On Mayor Park Won-soon's Suicide and the Position of the #MeToo Complainant

1. In his days as a lawyer, Mayor Park Won-soon handled the first 'workplace sexual harassment lawsuit' in our country. If you Google the Seoul National University assistant-professor's-assistant ('U-assistant') sexual harassment case, various materials come up. In fact, beyond this case, there were various cases Park Won-soon defended during his life as a lawyer. The problem is that such cases cannot represent his whole. On the other hand, his being accused of 'sexual harassment' likewise cannot represent that person's whole.

- Mayor Park Won-soon's life

- The complainant's position

- People's thoughts

- My thoughts

1) Can a person really be judged by a single incident? I think that's far too difficult a thing. The biggest reason that, having arrived at the postmodern era, we can feel that an individual placing 'glasses' on a museum floor might be a 'work of art,' is that we achieved a shift in perception — that we should view the work within the continuity of the individual's life. At the root of that perceptual shift lies 'postmodernism.' It's about acknowledging the diversity of each individual's life. So regarding Mayor Park Won-soon's death, I'd like to render this judgment: if the sexual harassment is true, the part of Park Won-soon's life that committed sexual harassment is at fault and should pay the price, but it's hard to call even the rest of his life guilty. Of course, this 'guilty ~ not guilty' life is also one continuous human being, so it's very hard to define up to where is a guilty person and up to where is an innocent, blameless person.

2) Was it right for Park Won-soon to take his own life like this? Can we say that meeting death pays the price sufficiently, as opposed to finishing out time in prison while living under the censure of the press and citizens?
- For example, even when a criminal like Cho Doo-soon — who prompted the enactment of the 'Na-young Act' — has served out the sentence the court pronounced, can we say Cho Doo-soon has paid the price for the 'sin' he committed? The Korean sentiment I feel is that the perception 'sentences are too light' and the perception 'even after serving the sentence, once a sinner, forever a sinner' are very strong.

3) Can we stop those who go as mourners? If they visit not as politicians but as colleagues or friends, can we say they are wrong?

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