Ha Tae-kyung: "Min Kyung-wook's 'Follow the Party' is a Deliberate Manipulation Result"

Ha Tae-kyung, a member of the United Future Party, held a press conference at the National Assembly Communication Office on the 31st of last month, criticizing former lawmaker Min Kyung-wook's claim that the April 15 general election vote count was manipulated due to Chinese hacker involvement.
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[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Bong-ju] On the 11th, Ha Tae-kyung, a member of the Future United Party, claimed that former lawmaker Min Kyung-wook's 'Follow the Party,' which alleges election fraud in the April 15 general election, is a "second Produce 101 manipulation incident."

Ha held a press conference at the National Assembly Communication Office on the same day and said, "If we apply the formula that former lawmaker Min claims as it is, only four letters in 'Follow the Party' match, and the rest cannot come out."

According to Ha, a citizen converted numbers into alphabet letters according to the formula presented by former lawmaker Min, and only four letters 'F,' 'H,' 'E,' and 'A' matched among 'Follow the Party.'

According to Ha, computer communication consists only of numbers, so ASCII code values are obtained, and ASCII code creates a total of 128 codes with a 7-bit binary combination. Characters converted to ASCII code include special symbols and alphabets.

The gist of Ha's claim is that the alphabets for composing 'Follow the Party' are distributed between numbers 100 to 121, and former lawmaker Min manipulated calculations to match this.

Ha said, "Currently, the media's interest in former lawmaker Min's claims has decreased, so I hesitated because if I hold this press conference, it would increase attention and that might help the other side more," adding, "However, I thought I could not avoid it after knowing the truth."

He also added, "What is aggravating about former lawmaker Min is that he passes this off as involving Chinese hackers," and said, "It is problematic that he made a leap by saying Chinese hackers were involved."

He continued, "There is a strong anti-China sentiment in Korean society now, but to incite people, they maliciously and forcibly brought in China's involvement," saying, "In short, they stirred up trouble."

Ha emphasized, "I do not want to believe that former lawmaker Min staged a nationwide scam," and said, "I think former lawmaker Min was deceived and is still being deceived. If you think of him as a puppet of a swindler, now is the time to apologize."

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