A civic group staged a rally in front of a police station in Seoul where Chun Woo-won — the grandson of former South Korean President Chun Doo-hwan — is being investigated for drug crimes, calling for a greater focus on the junior Chun’s other claims.
On March 17, Chun was taken to a hospital after using drugs during a live YouTube broadcast. As South Korea claims jurisdiction over its citizens even outside the country, Koreans can be subject to prosecution even for drug offenses overseas.
Chun Woo-won has repeatedly expressed his desire to apologize for the massacre and acts of violence that happened during his grandfather’s regime. The elder Chun was a military dictator who held the country in his grasp from 1980 to 1988. “If comes, we plan to provide an opportunity where he can meet the bereaved families and victims and apologize,” Lee Ki-bong, the chairman of the May 18 foundation, told The Korea Herald.
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