"Arrested as a Traitor" Report on Retaliation Against Professor Ryu Seok-chun, Seoul's Voice Representative Mr. Baek Sent to Prosecution

Professor Ryu Seok-chun, Department of Sociology, Yonsei University / [Yonhap News Archive Photo]

[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Park Hee-eun] Baek Eun-jong, the representative of the online media outlet 'Seoul's Voice,' was sent to the prosecution after engaging in a physical altercation with Professor Ryu Seok-chun of Yonsei University's Department of Sociology, who made derogatory remarks about comfort women, and Lee Woo-yeon, a research fellow at the Nakseongdae Institute of Economic Research and co-author of 'Anti-Japan Tribalism,' threatening to punish them.

On the 19th, the Gwanak Police Station in Seoul announced that Baek Eun-jong, the representative of the internet newspaper 'Seoul's Voice,' who is accused of insult, assault, and defamation (violations of the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc.), was sent to the prosecution with a recommendation for indictment twice, once in January and again earlier this month.

Earlier, Professor Ryu and Research Fellow Lee filed complaints against Baek last October.

Baek is accused of visiting Professor Ryu's research office in September last year, where Ryu had made derogatory remarks about comfort women, and engaging in a physical fight while calling him "a Japanese spy."

He is also accused of insulting Lee Woo-yeon, co-author of 'Anti-Japan Tribalism' and research fellow at the Nakseongdae Institute of Economic Research, by calling him a "native Japanese collaborator" when he visited him in July of the same year.

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