[Newsmaker] Top court orders ex-President Chun to be tried in Gwangju in defamation case
Social affairsNov 30, 2018
The Supreme Court has upheld lower courts' rejection of former President Chun Doo-hwan's request to be tried in Seoul, instead of Gwangju, in a defamation case involving his memoir, court officials said Friday.The top court made the ruling on Thursday after lower courts had refused to accept Chun's demand that the jurisdiction of his case be changed from Gwangju to Seoul because he cannot travel to the southwestern city, about 330 kilometers away, due to old age, according to the officials.(Yonh