The 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival is being held at 12:00 noon on the 17th at the public transport zone in Jung-gu, Daegu. Reporter Kyuhyun Kim
From the morning of the 17th, the 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival was held in an unusual confrontation between the police and the administrative authorities. The 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival was held as scheduled from 12:00 noon on the same day at the public transport zone in Jung-gu, Daegu. About 500 employees of Daegu City Hall and Jung-gu Office came to the site for administrative operation in the public transport zone in Jung-gu, Daegu, where the festival was held this morning. This is because the organizers of the festival were not allowed to occupy roads in the transport centre. The Daegu Police Agency deployed a total of 1,500 people, including 1,300 police officers from 20 companies and 200 traffic police and general staff, from 7 am on the same day. While the city of Daegu has decided not to take steps to avoid city buses, the police are providing traffic guidelines for general drivers, such as detour measures, and to prevent clashes with anti-festival rallies and notices of administrative actions from City Hall and Jung. -gu Office. Daegu City Hall officials blocked the incident vehicle with their bodies at 9:25am and confronted the police for about 30 minutes. The conflict between the police and the administrative authorities ended at 12:00 noon, just before the incident began, when the officers left on their own. A Daegu city official suggested, “This is the first time the police and civil servants have clashed.”
On the morning of the 17th, Daegu City officials are confronted by police officers directing traffic to enter a stage vehicle hosting the Daegu Queer Culture Festival at the public transportation zone in Jung-gu, Daegu City. random news
At one point, Daegu City Hall officials blocked the road with a banner hung by the Dongseong-ro Merchants Association, and citizens protested, saying, “Isn’t it embarrassing?” On the placard they had, the phrase “Opposing the Daegu Queer (Homosexuality) Festival which arbitrarily blocks public transport for 10 hours” is written on it. Amugae Kim (51), a citizen of Daegu who saw this, said, “The public officials were carrying the tarpaulins that the trade association had put on the side of the road. Maybe they are ashamed of themselves, but later they step on the part where the name of the merchant association is written and hidden. I am so ashamed of the Mayor of Daegu, Hong Joon-pyo, who pours hateful and discriminatory comments against minorities while getting public officials to prepare.” Oh Eun-ji (52) also said, “The market’s political calculations discriminate against LGBTI people and make hate speech itself, which is very disturbing. As a citizen of Daegu and a parent of an LGBTQ child, I am very dissatisfied.” When the festival managed to go ahead according to schedule, festival participants applauded and cheered, saying “We won” and “Daegu police are cool”. Kim Seon-joo (39), who attended the festival, said, “I watched anxiously to see if the event itself could go on safely, but the police helped me hold the festival safely. Thank you very much, and it’s a hot day, but I’m happy to be together in this space.” Jeong Eun-ae (60), a member of the LGBTQ Parents Association, said she was from Gunsan, North Jeolla Province. Daegu Queer Festival can be held more successfully than ever before.”
On the afternoon of the 17th, at the 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival in the Jung-gu public transportation area of Daegu City, a participant shows an amulet with “Queer Jackpot” written on it. Reporter Kyuhyun Kim
Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo visited the scene this morning and said, “I will hold the head of the Daegu Police Agency accountable for causing the civil servants to clash. Police pushed officers and restricted bus traffic to protect illegal road occupation protests. The court ruled that there were no restrictions on assemblies and demonstrations, but did not order them to occupy public roads that were not permitted to be occupied.” He said, “I consulted the police several times, but I don’t understand how they interpret the law this way. A police officer in Moon Jae-in’s era would have done that, but the world has changed. The era of illegal assemblies is over,” he added. Daegu City has defined the queer culture festival as ‘illegal’, but there are responses that Daegu City’s measures are unreasonable. The Daegu Police Agency Public Officers Workplace Association released a statement on Mayor Hong’s comments that day, saying, “Mayor Hong argues that occupying the roads is illegal apart from the legitimacy of the assembly, but occupying the roads is illegal for assemblies that they are not allowed to do so. occupying the road after reporting the assembly The ruling that we cannot see is a consistent approach, as court precedents. Getting permission to occupy roads while holding legally reported assemblies can change the reporting system of the assembly into a permit system, which can violate the freedom of assembly guaranteed by the Constitution and the law,” he said. He said, “I wonder why that someone who is a former prosecutor and knows the law better than anyone else is doing this.The Daegu Queer Festival was first held in 2009 and has been largely safely managed for 15 years. Mayor Hong stressed, “Don’t hurt the honor and pride of the Daegu police anymore.”
Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo encourages public officials officiating the Daegu Queer Culture Festival at the public transport zone in Jung-gu, Daegu on the morning of the 17th. random news
In a phone call with the Hankyoreh, a police officer said, “Queer holidays must be legally reported and legally accepted and protected. Even if a road occupation permit was not obtained, it cannot be a valid reason (for carrying out an administrative proxy). Looking at the special case of applying an administrative proxy operation under Article 74 of the Roads Act, if it is necessary to occupy a road repeatedly and consistently or to take the necessary measures quickly to ensure traffic and road safety, an operation can be carried out administrative deputy. out, but it’s not like that.” The Jung-gu branch of the Daegu Regional Headquarters of the National Public Officers Union, which includes officials from the Jung-gu Office, also issued a statement on the 16th, saying, “The Constitution’s judgment is and not the court. to block legally reported assemblies, and the police will also control traffic for the safety of citizens, but only Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo They are pampered by mongni, spitting out this words of discrimination and hatred . Daegu City continued to pressure the Jung-gu Office through the deputy district chief to immediately remove booths and other facilities after they were placed at the event location. The civil servants’ union strongly opposes force workers to move, and the public servants union will take the lead in stopping the enforcement of administrative vicarious enforcement.” Bae Jin-gyo, head of the Daegu Queer Culture Festival Organizing Committee, said, “When we met with an anachronistic administrative head that does not recognize diversity, we confirmed that the damage, such as violation of basic rights and threats to security, is being suffered by citizens are too big. “We will hold the city of Daegu legally responsible for obstructing the assembly and abusing administrative power.” “The statement from the public servants’ union was an unexpected comfort, and it gave me a lot of strength. It is a matter of great regret that public officials who are supposed to guarantee the safety of citizens through the dogma of Mayor Hong Joon-pyo are mobilize to the site of violation of fundamental rights.” On the other hand, Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo has posted on his Facebook page several times since the 8th that he opposes the queer festival. On the 15th, the 20th Division refused Daegu District Court Civil (Presiding Judge Kim Kwang-jin) request for an injunction to ban the assembly filed by the Dongseong-ro Merchants Association and the Daegu Christian Federation against the Organizing Committee for the 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival.
Information about the 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival. Provided by the Organizing Committee of the 15th Daegu Queer Culture Festival
Correspondent Kim Kyu-hyun gyuhyun@hani.co.kr
