South Korea’s top court has cleared a scholar of charges that she defamed Korean sexual slavery victims during the Japanese colonial rule in her contentious book published in 2013. Thursday’s ruling in the criminal case of Park Yu-ha isn’t the end of her long-running legal battle: she faces a separate civil suit.
Professor Park Yu-ha answers reporters’ questions outside the Supreme Court of Korea in Seoul, South Korea, Thursday, Oct. 26, 2023. SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s top court on Thursday cleared a scholar of charges of defaming the KoreanThursday’s ruling in the criminal case of Park Yu-ha isn’t the end of her long-running legal battle, as she faces a separate civil suit.
Prosecutors and Park’s critics earlier accused her of defaming ex-sex slaves by writing that they were proud of their jobs and had comrade-like relationships with Japanese soldiers while the Japanese military wasn’t officially involved in the forceful mobilization of sex slaves. Park welcomed the ruling. “I think today’s verdict is a ruling that determines whether the freedom of thought exists in Republic of Korea,” she wrote on Facebook.
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