The 尹 who said, "I sentenced Jeon Doo-hwan to life in prison..."Remarks as candidates 're-lighted'

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An anecdote about President Yoon Suk Yeol's sentence of Chun Doo-hwan to "life imprisonment" in a mock trial when he was a law student at Seoul National University is being re-examined.

President Yoon appeared on SBS entertainment show 'All the Butlers' on September 19, 2021, when he was a candidate.

In the episode, President Yoon introduced an anecdote in which he sentenced Chun Doo-hwan to life in prison at the December 12 Military Rebellion mock trial held at Seoul National University Correctional Center in early May 1980. President

Yoon explained, "I (treated) Chun Doo-hwan, who was the highest real power in Korea at the time, as the presiding judge and accused of (rebellion) gangsters, as an absentee and sentenced him to life imprisonment."

He also introduced an anecdote about avoiding martial law forces. President Yoon said, "As of midnight on May 18, the emergency martial law was expanded nationwide," adding, "When I went to school, soldiers with armored vehicles and guns were guarding it." "I couldn't enter the school and was told to stay in Gangneung (where my mother was), so I went," he said. "After I left home, (Kyeom-gun) came to my house."

In addition, President Yoon has repeatedly expressed his critical stance on Chun Doo-hwan.

When a participant asked, "Do you still have the heart of beating Jeon Doo-hwan (in life imprisonment) in a mock trial when he was a student?" in a meeting with those involved shortly after visiting Gwangju National May 18 Democratic Cemetery on July 17, 2021, when he was a candidate.

Chun Doo-hwan's new military took power in the December 12 military revolt in 1979, and the following year, on May 17, 1980, the emergency martial law was expanded nationwide and three airborne brigades were deployed to Gwangju.

This has killed 166 civilians and injured thousands.

Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team