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There was a Supreme Court ruling that the state should compensate, but the victims could not rejoice.

This is because most of the victims lost the opportunity to receive compensation due to the Supreme Court ruling seven years ago that the state was not responsible for compensation.



Reporter Han So-hee tells the story of the victims.



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Pastor Nam-soo Park, who was taken to prison by detectives after three seminary students tried to present a declaration against the Yushin rule.



The seminary student who was in his 20s is now over 70.



[Park Nam-soo / Victim of Emergency Measures: After 50 years, we are over 70 and our hair has turned gray and we are now old (we are old.) Thank you to the Supreme Court for giving us a precious judgment.



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This is because, according to the estimates of the victims' groups, about 60% of the victims lost the opportunity for compensation after losing the case due to the Supreme Court ruling 7 years ago that the state was not responsible for compensation.



The chief judge of the Supreme Court, who delivered the verdict at the time, was former Supreme Court Justice Kwon Soon-il, who was embroiled in controversy after his retirement due to the Daejang-dong case.



Candidate Seok-Jun Oh also overturned the first trial, which was judged in favor of some victims of emergency measures in 2016, in line with the Supreme Court precedent in 2015, when he was the presiding judge of the appeals court.



[Kim Hyung-tae / Litigation Agent: (As of 2015) The president who made the law has only political responsibility because it is an act of government, and the state agencies that investigated and judged according to the law are not intentionally negligent when they act in accordance with the law. It's all gone...

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The victims requested an apology and an explanation from the Supreme Court in 2015 after the judgment was corrected after 7 years.



[Jung Byung-moon / Victim of Emergency Measures: I want to ask Justice Kwon Soon-il.

In preparation for today's judgment and the judgment you made, you must explain and explain to the public (.)]



The victims' organization plans to urge the enactment of a special law so that victims who have already been defeated can also receive compensation.



(Video coverage: Kim Tae-hoon, video editing: Jeon Min-gyu)