Proposed — not lawSupportedKR
11 November 2025
Official Cabinet remarks — Office of the President
- Target
- No general independent-praise or comprehensive hate-speech crime is quoted as live
- Test
- Gap. Official direction to create penalties is not a statute. Existing tools (criminal defamation / insult) are not this quote.
- Max
- n/a — no quoted speech crime
We must quickly set up measures to penalize hate speech and do all we can to fundamentally prevent and strictly punish the dissemination of false and fabricated information. … Racial hatred or discrimination and the spread of misinformation that distorts or fabricates facts are a threat to democracy and daily life and must be eradicated.
Official English report of President Lee Jae Myung’s 11 November 2025 Cabinet remarks, korea.net (the official website of the Republic of Korea), published 12 November 2025.
Cite · Office of the President, Cabinet meeting 11 November 2025, as reported on korea.net · as of 2026-09-05
- Do not speak as if Korea has a general independent hate-speech crime on this record.
- Supported as official speech that measures to penalize hate speech still needed to be set up. That is not a live independent-praise or comprehensive hate-speech crime.
- NHRCK statements urge government action against hate speech; they are not a penal code section.
- Existing tools (criminal defamation / insult) are neighbouring instruments, not this quote.