HUFS Emergency Planning Committee (EPC) of the Seoul Campus announced the 2016 Denunciation of the Influence of Choi Soon-sil scandal in ten different languages during a press interview in front of the Main Building, Seoul Campus on Oct. 28, followed by the HUFS professors’ denunciation on Nov. 15.

Students declared that for Choi Soon-sil, who has no official position in the President’s administration, to exercise considerable power is destructive to democracy.
“Park Geun-hye should be taking full responsibility for Choi?s monopolization of government administration,” they said.

The vice president of the EPC, Kim Hyung-hwan said, “I thought that putting the uniqueness of HUFS, which studies a variety of languages, to full use could widely inform foreign nations.”

The students majoring in various languages voluntarily translated the denunciations of influence written in Korean, into ten languages, including Portuguese, Swedish, Hindi etc. Over 200 students participated in the press conference, and approximately ten delivered free speeches despite the school hours. The denunciation signed by 263 professors was also declared in the latter announcement.

Meanwhile, starting with Sogang University and Ewha Womans University on Oct. 26, the number of universities to announce the denunciation reached over 100 in eight days. The professors, international students, civic organizations, middle and high school students are following suit, spreading the denunciation across the nation.
Choi Soon-sil is suspected to have intervened in the governmental affairs, privatized the Mir and K Sports Foundations and tampered with her daughter’s academic records.