Due to legislation initiated by two ruling party members will be instrumental in convicting and impeaching President Park.
One allows emails and other electronically transmitted data to be used as evidence. Before, we could not use emails. It just went into effect in May of this year and pro-Park fanatic Kim Jin-tae was the one who authored the bill. Without this legislation, the tablet PC that contains the incriminating electronic files could not be used as evidence in a court of law. Kim Jin-tae wanted this legislation because the prosecution couldn't use emails as evidence in prosecuting an alleged spy, or something, if I remember correctly.
Another was authored by President Park's longtime legal advisor and ex-Presidential Chief Secretary Kim Ki-chun. He tried to impeach President Noh Moo-hyun. When the Constitutional Court ruled against impeachment, he authored a bill that makes justices write their opinions individually, rather than just the majority ruling. This is very good. Now, we know exactly how the justices voted and their reasons. Less room for funny business.
Yesterday, Kim Ki-chun was forbidden to leave the country. He also perjured himself by swearing he did not know Choi Soon-sil. When video evidence of him sitting at a hearing investigating claims of Choi Soon-sil's involvement with Park Keun-hye in 2007 (she was running for ruling party leader) proved that he knew about Choi Soon-sil, he changed his testimony. He said that he knew about Choi Soon-sil, but forgot due to old age. He also added that he only knew about her, and that he did not know her personally.
Along with Kim Ki-chun, Samsung Vice-chairman Lee Jae-young, SK Chairman Choi -Tae-won, and Lotte Chairman Shin Dong-bin were also forbidden to leave the country.
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The media estimates that 10 witnesses to the Parliamentary investigation into the Choi Soon-sil scandal have perjured themselves. Perjury in front of Parliamentary investigations was rarely punished before, but now they will be imprisoned for 1-10 years. For them, it is better to lie than admit the truth, since the truth carries such a large penalty. Another year or two added to their sentences is better than to admit everything on national TV.
There was a 60 Minutes type of show on the SBS TV channel about murders and deaths surrounding the Yookyung Foundation which was set up by Dictator Park Chung-hee. President Park and her siblings ran this foundation during the times when all the income vanished and only debts remained. It appears two or three people were murdered in order to silence them and prevent them from testifying against associates of the Park family. Wonder how this one will turn out.
All the skeletons are coming out of the closet now.
Movies on blacklisted topics will be coming out next year. Movies about the Sewol ferry tragedy, meddling in the last Presidential elections by Korean intelligence and the Military Cyber Command, and illegal slush funds gathered during the Lee Myung-bak administration. These three movies were backed by crowd funding, I think.
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