The morning newspaper on the 27th paid attention to the post-mortem response of the former party leader Kim Jong-cheol of the Justice Party. While analyzing the background of this incident as well as the continuing sexual offenses in politics in major pages such as the first page, it reported that the Justice Party’s response was different from the existing political parties. The response of the Democratic Party and the Nationalist Party to the incident was conceived as an attitude of evading responsibility without reflecting on the party, or rather making it a favorable election.
Contrasting sexual violence response between the people’s strength and the Democratic Party and the Justice Party
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Solidarity voices came out from the political world as well. Democratic Party lawmaker Lee So-young said at the in-house countermeasure meeting, “I send consolation, respect, and solidarity to Congressman.” Justice Party Rep. Sim Sang-jung said on Facebook the day before, “I send a deep consolation and a will of solid solidarity to Rep. Jang, who gave me courage even in pain for solidarity with other victims.”
In the following article, the Seoul newspaper published an analysis, saying, “The background of the continuous sexual offenses in the politics was played by a male-centered organization and the peculiarity of the peak of power.” The newspaper said, “The culture peculiar to politics, which uses even sex crimes as party policy, is also pointed to as the cause.”
Sexual offenses by politicians have occurred in all camps. The Seoul newspaper listed the recent sexual crimes of the Democratic Party’s regional leader and the sexual violence of the people’s strength politicians, including Secretary General Choi Yeon-hee, National Assembly Speaker Park Hee-tae, and spokesman Yoon Chang-jung during the GNP and Saenuri Party days. “It turned out that even the Justice Party, which made gender human rights a top priority, is not free from this issue. It is a part that suggests that there is a twisted manipulation culture throughout the politics.”
The Seoul newspaper said, “Right and opposition lawmakers agree that the’focus of power’ is more serious than other organizations in politics,” and said that there is a large difference in power between leadership and general lawmakers, such as party representatives and in-house representatives. The newspaper also said, “It is key that the leadership holds the right of nomination, which is the right to live and die,” said a political official. The fact that women in the current large bipartisan leadership has no women except for the top committee members in their nominated positions is one of the representative examples of political culture centered on men in their 50s.
The Seoul newspaper said, “Experts are paying attention to the justice party’s solution,” said Lee Soo-jeong, a special member of the People’s Strength Sexual Violence Countermeasures. He said, “It will have an impact on the way the politicians are resolved in the future in that the victims are not neutralized but solidarity.”
The Hankyoreh said in the article on the front page, “The Justice Party coping with this incident, in many ways, contrasts with the precedents of the two major parties” in “The Righteous Party Coping,” which was a disastrous but no compromise. The Justice Party held a strategy council on this afternoon and organized an emergency response meeting with a congressman and delegation with the aim of resolving and resolving the situation in a responsible manner. It was decided to hold daily meetings to discuss whether or not to be nominated for re-election in April, to check the organizational culture and to prepare measures to prevent recurrence.
The Hankyoreh said that Bae Bok-ju, head of the Justice Party’s gender human rights headquarters and vice-president, played a role in the Justice Party’s initial response. The reporter asked, “Exactly what kind of damage was it?” “Is it drinking?” to Vice President Bae, who had finished briefing on the sexual harassment and position of former CEO Kim, but he did not respond. Afterwards, Facebook said, “If you disclose a specific behavior, you consider the severity of the behavior, and you say,’That’s enough,”That’s how it is,’, and the judgment about sexual harassment is based on the conventional wisdom of individuals. It creates unnecessary controversy and blurs the essence of the case,” he wrote.
The party thoroughly closed the entire process of the investigation to prevent secondary abuse, and also announced a firm response to the second offense. The Hankyoreh emphasized that “effective measures to prevent recurrence are more important than correcting the situation.”
On the 3rd page of the Kyunghyang Shinmun, “Experts assessed that the Justice Party’s response was an exemplary case in which the actions of the Justice Party were’affected by the perpetrator’,’acknowledgement and apology of the perpetrator’, and’the party initiated investigation and disciplinary action’. “We couldn’t find the’official’ for dealing with sexual violence by established political parties, such as’Doodun the perpetrator’ and’second offense’.” He said, “As the fact of sexual harassment by former CEO Kim does not disappear, reflection and reflection of political parties including the Justice Party should be carried out.”
The Hankook Ilbo said, “The reason the Justice Party was regarded as a valuable entity in the Korean political landscape was because it was evaluated as a political party that puts the’values’ of equality and respect for human rights ahead of political engineering.” I suffered fatal injuries.” “The dissolution of the party is not the answer,” said Kim Eun-ju, director of the Korean Women’s Politics Research Institute, saying, “The 586 generations will withdraw and the next generation needs to be in charge of leadership.”
Newspapers criticized the reaction of the Democratic Party and the people for its ignorance of responsibility for the sexual violence incidents that the Party has, or rather using the incident as a party. The Hankook Ilbo, “I can’t afford to blame,” In-sook Kwon, who apologized for South Korea. “Is’Me Too’ my weapon? The articles of “People’s Power of the wrong number” were placed side by side.
The Hankook Ilbo said that Democratic Party lawmaker Kwon In-sook apologized for expressing the Democratic Party’s stance on the sexual harassment case of former Justice Party representative Kim. The Hankook Ilbo said, “The power of the people started on the Democratic Party’s intensive offensive by using the sexual harassment case of former CEO Kim as a link.” Said.
The Chosun Ilbo reported on the first and fifth pages of Kwon’s article. The Chosun Ilbo said, “Rep. Kwon is a victim of the 1986’Bucheon-seo sexual torture incident’. It was the first time that such a magnetic voice came out inside the Democratic Party.” On the fifth page, he said, “I expressed displeasure,” referring to the fact that Justice Party lawmaker Ryu Ho-jeong said to the Democratic Party that he had advised the Democratic Party to “prevent other damages, but I will definitely do that.” No article was published about the reaction of the people’s power.
In newspaper editorials, “Protect’Kim Hak’s Withdrawal’ of Public Interest Reporters”
Former Vice Minister of Justice Kim Hak-eui suspicious of illegal departure from the country The public interest reporter requested the National Rights Committee to take measures to protect the reporter. The KFTC is considering whether to take protective measures and whether to refer the case to the high-ranking officials criminal investigation office. Meanwhile, on the 26th, the prosecution confiscated and searched the anti-corruption force of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office.
Former Vice Minister Kim was banned from leaving the country at Incheon Airport in the early morning of March 23, 2019. The prosecution is investigating the suspicion that the prosecutor Lee Amugae, who was dispatched to the former Great Prosecutor’s Office at the time, created a false case number and requested a ban on departure. Suwon District Prosecutors’ Anyang Branch investigated the suspicion of illegal withdrawal from April 2019. Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office Lee Seong-yoon was the anti-corruption chief at the time.
The Hankook Ilbo, on the first page of “The elevated status of the Kwon Ik Committee, stands in the test of neutrality,” says “According to the launch of the Ministry of Public Affairs, it is expected that cases will rush to the rights and interest committees that do not require identification when reporting a high-ranking public official. “However, as there are many people who tend to be close to the main positions, including the chairman of the rights and interests committee, political controversy over the judgment of the rights and interests committee is expected to increase.” The Kwon Ik Committee sends cases that need investigation or investigation to the investigative agency, and while this decision has a significant impact on the development of the case, the Kwon Ik Committee has been appointed mainly by politicians from the ruling party.
Five newspapers, Kyunghyang, Seoul, the world, the central government, and Korea, issued editorials calling for the protection of Kim Hak’s illegal withdrawal public interest reporters. The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “The conservative opposition party rebels against it, saying, “It makes sense to take this case in the airlift.” I said. The Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “We must thoroughly protect the public interest informant in this case,” and “I am very concerned because the Ministry of Justice has a policy to punish the informant.”
The JoongAng Ilbo said in a statement by Cha Gyu-geun, head of the Immigration and Foreigners Policy Division of the Ministry of Justice, and a candidate for the Ministry of Justice Park Bum-gye, regarding the leakage of confidentiality for public service of public interest reporters, “under the Public Interest Reporter Protection Act, even if the public interest report contains official secrets, it is believed that they did not violate the duty to comply with confidentiality. He said, “It is regrettable that the ruling party as well as the high-ranking officials of the Ministry of Justice, whose main business is to establish legal order and defend human rights, have joined the attack on public interest reporters.”
The Hankook Ilbo also said, “It is not without controversy, but it is pointed out that trying to punish a reporter for an issue of which the illegality is not clear is a measure to silence the truth.”
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