Park Geun-hye's "Ink Treasure" was splashed with paint by Kim (South Korea's Kyungpok Daily)
Infographic: Park Geun-hye (news 1) with an inscription
According to Yonhap News Agency on December 3, South Korea's Daejeon District Court issued a judgment on the 2nd, sentencing Kim Mou, a man who threw paint on Park Geun-hye's inscription stone tablet in May this year, to 6 months in prison and suspended for 2 years.
In explaining the reasons for the judgment, the judge said that Jin's approach was a "symbolic and historical disparagement" of the stele, which had an impact on people who stood different from his position. However, no major damage was done to the stele.
The original appearance of the stone stele, which means "Sejong Special MunicipalIty Office" in Korean (Yonhap News Agency)
In front of the sejong city government office building, the "administrative capital" of South Korea, there is a stone stele with an inscription on Park Geun-hye's presidency. Since Park Geun-hye's accident, the stone stele, which cost nearly 120,000 yuan, has not been peaceful.
Many South Koreans dismissed it as a "symbol of accumulated malpractices" and called on the government to dismantle it as soon as possible. More emotional agitators, using paint to vent their dissatisfaction.
Painted Korean man (Kyungpok Daily)
At 10:12 a.m. on May 1, 24-year-old Jin came to the sejong municipal government office building and splashed red paint while shouting "remove the stone stele".
He also distributed leaflets around him, saying that "it is impossible to tolerate a stone stele inscribed by a person impeached by the citizens, erected like a landmark in Sejong City." ”
After the "Ganzheng gate" was exposed, the stone tablets were plastered with slogans such as "Arrest Park Geun-hye"
Jin was prosecuted for allegedly damaging public property.
After the stone monument was destroyed, sejong city government hired professionals to restore it. A total of 4.95 million won (nearly 30,000 yuan) was spent. All the expenses were paid by Jin.
After Ms. Park's arrest, the stele was plastered with posters that read "Immediate demolition."
According to earlier reports by overseas networks, in July 2015, then-President Park Geun-hye wrote an inscription on the former stone monument of Sejong City Government. Unexpectedly, the following year (2016), the "Ganzhengmen" scandal that shocked South Korea was exposed, and in November of that year, a South Korean citizens' group issued a statement criticizing Park Geun-hye for failing to faithfully fulfill her policy commitments to Sejong City, denouncing the monument she wrote as "shame to the people of Sejong City" and calling on her to "tear down the stone monument herself in good conscience."
In February 2018, Sejong Mayor Lee Chun-hee made a statement that he would keep the stele in situ. (Overseas Network Liu Qiang)
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