Witnesses claim to have seen Chun Doo-hwan play golf around time of his first trial
Former South Korean president Chun Doo-hwan, 88, who is being tried on charges of defaming the deceased, declined to appear at the first hearing of his criminal case in Aug. 2018 because he was suffering from Alzheimers disease. But now the Hankyoreh has learned that Chun went golfing around the same time. Witnesses also say they saw Chun and his wife, Lee Sun-ja, at the same golf course this past December.
In a memoir published in Apr. 2017, Chun described the late Catholic father Cho Cheol-hyeon (also known as Cho Pius) as Satan wearing a mask. Cho testified that government martial law troops had fired on protesters from helicopters during the Gwangju Uprising in May 1980. Chun was indicted without detention on May 3, 2018, on the charge of libeling Cho.
Chuns first hearing was held on Aug. 27, 2018, at the Gwangju District Court, but Chun didnt appear at court, explaining that his Alzheimers symptoms were getting worse. He also failed to appear at the second hearing, which was held on Jan. 7, for similar reasons.
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Chun and his party were also spotted by an individual surnamed Lee, 50. I saw them from less than five meters away. And while I was playing golf, I could see them on the course behind me. Chun was walking around without a cane and hitting the ball without anyones help, and he didnt seem to have any major health problems. In fact, he looked young. He sometimes would walk instead of riding on the cart, and their game was going really quickly, Lee said.
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http://english.hani.co.kr/arti/english_edition/e_national/878816.html
Just call the assassin and dictator Trump Doo-hwan
As an FYI defamation is pretty serious here in Korea