Cho Hee Dae, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court

Cho Hee Dae, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, is being pressured to resign by the ruling party, Together “Communist” Party. The party’s stance is the same with China Lee administration’s because Kang Yoo Jung Spokesperson of China Lee’s administration announced that Executive Office of the President expressed “조희대 사퇴 원칙적 공감” which means it…

Why is South Korea retrying a spy chief who assassinated a president?

Suhnwook Lee BBC Korean Two gunshots. That is how Yoo Seok-sul begins recounting the night of Friday, 26 October, 1979. A former security guard in the Korea Central Intelligence Agency, or KCIA, as the South’s spy division was known, Yoo has many stories to tell. But this is perhaps the most infamous. He remembers the…