Comments on: Korean prosecutors want their R-E-S-P-E-C-T from Lone Star execs

By: railwaycharm

railwaycharm — Sat, 11 Nov 2006 07:28:06 +0000

Like little boys they will hold their breath and stamp thier feet. What a joke. Ha ha in the land of frozen French babies.

By: dlatn

dlatn — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 15:07:23 +0000

“And my position has always been that the Korean court is the most professional and independent institution in the country. It’s much better than the executive”
and it takes the executive to support the independence of the judiciary, otherwise youd have cunts like lee hoi chang running around rubber stamping shit for dictators

but if you wine and dine with the yangban who pillage the country…

By: slim

slim — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 13:07:44 +0000

Korea Inc will not be Korea Inc if the system doesn’t unite to take those barbarians down.

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 12:55:42 +0000

Sorry Brendon. I thought I had read the opposite. Good to know that things have started getting better recently.

…now if only the judges working the IP cases can get a clue…

By: Brendon Carr

Brendon Carr — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 10:11:18 +0000

Wait a minute — I haven’t argued that the Korean court has become little more than a rubber stamp for the prosecution “over the last 10 years”. As Wedge noted, while the court historically has been more pliable than one would find in the West, it’s got more and more backbone over the last 10 years. And my position has always been that the Korean court is the most professional and independent institution in the country. It’s much better than the executive.

By: Wedge

Wedge — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 09:00:48 +0000

Haisan–I think you have it wrong. The judges are no longer the rubber stampers they used to be. Every year the judiciary rejects more arrest warrant requests–I think it’s something like 21% rejection in 2005, up from 0% in 2003.

By: Haisan

Haisan — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 07:16:21 +0000

Anyone have any idea why the judges are standing up to the prosecutor this time? As Brendon and others have noted, the judiciary have become little more than rubber stamps to the prosecutors’ office over the past 10 years or so. Is there something unique about this case, does Lone Star just have better counsel, or is the prosecutor so out of line that even a Korean judge has to ignore him?

By: LivingnKorea

LivingnKorea — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 05:14:08 +0000

The whole process is based on emotion instead the facts. Because Lone Star would not play the “game”, the prosecution is out to get them any way possible. Basically, the prosecution are acting like a bunch of vigilantes, trying to stretch the law to help them “save face” because at this point from my viewpoint, looks like the prosecution is going to lose this one.

By: Hugh

Hugh — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 04:27:12 +0000

Have to second #5’s observation: Ask a hundred Koreans if they think their justice system effectively and impartially dispenses justice, and 99 of them will probably burn your ears cursing. Why prosecutors expect foreigners to “respect” the system Koreans themselves consider a corrupt joke is a either a testament to how out of touch they (prosecutors) are with Korean society, or a cynical nationalistic whine after getting turned down.

A hat tip, though, to the judge who actually seems to have had the integrity or logic to say “You’ve seized every file, and investigated for months, and now you want arrest warrents for what even you admit is no evidence, only ’suspicion’? Piss off and stop wasting my time”

By: R. Elgin

R. Elgin — Thu, 09 Nov 2006 03:08:17 +0000

Perhaps the it would be wiser by asking why it is that the average Korean citizen does not have confidence in the Korean legal system. I know I have little faith in it though parts of it are largely run by decent people.