It is known that Shinsegae Group Vice Chairman Jung Yong-jin, who recently became controversial for his successive SNS (social media) posts such as 'I hate the Communist Party' and 'Annihilation', received a correspondence inquiry in June and November of last year.
On the 7th, Vice Chairman Chung announced through his Instagram that he had been inquired about communication data to the prosecution, and released a confirmation of the communication data provision about him.
According to the confirmation letter, KT provided details such as the name, resident registration number, address, phone number, registration date, and cancellation date of Vice Chairman Chung at the request of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office on June 9, last year.
In addition, KT submitted the same details at the request of the Incheon District Prosecutor's Office on November 8 last year.
It seems that Vice Chairman Chung inquired about whether to inquire communication data with KT on the 5th, two days ago, and received such details.
The 5th is the same day that Vice Chairman Chung protested that his Instagram post related to 'Destruction' had been deleted for reasons such as 'violence and incitement'.
Vice Chairman Chung wrote in a post that day along with the confirmation of the correspondence inquiry, "If there is no trial in progress, no execution of a sentence, or no other investigation under investigation, it means that my communication details were stolen to prevent harm to national security..." .
According to Article 83 of the current Telecommunications Business Act, if a court, public prosecutor or the head of an investigation agency, or the head of an information investigation agency requests the provision of communication data for the purpose of collecting information to prevent a trial, investigation, execution of punishment, or damage to national security, telecommunication It stipulates that the business operator can comply with the request.
Since the end of last year, Vice Chairman Chung, who has posted several posts to the effect of 'I hate the Communist Party', captured an article criticizing the government's public policy under the headline, '(Korea) cannot protest once against China, where it is not.' I did it.
The article also includes a picture of Chinese President Xi Jinping, general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China.
(Photo = Vice Chairman Yong-jin Jeong Instagram capture, Yonhap News)