Source: World Wide Web
According to South Korea's Nusis News Agency reported on the 2nd, the South Korean court rejected the arrest warrant for South Korean men suspected of insulting the South Korean flag such as breaking into a middle school in Incheon without authorization, graffiti and burning the South Korean flag, and then flying the Japanese flag instead. The Han court said that "the suspect generally admitted guilt" and "considering his attitude of cooperating with the investigation, we believe that there is no need to detain him."
According to reports, the South Korean man in his 30s who was involved in the incident broke into a middle school in Incheon City at about 1:24 a.m. on August 29. He lowered the Korean flag "Taiji Flag" on the flagpole of the school's flag-raising platform and scribbled on the flag, writing "Dokdo is Japanese territory." Subsequently, he burned the flag and raised the Japanese flag "Sun Flag" at the flag-raising platform. At about 9:06 a.m. on the same day, the relevant people of the school saw the "sun flag" hanging on the flagpole of the flag-raising platform of the school sports field, and immediately called the police. After reviewing the surveillance video at the scene, the police arrested the man on the afternoon of August 30 and launched an investigation into him through questioning and investigation.
However, South Korea's Newsis News Agency reported on the 2nd that the Incheon District Court of South Korea said on the same day that it has rejected the arrest warrant for the man. As for the reasons for rejecting the arrest warrant, the relevant person in the court explained that "the suspect generally admitted guilt, and we also collected relevant evidence" and "considering his attitude to cooperate with the investigation, we believe that there is no need to detain him.".
According to reports, when the man was investigated by the police, he claimed that the purpose of the crime was "to show the acquaintances of the middle school, and only committed the crime" and that "the 'sun flag' was accidentally picked up at the scene of the Gwanghwamun demonstration in Seoul in the past."
In addition, South Korea's Nusis News Agency also said that August 29, the crime committed by the man, was South Korea's "Gengji National Shame Day". On this day in 1910, the Treaty of Annexation between Japan and South Korea entered into force, and under the aggression of Japanese imperialism, the Korean Peninsula officially became a Japanese colony.