No Chuseok Meal for Former First Couple
A very different Chuseok experience for former President Yoon and his wife this year:
Then-President Yoon Suk Yeol and then-first lady Kim Keon Hee celebrate the Chuseok holiday in this video message released in 2023. Courtesy of the Presidential Office
Former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife, Kim Keon Hee, spent their first Chuseok in jail without any special meal, according to the Ministry of Justice, Monday.
Until last year, the ministry’s Korea Correctional Service provided inmates with special meals during the mid-autumn harvest festival that falls on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, as well as during the Lunar New Year, in accordance with the Enforcement Decree of the Act on Execution of Sentences and Treatment of Inmates.
Due to budget cuts for special meals in prisons this year, however, the agency stopped offering special food during Chuseok and the Lunar New Year.
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The treatment of the former president has been very, very petty with all attempts to maximize discomfort and embarassment.
Petty but understandable through a certain lens of politics.
But Chusok is a different matter.
Chusok is about Korea and Koreans.
Denying a chusok meal to a Korean is not an attack on a Korean. It is an attack on 5000 years of Korean culture… well… maybe closer to 2000 in this case. But it is older than Christmas.
Korea denying chusok to a Korean is unthinkable.
…but not unthinkable when the political direction of Korea is increasingly being engineered from outside Korea.
The bastards are more petty than the American SCOAMF.