The Moon Jae-in admin said it'll charter 4 airplanes to Wuhan to evacuate SK citizens, but goes back & forth whether it'll evacuate those w symptoms–that's because China won't allow Koreans with symptoms to leave, so they're left behind.https://t.co/PnPH5zxjZu
President Moon poses with newly promoted generalsPresident Moon Jae-in (front row, C) poses with newly promoted general officers at Cheong Wa Dae in Seoul on Jan. 29, 2020. (Yonhap)
What is incredible is that Im is claiming this is a political prosecution against him by Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl when Yoon was hand selected by President Moon just back in July for the position. So how bad must the corruption be when Yoon is moving forward with this prosecution after being hand selected by President Moon and then having his deputy prosecutors replaced by the Moon administration in an effort to cover this up?:
Im Jong-seok, President Moon Jae-in’s former chief of staff, speaks to reporters on his way to questioning by the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office on Thursday. [NEWS1]
Im Jong-seok, President Moon Jae-in’s former chief of staff, voluntarily faced the press on his way to be questioned as a criminal suspect Thursday and attacked Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-youl for conducting a politically motivated investigation of him.
Im, who served as Moon’s chief of staff from May 2017 till January 2019, arrived at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in southern Seoul around 10 a.m. and addressed the press before entering the building. Im was questioned by prosecutors about an allegation that top Blue House officials abused their power to influence the Ulsan mayoral election in 2018.
The presidential office is accused of masterminding a police probe against then-Ulsan Mayor Kim Gi-hyeon of the opposition Liberty Korea Party (LKP) in order to help Moon’s friend, Song Cheol-ho, win the race. Song and 12 others were indicted on Wednesday on charges of election law violations.
You can read more at the link, but Im must be livid because he was supposed to be getting away with all this with the people President Moon hand selected in the prosecution. Before anyone starts shedding any tears for poor Im remember he is the one that led a group that tried to bomb the U.S. embassy in Seoul and once served as the bagman for the Kim regime in North Korea.
More cases of the coronavirus are identified in South Korea:
Concerns are growing over further spread of the new coronavirus here, especially person-to-person transmission, as South Korea reported five more cases in just one day on Friday, bringing the total here to 11 despite stepped-up quarantine efforts.
Of the confirmed cases, four are presumed to be potentially human transmissions as they had not traveled to China and other nations recently.
According to the Korea Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (KCDC), the country’s seventh case involves a 28-year-old South Korean man who visited Wuhan, the epicenter of the outbreak, and returned via the Chinese port city of Qingdao on Jan. 23.
He did not show any related symptoms upon arrival at Incheon International Airport, west of Seoul.
Coronavirus scare Angry residents in Asan, South Chungcheong Province, confront police while mobilizing farm machines to block a road leading to a public facility on Jan. 29, 2020, as the government reportedly plans to isolate part of some 700 South Korean nationals there, who will be evacuated from the coronavirus-originated Chinese city of Wuhan in the coming days via chartered flights. (Yonhap)
Considering all the scandals surrounding Cho Kuk it makes you wonder why Seoul National University wanted him back in the first place:
Cho Kuk
Cho Kuk, former justice minister indicted over an ex-vice mayor’s bribery case, was suspended from duty as a professor at Seoul National University (SNU) on Wednesday, officials said.
The university said it has decided to impose an administrative action against Cho, who resumed his job as professor of the SNU law school in October 2019 after stepping down from the justice minister post following a scandal involving his family.
“As of Wednesday, we decided to relieve him of his duty on the judgment that it would be difficult (for Cho) to normally carry out his job,” the university said.
Hwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Fest temporary closureHwacheon Sancheoneo Ice Festival organizers put up signs asking visitors not to step on the ice for safety reasons on Jan. 28, 2020. The festival draws in large numbers of visitors and officially opened this week, but warm weather is making it hard for people to go on the ice and fish. (Yonhap)
Hopefully the number of people infected doesn’t get any worse:
South Korean disease control authorities say 28 people are being monitored for suspected coronavirus infection, but there have been no additional cases since the country’s fourth patient was confirmed Monday. As the disease rapidly spreads in China, top diplomats from Seoul and Beijing discussed ways to fight the outbreak together, including the evacuation of Koreans from Wuhan, the epicenter of the crisis. Our Kim Bum-soo wraps up the latest.
You can read more at the link, but one of the people in South Korea infected is from Pyeongtaek which is near Osan Airbase and Camp Humphreys. Just another reason to practice good hygiene in South Korea.
The removal of the spending cap at USFK commissaries in South Korea did not last long due to the black marketeers:
The U.S. military has reimposed monthly commissary purchase limits in South Korea, less than a month after a retiree was banned from bases over black marketing allegations.
The new policy, effective as of Jan. 23, means that commissary shoppers will again be limited to $800 for the main sponsor and $300 for additional family members per month. Anybody who needs to spend more must request an exception from squadron or battalion commanders.
The decision was based on purchasing trends showing that most authorized shoppers stayed “well below” the limits since the purchasing cap was lifted in September, U.S. Forces Korea said Tuesday in announcing the decision on social media.
