4 issues in Korea

Gov't Finally Decides to

Raise Sunken Ferry

A year after the incident, the

Government commenced their
plans to raise the sunken ferry.
However, it may take as much
as five months to start the
operation as the Government
would have to choose a domestic or a foreign bidder who can raise the ferry up, which would take
up to 2 months, and also, plan the procedure, which would take around 3 months. Overall, it would
take over a year to bring the body of the ferry back up to surface.

Ex-Prime Minister Vows to Fight Bribery Case

Ex Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo ended his 70-day term on Monday, who resigned over an accused
bribery case.
Korea will be without a prime minister until one
is chosen.
Lee is suspected of stealing W30 million by
using bribery from Sung Wan-jung, who is a
shady tycoon and former lawmaker and
committed suicide earlier this month. He provided a statement that connects many several senior
figures close to Park.
However, Lee denied all evidence and protested his innocence. He also said that he was very sorry
for causing the public to worry over the scandal.
Sewol captain gets life in prison

An appeals court has raised Sewol ferry captain Lee Joon-seoks sentence to
life in prison.
The Gwangju High Court convicted him of murdering 304 passengers because
he left the ship, without doing anything to save the passengers.

Lee was only interested in saving himself instead of looking out for the
passengers on board whose safety solely depended upon the captains
instructions in such an emergency.

Lee claimed that he told crew members to evacuate the passengers,

however, there were no enough evidence to support his claims, as there
were close to no rescue efforts made.

Singer said he sees ghosts to evade military service

A Seoul court sentenced hip-hop singer Kim Woo-joo to one year in prison,
whom attempted to evade mandatory military duty by lying about his mental
health.

The singer was charged using deceptive strategies to evade and to reduce the time duration of the
service.

In 2004, he received his conscription notice and delayed it a couple of more

times, citing his continuing education.

When he ran out of excuses, he began to claim that he suffered hallucinations

and was seeing ghosts. He presented records of 42 fake visits to different
mental hospitals between the time period of March 2012 and May 2014, and
received a lighter military duty, as he wanted.