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Welcome to the Real World of Extradition

Welcome to the Real World of Extradition

Following multi-jurisdictional prosecution efforts, the infamous child pornography site Welcome to Video was shut down, and a grand jury in D.C. indicted the site’s operator, Korean National Jong Woo Son. Based on the indictment, the U.S. government requested extradition of Son pursuant to the Korea Extradition Treaty. Recently, however, the Seoul High Court—the sole judicial organ empowered to hear and decide extradition cases in the Republic of Korea without right to appeal—turned down that request, generating public outcry that the Korean…

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