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Democracy and National Security in South Korea: The Song Du Yol Affair

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 May 2025

Kajimura Tai'ichiro
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Upon his arrival at Seoul's Incheon airport in September 2003, Song Du Yol, professor of philosophy and sociology at Germany's Munster University, was arrested and indicted for offences under South Korea's National Security Law. Prosecutors demanded a fifteen-year sentence. In March 2004 he was found guilty and sentenced to seven years in prison. On appeal, this was reduced to three years, suspended for five years, and on 21 July 2004 he was released. Though now free, he is still not completely free from the web of the National Security Law, and a final “not guilty” verdict still lies somewhere in the future.

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Asia-Pacific Journal , Volume 2 , Issue 12 , December 2004 , e3
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