Jeon Han-gil, a former Korean history instructor turned YouTuber who claimed that President Lee Jae-myung had a child out of wedlock, that Reform Party lawmaker Lee Jun-seok falsified his academic credentials, and that North Korea was involved in the 1980 Gwangju Democratization Movement, has been referred to prosecutors.
The Metropolitan Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency said on the 2nd that it referred Jeon to the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on Oct. 30 on charges of defamation under the Information and Communications Network Act and violation of the law on the May 18 Democratization Movement.
Jeon is accused of spreading false claims on his YouTube channel since last year, including that the president had amassed 160 trillion won in overseas slush funds and handed military secrets to China, and that he had a child out of wedlock with Kim Hyun-ji, head of the Presidential Office's First Secretarial Division.
Jeon also faces allegations that he claimed the lawmaker had won his seat through electoral fraud and had forged his Harvard University degree. In April, he spread false claims suggesting North Korea was involved in the May 18 Democratization Movement. On his broadcast, Jeon said the uprising was "an insurrection led by supporters of former President Kim Dae-jung and North Korea," adding that "North Koreans actually came down, and the father of someone I know turned out to be one of those who came down at the time." The...
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