I think no matter what the evidence says this was something that was going to happen regardless because this is more about politics than fact finding:
South Korean Defense Minister Song Young-moo reads out a statement on Feb. 9, 2018, offering an apology for the military’s use of force against pro-democracy protesters in Gwangju in 1980. (Yonhap)
South Korea’s defense minister offered an official apology Friday for the military’s brutal use of force against pro-democracy protesters in Gwangju in 1980.
“As the minister of national defense, I offer a sincere apology and (words of) comfort to Gwangju citizens that our military has left suffering in the process of the May 18 Democratization Movement 38 years ago,” Song Young-moo said in a statement.
It came two days after the ministry’s special fact-finding team announced the results of five months of investigation into suspicions about the military’s role in the suppression of those protesting against the junta of Chun Doo-hwan.
The civilian-government panel said the Army launched helicopter gunship attacks on citizens in the southwestern city, with fighter jets armed with bombs on standby as a backup. The findings were based on the review of documents and interviews on witnesses. [Yonhap]
Protesters in front of Lotte Department Store in Gwangju on Saturday spread out a banner ahead of ripping it in a bid to protest against the deployment of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system and Lotte Group. The chaebol conglomerate signed a land swap deal with the Ministry of National Defense in late February to provide the government with a site for hosting the THAAD. / Yonhap
A vehicle sprays disinfectant on a road in Gwangju, about 330 kilometers south of Seoul, on Jan. 31, 2017, as a precaution to prevent the spread of avian influenza after seven pigeons were found dead there. The nation’s deadliest outbreak of bird flu has ravaged poultry farms nationwide since mid-November. (Yonhap)
This is a horrible case of rape and forced prostitution in Gwangju:
Police requested arrest warrants for two men who locked up a runaway teenager and allegedly forced her into prostitution, Wednesday.
The Gwangju Dong-bu Police said the men, aged 20 and 18, had invited a 17-year-old runaway they befriended via a chatting app to live with them, then turned violent once she moved in.
The victim stayed with them for 12 days.
Police requested arrest warrants for two men who locked up a runaway teenager and allegedly forced her into prostitution, Wednesday.
The Gwangju Dong-bu Police said the men, aged 20 and 18, had invited a 17-year-old runaway they befriended via a chatting app to live with them, then turned violent once she moved in.
The victim stayed with them for 12 days. [Korea Herald]
It looks like this so called Kenyan refugee will be having an extended stay in Korea after committing this brutal murder of a PC bang employee:
An African man who has applied for refugee status killed an employee at a PC cafe in Gwangju on Wednesday, and then robbed a customer.
The man, 28, a Kenyan, whose name has not been released, went to the cafe in South Jeolla Province in the morning. He chatted with an employee, a Korean man, 38.
The otherwise empty cafe’s security camera showed the two chatting briefly before going to a washroom in the basement.
The camera then shows the Kenyan returning to the cafe alone.
The man then robbed a male customer, 22, stealing his winter jacket and smartphone, and then fled. The customer reported the theft to police, who later arrested the Kenyan.
Police found the cafe employee dead in the washroom, with a chopstick and spoon jammed in his mouth. [Korea Times]
This is a pretty brutal murder that happened recently in Gwangju where two siblings upset with their father decided to brutally kill him with a screwdriver and knife:
A recent case of parricide in Gwangju, in which a brother and sister allegedly stabbed their father in the heart and neck, has received more than the usual amount of media attention this week because of the day the siblings chose.
A 47-year-old woman and her 43-year-old brother were arrested for allegedly killing their father on Sunday, when the rest of the nation was celebrating Parents’ Day. The victim was 76.
Gwangju police say the siblings have admitted to killing their father on Sunday, but they don’t believe their professed reason.
The suspects have asserted under questioning that they have been deeply upset with their father over the past two decades because of his ill treatment of their mother, who passed away in 2011 after years of suffering from mental and physical illnesses.
The mother was disabled in a car accident in the 1990s and suffered from dementia before she died, the police quoted the siblings as saying. [Joong Ang Ilbo]
You can read the rest at the link as well as over at the Korea Herald.
Two foreign visitors shoot water guns on a street in the southwestern city of Gwangju on July 11, 2015, to blow off the summer heat and stress as they take part in a water gun festival held on the sidelines of the ongoing Summer Universiade in the city. (Yonhap)
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