Korean President Moon’s Last Reform
A self-pardoning move?
By: Shim Jae Hoon
Just a few days before he stepped down from office last month, South Korea’s outgoing President Moon Jae-in hurriedly affixed his signature to a newly revised law that stripped the prosecution’s power to investigate cases of corruption and abuse of power by politicians.
It was a well-taken move as far as timing was concerned, as quite a …
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