"‘Ito Hirobumi Remarks, Seong Il-jong Resign’... 7 Members of Daejin-yeon Sent to Prosecution After Intruding into People Power Party Headquarters"

Seven members of the Korean University Students Progressive Union (Daejin-yeon), who stormed the People Power Party headquarters demanding the resignation of Representative Seong Il-jong over his controversial remarks about Ito Hirobumi, have been referred to the prosecution.

Members of the Korean University Students Progressive Union are staging a sit-in protest demanding the resignation of Seong Il-jong, a member of the People Power Party.
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On the 15th, the Yeongdeungpo Police Station in Seoul announced that two members of Daejin-yeon were sent to prosecution in custody and the remaining five were sent without detention on charges including violation of the Assembly and Demonstration Act.

On the 9th at around 11:20 a.m., they unlawfully entered the People Power Party headquarters in Yeongdeungpo-gu and staged a sit-in protest demanding Representative Seong's resignation. Even after being dragged outside the headquarters by the police, they refused to disperse and continued their sit-in protest, resulting in their arrest on the spot. The police applied for arrest warrants for four individuals. The court issued arrest warrants for two, citing "risk of flight," and dismissed the others.

Earlier, on the 3rd, Representative Seong sparked controversy by stating at the Seosan Scholarship Foundation scholarship award ceremony that Ito Hirobumi was "a figure who brought about a terrible situation on the Korean Peninsula and thus an unfortunate part of our history, but (Japan) had the precedent of nurturing talented individuals before us."

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