Top Prosecutor Offers Apology to Father over Son’s Torture Death in 1987

BUSAN/SEOUL, March 20 (Korea Bizwire) – South Korea’s chief prosecutor on Tuesday apologized to the father of a student who was killed by police torture in 1987, sparking the landmark June 10 popular uprising against the authoritarian Chun Doo-hwan government. Prosecutor-General Moon Moo-il visited bedridden Park Jeong-ki, father of late Seoul National University student Park Jong-chul, at a nursing home in the southeastern port city of Busan. [...]