All posts tagged "libel"

  • Park Won-soon is receiving mixed reactions from South Korean citizens after openly supporting gay marriage. (Korea Times file)
    Seoul mayor sues online community netizens for libel

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — Seoul mayor Park Won-soon filed a defamation suit Thursday against a number of netizens from a right-wing online community for raising draft-dodging rumors against his son, city officials said. In the complaint lodged with...

    • Posted September 10, 2015
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  • Chief of staff Kim Ki-choon at parliamentary hearing (Yonhap)
    Park’s chief of staff files libel suit against reporter

    SEOUL (Yonhap) — President Park Geun-hye’s chief of staff filed a libel suit against a reporter of one of South Korea’s major newspapers, an official said Monday, the latest in a series of legal actions over a...

    • Posted December 8, 2014
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