According to Channel News Asia reports that Cho Yoon-sun, South Korea’s former culture minister, will spend two years in jail for creating a blacklist of 10,000 artists who were viewed as being disapproving of Park Geun-hye’s presidency (Park was forced out of her role last March).
Prior to Cho’s position as culture minister, she was Park’s policy advisor. The court said it was “reasonable” to conclude that she had worked with Park in preventing state support of “certain artists.” Cho, who was on bail, was arrested in the courtroom today, January 23.
The blacklist included a wide range of artists from various fields, such as filmmaker Park Chan-Wook and writer Han Kang, who won the Man Booker International Prize in 2016
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