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20-Year-Old Arrested for Disparaging "Comfort Women" Victims Online... First Case Under Punishment Regulations

(Changwon=Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Jong-ho = The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency's Cyber Investigation Division is investigating allegations of writing and distributing false posts regarding Japanese military comfort women victims on various internet communities...

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A university student in their 20s has been arrested by the police for disparaging comfort women victims and spreading false information online 211 times. This marks the first application of the amendment to the Comfort Women Victims Act, which went into effect in June, and the police have announced that they will strictly respond to future malicious acts of historical distortion with a zero-tolerance policy.

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The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency’s Cyber Investigation Division announced on the 28th that it had “booked Mr. G (in his 20s) without detention on charges of spreading false information about Japanese military ‘comfort women’ victims on the internet (violation of the Act on Protection, Support, and Commemorative Projects, etc. for Victims of Japanese Military ‘Comfort Women’ under Japanese Colonial Rule).” The aforementioned law [regarding]…

(Changwon=Yonhap News) Reporter Jeong Jong-ho = The Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency's Cyber Investigation Division is investigating allegations of writing and distributing false posts regarding Japanese military comfort women victims on various internet communities...

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A man in his 20s has been arrested for writing and distributing false posts about Japanese military "comfort women" victims on various internet communities. According to Yonhap News on the 28th, the Cyber Investigation Division of the Gyeongnam Provincial Police Agency arrested and referred to the prosecution without detention a man identified as A, who is in his 20s, on charges of writing and distributing false posts about Japanese military "co…

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연합뉴스-Yonhap News Agency broke the news in Seoul, Korea (the Republic of) on Wednesday, October 28, 2026.
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