Biography
Mr. Kim Guk-Nam is a Korean Jeju Naval Base resister. Refusal to pay fines for resistance to naval base construction.
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.
Identifiable photograph and executed custody dates review October 13, 2026: The original January 2016 report explicitly captions the photograph Kim Guk-Nam, credit Yoonmadam, and documents actual January 27 self-surrender. The native 300-by-200 image was visually inspected and hash-verified, with no reconstruction or retouching. Issue180 page3 corroborates admission but only predicts March17 release. The later original issue181 page6 explicitly establishes actual March15 release and reports49 days served. Both complete relevant pages were rendered and viewed. The incorrect January26 admission/March16 discharge are corrected; a separate earlier arrest and sentencing day remain unknown. The documented49-day total replaces50, without manufacturing dates by counting backwards.
