President Lee Jae-myung on the 6th sharply criticized a group that has staged protests demanding the removal of the "Statue of Peace," a symbol of victims of the Japanese military's wartime sexual slavery, calling it "brainless defamation of the dead."
On X (formerly Twitter) that day, the president shared a news article L.I.N.C showing that officials of the far-right group had been booked by police and were under investigation, and wrote as follows.
Lee wrote, "Such brainless... defamation of the dead."
The article said that Kim Byeong-heon, head of the far-right civic group "Action for the Abolition of the Comfort Women Act," and others had been booked by police and are currently investigating.
Kim held multiple protests demanding the removal of the Statue of Peace. In the process, Kim drew criticism for hateful actions such as labeling comfort women victims as sex workers or putting a mask bearing the phrase "removal" on the statue.
Earlier, the Yangsan Police Station in South Gyeongsang Province said it had booked Kim on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection (defamation), violating the Assembly and Demonstration Act, and property damage, and is currently investigating.