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According to Yonhap News Agency, the Seoul Western District Court in South Korea made a first-instance verdict on the 24th in the case of former Yonsei University professor Yoo Seok-chun for damaging the reputation of victims of the Japanese military’s “comfort women” system, and acquitted Yoo Seok-chun. Previously, Yoo Seok-chun claimed during the sociology course at Yonsei University in 2019 that “Japanese military comfort women” can be called “a type of prostitute.”
According to reports, the Seoul Western District Court in South Korea stated on the 24th that it was difficult to regard the defendant’s remarks (“Comfort women can be called a type of prostitute”) as a crime of defamation based on the evidence submitted by the prosecutor alone. Although the relevant speech goes against traditional concepts and the metaphor is inappropriate, given that the Constitution highly guarantees the academic freedom of universities and the freedom of professors, professors’ freedom should be restricted to the minimum, even if the content and methods seem to violate existing practices and order. This should not be lightly viewed as illegal.
Author:Catherine
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