'Pharmaceutical Company Employees Mobilized for Doctors' Rally' Complainant Investigated... Korean Medical Association "No Orders Given"

Joo Su-ho, the chairman of the Emergency Response Committee's Public Relations Committee of the Korea Medical Association (KMA), who filed a lawsuit against the author of an online post claiming that pharmaceutical company employees were mobilized for a doctors' rally, appeared at the police station.

Joo Suho, Chairman of the Emergency Response Committee Public Relations Committee of the Korean Medical Association, is appearing at the Cyber Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency on the morning of the 11th as a complainant.
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The Cyber Investigation Unit of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency summoned Chairman Joo on the morning of the 11th as a complainant to investigate the facts. Before the investigation, Chairman Joo told reporters, "Neither the Medical Association nor its affiliated organizations have ever instructed to mobilize pharmaceutical company employees."

He added, "According to the police's confirmation so far, the facts have not yet been proven," and claimed, "Even though doctors did not engage in such activities, the post on an anonymous site was spread as if it were true, damaging the reputation of all doctors."

Regarding the allegation that the KMA instructed the creation of a 'blacklist' of residents who did not participate in collective actions, he said, "There was no such instruction, so I have no knowledge of it."

The KMA Emergency Response Committee previously filed a defamation lawsuit under the Information and Communications Network Act against the author who posted a message titled "We are being forced to attend the doctors' counter-rally" on the anonymous online community 'Blind.'