With the South Korean Constitutional Court’s verdict on President Yoon Suk Yeol’s impeachment, social media posts have repeatedly shared collages of their wrongly claimed to portray judge Moon Hyung-Bae who visited North Korea. But the person in the picture is Kim Geun-Shik, a Korean academic and politician at a summit in Pyongyang in 2007.
“Moon, the head of the Constitutional Court, is a pro-North core who visited the North and fell down due to his honey trap,” a Korean Facebook post was posted on March 9, 2025.
It includes a collage showing a man meeting with former North Korean leader Kim Jong Il and taking a photo with a woman wearing a dress that is usually formally worn in the north.
The text above the image claims they show the moon, and the post accused him of being a “spy” who was “into North Korea’s honey trap.”
Screenshots of fake posts on Facebook were captured on March 12, 2025
Pro– Yoon social media users widely share the same collage on Facebook and claim compensation.
Moon is one of eight judges for whether to evacuate President Yoon, who has failed to impose martial law in December 2024.
Facebook post says the Moon (a frequently happening false information) visited the North with South Korean actor Moon Sung-Geun, a liberal activist (a archived link).
The image at the bottom of the collage shows the judge’s real profile photo, as well as the comments he is supposedly written on social media (a link to archive).
However, Remaining pictures There is a different person.
Wrong identity
Reverse image search Google The photos show the pictures depict Kim Geun-Shik, a North Korean studies professor at the Far East Research Institute at Kyungnam University, and a politician in the ruling People’s Power Party (archived link).
He told AFP on March 11 that the photos in the collage “do indeed indicate that he visited Pyongyang” and that the claim against the moon was “fake news.”
gold The claims were also refuted in a March 12 Facebook post, calling the photos he “during the 2007-Crean Summit” and realized the false post after AFP’s inquiry (archive link).
Kim visited the North Korean capital as part of his South Korean government entourage, from October 2-4, 2007 (a archived link), a summit between Kim Jong Il and then South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
Search Kim with photos on Google Geun-shik Posted October 19, 2007 on the online forum (archive link).
Screenshot of Kim’s forum post in October 2007
Separate keyword search Google The image in the upper left corner was found to be derived from a February 2022 interview with Chosun Ilbo and shook hands with him with former North leader (Archived Link).
Image screenshots released in the Chosun Ilbo report in February 2022
this The photo in the upper right corner shows Kim Jong Il bowing to Kim Jong Il during a toast during a reception at the top of the mountain, as shown in the Roh Moo-hyun Presidential Archives (archive link).
Screenshot of photos from President Roh Moo-Hyun’s profile
The page lists Kim Geun-Shik as one of the people in the photo, all shot in the reception hall in Pyongyang – but no mention of the moon hyung-bae.
AFP previously debunked the shaped image, claiming it could show the moon sharing child pornography and fake news reports about the allegations, as well as the changed images, showing him speaking in front of the Chinese flag.
