Resignation of a member of parliament for south Korean accused of sexual assault

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Ahn Hee-jung, one of the politicians most influential in the country, resigned on Tuesday from his post as governor after having been accused of multiple rapes.

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Monday, 12 march, 2018 04:20

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SEOUL, South Korea | A member of south korea resigned on Monday after he was accused of sexual assault, in a new illustration of the impact of the flood #metoo.

Min Byung-doo, who was in his third term on the label of the democratic Party in power, has declined despite the calls of members of his formation who were trying to convince him to stay, to not undermine the majority.

He is the first member of parliament from south korea to resign after being implicated in the movement against the sexual abuse that runs through South Korea as the rest of the world.

A woman had under the cover of anonymity said in an interview with the website Newstapa that Mr. Min had kissed her by force and had opened the zipper of his pants during a karaoke in 2008.

The elected 59-year-old had denied last week these accusations in a press release said that he was “ready to resign, if I have committed the misdeeds of which I was not aware”.

This resignation must be approved by the Parliament. If necessary it will weaken to 120 seats the majority in the lower house, which is four more than the conservatives of the freedom Party of Korea.

Gold at least seven partial legislative are already planned in June.

On Monday, the largest library of Seoul has also decided to put an end to an exhibition dedicated to the great poet, Ko A, 84-year-old, whose name is regularly mentioned for the Nobel Prize.

It has also been overtaken by charges of sexual assault against another author famous, Choi Young-mi, a 56-year-old, who has published a poem narrating, without ever naming his eldest son, the abuse he allegedly inflicted.

Another poet, Park Jin-sung, was said to have been a witness to the assault committed by Kb A, accusing the literary circles of knowledge, but not to say anything.

Given the excitement aroused by these revelations, the ministry of south Korean Education announced last week that almost all the mentions of Kb A and his work would be removed from textbooks.

The planetary motion #Metoo, born in the wake of accusations against the american producer Harvey Weinstein, has also released the word of the South Korean, until then, been very reticent to publicly denounce the behavior of men in a society that is still very patriarchal.

The most resounding has been that of Ahn Hee-jung, one of the politicians most influential in the country, who resigned last Tuesday from his post as governor and announced his withdrawal from political life after being accused by a co-worker in multiple rapes.