the prosecutor and judges should be fined instead...what's wrong with breaking quarantine to visit dying father...fuck the laws oIo!

[kaninabuchaojibye]

Woman fined for breaking quarantine to visit dying father
m.koreatimes.co.kr
By Bahk Eun-ji

A 33-year-old woman was found guilty of breaking self-quarantine, Monday, but a local court handed down a lighter-than-usual sentence as she did so to visit her dying father.

The Cheongju District Court fined the woman 1.5 million won ($1,332).

The woman was required to self-isolate for two weeks upon her arrival from the United States, April 24 last year, but she left her home the next day to visit a hospital where her father had been hospitalized due to cancer, after she heard he was in critical condition. She had tested negative when she took a coronavirus test at the airport.

The next day, Cheongju City Government filed a complaint with the police against the woman for violating the self-isolation rule, after confirming the violation through a GPS tracking system.

"(Knowing that she did so to meet her father) we felt bad to file the complaint, but we had to do so due to regulations," an official of the Cheongju Public Health Center said.

The father died six days after her visit.

While the maximum punishment for violating self-quarantine is a fine of up to 10 million won or a prison term of up to a year, the court decided upon leniency.

"It was not a light crime to break the self-quarantine rule considering the seriousness of the COVID-19 situation," the court said in the ruling. "But we took into consideration the reason for her violation as she tried to meet her father for the last time, and her violation did not spread the virus."

 

[Leongsam]

All this fuss over a mild illness. It's really ridiculous.

 

[tanwahtiu]

One swallow doesn't mean Spring 春天到 is coming....

 

[sweetiepie]

KNN my uncle think if she is in sg and even without quarantine she might not get to see her dying father due to the old farts working at the visitor leegistration counter KNN

 

[laksaboy]

In a totalitarian shithole, the letter of the law supersedes the spirit of the law.

To express this in Chinese words: learn the difference between 法治 and 法制.
'Rule of law' vs 'Ruled by law', there is a subtle but important difference.

It might be a concept that's too cheem for daft and docile Sinkies, here's a crash course in the form of an article (Chinese):

「法制」不是「法治」
https://opinion.udn.com/opinion/story/6777/651958