Im Jong-seok, chief of staff to former President Moon Jae-in, is being portrayed as a “victim” of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea’s (DPK) conflict between Chairman Lee Jae-myung and a pro-Moon faction, as Im has been sidelined from the party’s candidate nominations for the upcoming April 10 general elections.
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South Koreans woke Friday to dramatic political circumstances: The firebrand leader of the country's leftist opposition party, already hospitalized in a dramatic protest hunger strike against government policies, could soon be behind bars.
A Seoul court on Wednesday granted an injunction to ban a documentary film that raises doubts about sexual harassment allegations against former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, which led to his suicide in 2020. The Seoul metropolitan government and lawyer Kim Jae-ryon representing the female victim filed the injunction on Aug. 1 seeking to prohibit the screening of the documentary titled "First Defense." The Seo.
In 1964, then-18-year-old Choi Mal-ja became a convict for fighting off an attempted rapist by biting off a part of his tongue, with the prosecution and court waving off her claims of self-defense. This case, for which she currently seeks a retrial, stands as a landmark in wrongful convictions and serves as a reminder of the abysmal state of women's rights during that era. Since then, the rights of women or sex .