United Future Party: "Need Victim-Centered Approach, Not Yoon Mee-hyang-Centered"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Ji-eun] The United Future Party raised its voice, stating that regarding the 'Yoon Mi-hyang controversy,' "What is needed is victim-centeredness, not Yoon Mi-hyang-centeredness," and emphasized the importance of respecting the opinions of the comfort women grandmothers.

Hwang Gyu-hwan, deputy spokesperson of the United Future Party, said in a statement on the 19th, "What we must do in 2020 is to thoroughly reveal the past actions of the elected representative Yoon Mi-hyang and the Justice and Memory Solidarity, and to create a Republic of Korea that is solely for the grandmothers and can embrace their pain."

Deputy spokesperson Hwang quoted the 2004 critical statement by 33 comfort women victims in which they said, "You are villains who have fattened yourselves by selling comfort women grandmothers, who do not know when they will die, as beggars on the stage of history," adding, "Now, 16 years later, the grandmothers' statement at that time makes us reflect." There are also suspicions regarding the omission of grandmother Shim Mi-ja, who led the critical statement, from the list of comfort women victims at Namsan's 'Memory Site.'

Hwang said, "The controversy that began with the Justice and Memory Solidarity's donation usage details, the timing of Yoon's awareness of the comfort women agreement, and whether Yoon intervened in the payment of support funds has now reached a point where words like embezzlement of public funds, breach of trust, and overall poor accounting appear everywhere," and criticized, "While the public's attention was focused and their actions were seen as just, the voices of the grandmothers were ignored, and external criticism was labeled as pro-Japanese and unjust, turning themselves into injustice."

He added, "A week ago, Justice and Memory Solidarity shouted at reporters not to politically exploit the grandmothers, but who is creating frames and dividing sides? Now is precisely the time when victim-centeredness, not Yoon Mi-hyang-centeredness, is needed."

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