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The ruling party, which is claiming the pardon of former President Lee Myung-bak, has also come up with stories that past presidents have granted special amnesty on the occasion of Liberation Day in their first year in office.

This is what Kwon Seong-dong, floor leader of the People's Power, said, and our fact-checking team analyzed the special amnesty of the past government. 



Correspondent Lee Kyung-won. 



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[Kwon Seon-dong/People's Power Floor Leader: All governments generally implemented national unification amnesty during their first year in office on August 15th.] 



After democratization in 1987, special amnesty on August 15th, the first year in power, was Kim Dae-jung , the Roh Moo-hyun and Lee Myung-bak governments, have been there three times. 



As the remarks of floor leader Kwon can be read as emphasizing the beginning of power, we focused on the term 'first year in power' and checked it. 



In fact, it is the current state of special amnesty by government after democratization that the team analyzed.



In all, more than 200,000 people were pardoned 43 times.



The part that has just changed color is a special amnesty within one year of taking office, and there are many things you can see with your own eyes.



Let's calculate in detail.



Within one year of the tenure, a total of 13 pardons, 126,000 people, 63% of the total, and about 2/3 of the special pardons were granted within one year of the tenure.



In this regard, Kwon's words can be generally regarded as true.



However, it is necessary to consider the specificity of the time period.



After democratization, the amnesty within a year of taking power had a strong character to organize the history of military rule.



The amnesty commemorating the inauguration of the Kim Young-sam government included Pastor Ik-hwan Moon, who was imprisoned for visiting North Korea.



[Kim Young-sam/Former President (March 1993): (Special amnesty inauguration) is to clear away the shadows accumulated over the past 30 years and start anew in dialogue.]



Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun government They were mainly pro-democracy activists.



On the other hand, those who were subject to special amnesty within the first year of the Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations were mainly those who livelihood.



In the end, the team's conclusion is that the special amnesty, the presidential authority, was a product of the times and political environment, and that even in the first year of the same period in office, the amnesty has been comprehensively considered the context of the times and the public sentiment. 



(Video editing: Lee Seung-jin, CG: Seo Hyun-joong)



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