Yoo Seung-min: "Difficult for University Students to Agree on '1 Million Won' Disaster Scholarship... Sorry for Candidate's Offensive Remarks"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] On the 9th, Yoo Seung-min, a member of the Future United Party who is campaigning nationwide, expressed his disagreement with Kim Jong-in, the party's general election committee chairman, who proposed providing a special disaster scholarship of 1 million won to university and graduate students.

On the 9th, at the campaign office of candidate Hong Cheol-ho in Gurrae-dong, Gimpo, Yoo said, "I would like to give 2 million or 3 million won, not just 1 million won, but this is a matter of principle."

Earlier that day, Chairman Kim held a press conference and proposed to the government the payment of a special disaster scholarship of 1 million won, stating, "We need to alleviate the pain of university students who are working hard at part-time jobs to help pay their tuition amid the difficult economic situation."

However, Yoo said, "Young people today are not only university and graduate students. There are also young people in that age group who are struggling and unable to attend school, and are currently unemployed," adding, "I find it difficult to agree with the method of categorizing and giving money specifically to university or graduate students."

Previously, Yoo also opposed the party's plan to provide emergency disaster relief funds to combat COVID-19, calling it "malicious populism that buys votes with the people's money."

Meanwhile, regarding the recent controversy over offensive remarks by Future United Party candidates, Yoo said, "As someone who is part of the Future United Party, I sincerely apologize to the public," adding, "It is very embarrassing that such offensive remarks by candidates have surfaced during this election, and it is a serious mistake that these issues were not thoroughly filtered during the candidate nomination process."

He continued, "Even looking at the polls near the end of the election, our Future United Party is by no means in a safe position," and said, "In the final stages of the election, we must appeal for every vote from the moderate and moderate conservative groups, so we need to refocus and dedicate ourselves to the election for the remaining period."

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