the entrance, the reporters signed a pledge not to film or record related to Mr. A, received a name tag, and entered in turn.
In the first order, the standing statement written by the victim, “I want to say it before it is too late,” was read by Song Lan-hee, the standing representative of Korean Women’s Telephone. “His power continues to torment me with people who do not admit his fault even after he passed away,” Mr. A said. “His power is the ruthlessness of those who think that only they are justice. “It was used as a means of protecting their ideology when they bothered me happily.”
Afterwards ▶ Kim Hye-jeong, director of the Korean Sexual Violence Counseling Center ▶ Seo Hye-jin victims’ lawyers, light house ▶ Former co-worker of Lee Dae-ho victims, former Seoul media secretary ▶ Lee Ga-hyun, co-representative of the feminist party founding meeting ▶ Bae Jin-kyung, co-representative of the Korean Women’s Workers Association ▶ Lee Soo-jeong, professor of crime psychology at Gyeonggi University ▶ Kwon Kim Hyun-young, female They continued to speak in the order of scholars.
Professor Lee Soo-jung said, “I have a word I want to say, so I suddenly accepted the request to participate today.” Therefore, please stop the secondary abuse.”
Seo Hye-jin and Park Won-soon, an attorney for the victims of sexual violence (third from left), are speaking at a press conference’Speaking with the Mayor of Seoul’s Violent Sexual Violence Victims’ held at a hotel in Myeong-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 17th. Photo co-review group
“The perpetrators and victims change with extreme choices.”
Subsequently, when it was time for Mr. A to speak, the organizers asked the reporters to withdraw the camera and microphone. The press conference, which was broadcast live on the official YouTube channel of the Korean Women’s Phone, was also replaced with subtitles without sound transmission. Mr. A sat in the leftmost’victim’ seat among the participants, but it did not appear in the video. Attorney Kim Jae-ryun (Onse-sang Law Firm), who has been advocating for Mr. A, was present.
Mr. A said, “For victims of sexual violence, speaking is the beginning of meaningful healing.” While reading the interview, Mr. A cried and struggled to talk. He said, “It was very difficult for me to be recognized as a fact of what I went through and the process of accomplishing the basic work. Due to the extreme choices, the positions of the perpetrator and the victim changed, It felt like there was no place for humans to stand.” He said, “I couldn’t easily get away from the secondary abuse that blamed me for distorting the facts of my damage, but the fact is that the victim of this incident is me from start to finish.”
He continued, “I sincerely ask those who still raise doubts about the fact of the damage to stop the exhausting debate now. It is the other person who has given up the right to defend. If the deceased is alive and went through the judicial process and exercised the right to defend himself, the case is a little bit more I think it could have been close to the truth. The damage caused by the deceased’s renunciation of defense was entirely my part,” he said.
There were also questions and answers with reporters. Regarding the opportunity for the press conference, Mr. A said, “I think there are a lot of reasons for the elections to be held.” “I have a fear that I will never be able to return.”
When he asked what was the most difficult to bear so far, he said, “It is about the leakage of personal information,” and said, “Even though I was investigated under a pseudonym by an investigative agency, and there was no fear of my personal information being leaked, it was amid the brutal secondary abuse of the supporters. I’m holding on to it,” he appealed. “The second thing is that the people who have worked with me are leading the second offense.” I am very sorry for that,” he added. Mayor Park’s side is interpreted as indirectly criticizing Mr. A’s refutation by revealing a letter written to Mayor Park in the past.
Reporter Kwon Hye-rim [email protected]
