"Seong Il-jong Resign" Daejin-yeon Member Who Illegally Entered the People Power Party Headquarters Faces Trial

Two members of the Korean University Students Progressive Union (Daejin-yeon) who stormed into the central party office demanding the resignation of Seong Il-jong, a member of the People Power Party, have been brought to trial.

On the 2nd, the Criminal Division 6 of the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office (Chief Prosecutor Lee Jae-man) announced that two Daejin-yeon members were indicted in custody on charges including violation of the Act on the Aggravated Punishment, etc. of Specific Crimes related to Violence.

They are accused of unlawfully entering the People Power Party office in Yeongdeungpo-gu on the morning of the 9th of last month and staging a sit-in demanding the resignation of Assemblyman Seong. At that time, even after being dragged outside by the police, they refused to disperse and continued an unreported assembly, leading to their arrest in flagrante delicto.

The police applied for arrest warrants for four of the seven Daejin-yeon members who entered the party office, and the court issued arrest warrants for two of them.

Assemblyman Seong sparked controversy on the 3rd of last month at the Seosan Scholarship Foundation scholarship award ceremony by referring to It? Hirobumi as "a figure who brought about a terrible situation on the Korean Peninsula and thus an unfortunate part of our history, but also a precedent of Japan nurturing talent before us."

Assemblyman Seong later apologized, saying, "I sincerely regret that my analogy was inappropriate and did not reflect the intent while mentioning the importance of the scholarship project."

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