Gov't resumes awarding state honors to democracy martyrs after 4-year suspension

The Korea Times

Gov't resumes awarding state honors to democracy martyrs after 4-year suspension

The government resumed awarding state honors to pro-democracy martyrs and activists Wednesday after a four-year suspension that began under the administration of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol in 2022. Twenty-eight individuals and three organizations have been selected as award recipients this year, including the late Seoul National University professor Choi Jong-gil who was tortured to death in 1973 at the then state intelligence agency while under investigation for protesting the authoritarian Yushin rule of then President Park Chung-hee. "Today, we are resuming government awards for the development of democracy, which had been suspended for four years since 2022," Prime Minister Kim Min-seok said in an address at a ceremony commemorating the 1987 nationwide democracy uprising that eventually led to the adoption of a direct presidential election system. "This is an expression of our will to remember the noble sacrifice made for the country until the end," he said. The 1987 uprising began across the nation on June 10 and the then government of general-turned-authoritarian Preside

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