”Chun Doo-hwan bag 15,000 won” on sale on AliExpress (Korea)

Bags with a photo of former President Chun Doo-hwan printed on them are being sold on the Chinese cross-border e-commerce platform AliExpress, causing a stir.
In response, the May 18 Memorial Foundation sent a letter of protest to AliExpress and immediately began taking action.
On the 12th, the May 18 Memorial Foundation announced that it will launch an online shopping site called "AliExpress Korea."
"We have sent an official document to the company requesting them to stop selling products using the image of President Chung Du-hwan." Recently, AliExpress has been selling bags with the former president's photo on them.
The bag was sold with the words "South Face" on it, a parody of the American outdoor brand "The North Face."
The logo "Chung's Face" is printed on the front of the bag. The photo is of him taking office as president in September 1980 after using force to suppress the May 18 Democratization Movement.
It has been confirmed that this bag is manufactured and sold by a company in Singapore. The price is 15,300 won (about 1,500 yen), and the total number of sales has exceeded 10,000.
The company describes the product as a "casual, moderately sized, creative canvas bag."
Former President Chung was the leader of the 1979 "December 12 Military Coup" and the 1980 "May
He was found guilty of being a rebel leader and committing murder with the intent to commit civil war in connection with the bloody crackdown on the 18 Democratization Movement, and was sentenced to life imprisonment by the Supreme Court in 1997.
This ruling meant that he was given all former presidential privileges except for basic security under the Law on Treatment of Former Presidents.
He was stripped of his honorary status as a colony. He passed away in November 2021, but was not allowed to be buried in the national cemetery. The May 18 Memorial Foundation issued a statement of protest saying, "The use of Jeong Du-hwan's image
"The bag is an act of denigrating and degrading the history of democracy in the Republic of Korea, including the May 18th Uprising," he said. He also pointed out, "The bag is an act of denigrating and degrading the history of democracy in the Republic of Korea, including the May 18th Uprising, ...
"We ask that you ban the sale of products that use this image, just like the 'Kenkreuz' image," AliExpress said in a statement. In response to the letter of protest from the May 18 Memorial Foundation, the company has suspended sales of the bag in question.
The product is no longer available for search. AliExpress responded, "After careful consideration, we have decided that the product in question has been discontinued."