Biography
Kim Eun-Hye is a Korean Jeju Naval Base resister. Multiple charges related to protests opposing the naval base.
Since 2007, the South Korean government has been constructing a major naval base on Gangjeong village, Jeju Island — a UNESCO biosphere reserve and South Korea's southernmost island. The base, designed to host U.S. and South Korean Aegis destroyers and a port-of-call for U.S. nuclear-powered aircraft carriers, is widely understood as a forward-deployment site for the U.S. military's posture against China. Local Gangjeong residents and Korean peace activists have maintained continuous nonviolent resistance at the construction gates since 2010; hundreds have been arrested and dozens have served Korean prison sentences for trespass, obstruction, and civil disobedience.
The October 2013 Gangjeong newsletter confirms custody directly from the October 8 court hearing after an eight-month sentence in the naval-base protest prosecution, with Jeju prisoner number 12. The existing corrected court date is corroborated; no additional admission, release or eight months actually served is inferred. Gangjeong Village Story, October 2013, original PDF page 2. Source: https://savejejunow.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Gangjeong-Village-Story_Oct-2013.pdf#page=2
Executed sentencing day review October 13, 2026: Original Gangjeong Village Story, October2013 page2, rendered and visually inspected, explicitly reports October8 court sentencing to eight months and immediate custody. The missing sentencing day is now added. Existing admission and later release remain unchanged; no later discharge is inferred from the original sentence. The original account also individually captions the already photographed defendant, so no replacement photo is needed.
