Officials from Park Geun-hye Administration Acquitted of Charges of Obstructing Investigation in Sewol Ferry Tragedy
It is amazing that it has been over eight years since the Sewol ferry disaster and legal actions are still happening:
![Lee Byung-kee, former chief of staff of the Park Geun-hye administration, talks to the press after his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on Wednesday. [YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2023/02/01/ee542fb1-ef32-46fe-afdd-175ab15c02aa.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
Lee Byung-kee, former chief of staff of the Park Geun-hye administration, talks to the press after his trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on Wednesday. [YONHAP]
Nine officials that worked under President Park Geun-hye were acquitted on charges of obstructing the investigation into the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry that killed more than 300 people in 2014, many of them students on a school trip.
The officials, which included Lee Byung-kee, chief of staff of President Park, were accused of obstructing a special committee that was formed in 2015 to investigate the Sewol ferry tragedy, including the 7 hours President Park was reportedly missing.
All nine former officials were indicted without detention in May 2020 on charges of obstructing the appointment of a key official on the committee, the dispatch of 17 public officials and ending the investigation period of the committee prematurely.The Seoul Central District Court said while it acknowledge some of the acts were committed, it noted that the investigation did not go into detail to prove who or how those acts violated the law.
Joong Ang Ilbo
The court acquitted them on the charges for lack of evidence in proving any malfeasance.
You can read more at the link, but basically what these officials were being accused of was trying to cover up former President Park’s actions the day of the Sewol tragedy, the so called missing seven hours. Media speculation said she was having botox treatments or even an affair during the missing seven hours. None of this was true when an investigation by the Moon administration showed she was meeting with the infamous Choi Soon-shil and getting her hair done and the report of the accident was left on a note outside her door.
Even if she was notified immediately it would not have made a difference on what happened that day. If a rescue was going to happen it was going to have to be by first responders from the ROK Coast Guard. The Coast Guard office in Mokpo immediately sent a vessel to the accident site after receiving emergency phone calls from passengers. The vessel arrived at the scene before the sinking, but did not order the passengers to evacuate. This contributed to the various reasons why so many people died when the Sewol sunk.
Regardless the official timeline is not flattering towards President Park and apparently her staff tried to shield her from scrutiny and thus the legal actions that were taken against them by the follow on Moon administration.
that was all part of the left-wing coup against President Park.
And who’s in power at this moment? Park’s former party, the same right-wing party. Of course, they’ll clear their own people.
South Korea posts the worst trade deficit in the country’s history – $47.5 billion for 2022.
https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/01/south-korea-posts-the-worst-trade-deficit-in-its-history.html
Thank you Right Wing Party, President Yoon, and their overlords, the United States of America.
It takes extraordinary talent and effort to do this badly.
When he spends most of his time f*cking things up and shoring up America’s industries at the expense of South Korea’s, this is the result. Let’s see if the Korean citizens remain quiet going forward, and let’s see if Yoon Suck can last until the summer rolls around.
It always amazes me how much South Koreans hate South Koreans…
I understand the CCP hillbillies (and their Norkistani puppets) being jealous of South Korea’s success since 1953—to the point of loudly showing their absolute ignorance regarding economic indicators—but I can’t understand how some people hate their own country so much.
It’s as if they have no family.
The only South Koreans I ever met that hated South Korea were chinese posing as South Koreans.
Korea’s unity and nationalism keep everything as one big successful family with very common goals.
This is the purpose of tribes and nations (and correct corporate structure).
Tolerance and diversity is not a force multiplier.
Observing foreign cultures and adopting their successes and rejecting their failures is a force multiplier.
Korea has done that pretty well by adopting some of the good traits of America and Japan.
Unfortunately, Korea is being seduced by the globalists… who are playing off Korea’s inferiority complex (which has been obsolete since the early 90s).
“You can be so much more than little Korea if you just join the global community. You could be world leaders.”
Koreans fancy themselves world leaders. They will be happy to become world leaders.
But, of course, they won’t.
Korea will be fùcked harder than the American middle class.
And “Korean” corporations are now global corporations. Samsung and Hyundai will do the minimum so Koreans don’t notice they have moved most of their manufacturing outside Korea and much of their profits get distributed to global shareholders and not the Korean economy.
This will only get worse.
Meanwhile, the globalists say, “National debt is GOOD for a nation. If you follow these green policies, you will get international respect. Korea really seems to be behind with facial recognition cameras everywhere to stop that crime problem. Cash is so outdated.”
Sewol incident from start to finish was a set up job to trigger the commie coup