South Korean Culture Minister, Cho Yoon-sun Detained
Cho Yoon-sun arrested for alleged abuse of authority by creating a black list of artists, writers and celebrities who are critical of President termakzul, Park Geun-hye.
tirto.id - Minister of Culture of South Korea (ROK) Cho Yoon-sun was detained by South Korea on Saturday (01/21/2017) related to the alleged abuse of authority by creating a black list of artists, writers and celebrities who are critical of President termakzul, Park Geun -hye.
Reported Between, on the allegations, Cho Yoon-sun also become South Korea's first active ministers who were detained. Associated with it, Cho also declined to give a statement to reporters, before he underwent on Saturday afternoon.
According to the news agency Yonhap, Cho Yoon-sun earlier also offered to resign from office.
Yonhap also reported that Prime Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn, who temporarily served as president pending the Constitutional Court's decision on the fate of impeached President Park post-parliament, will soon accept Cho's resignation.
Park impeached by parliament last month related to a corruption scandal. Park is likely to be the leader of the first democratically elected, but was removed from office when the Constitutional Court supports the impeachment of South Korean parliament.
Proponents Park on Saturday staged a protest rally against the impeachment, while the anti-Park also take place later on the same day.
According to the prosecutor's office, the South really faced with a widespread political crisis, the government and the country have been using the black list as "guidelines" to apply penalties to the artist and the material sensor.
The Seoul Central District Court said that the Minister Cho arrested for crimes has been "verified and there is concern about the destruction of evidence".
Special prosecutor's office on Wednesday had asked the court issued an arrest warrant for Cho along with a former presidential chief of staff, Kim Ki-choon, for abuse of authority and perjury.
Prosecuting team this week examine Cho and Kim on charges that they had made a blacklist containing the names of the actors, writers and other cultural figures, which are considered critical of the government.
Park by the authorities and the parliament accused of tapping the entertainment industry as retaliation for a wide range of satire and criticism which they have embarked.
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