O Seong-gyu, Former Seoul City Secretary-General, Appears at Police Today... "Claims of Aiding Sexual Harassment Are Political Slander"

▲ Oh Seong-gyu, former Secretary to the Seoul Mayor

[Asia Economy Reporter Lee Gwan-ju] Oh Seong-gyu, former chief secretary to the Seoul mayor, who was accused of aiding and abetting sexual harassment by the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, appeared at the police station on the 17th.

The Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency summoned Oh in the morning as a suspect in aiding and abetting sexual harassment by abuse of authority and is currently investigating him.

Earlier, on the 13th, the police also summoned Kim Joo-myung, director of the Seoul Lifelong Education Promotion Institute (former chief secretary to the Seoul mayor), for investigation on the same charges.

The police are reportedly focusing on whether Oh, while serving as chief secretary, had ever heard complaints from a former secretary who was a victim of sexual harassment by former Mayor Park.

Oh, who comes from a civic group background, served as chief secretary to the Seoul mayor from 2018 until this year. The YouTube channel 'Garoseuro Research Institute' has previously reported current and former deputy mayors and chief secretaries, including Acting Mayor Seo Jeong-hyeop (Administrative Deputy Mayor), to the police.

In a statement sent to the media on the day, former Chief Secretary Oh claimed, "I have never received any complaints related to this case or requests for personnel changes from the accuser, nor have I been informed of such complaints by any third party," adding, "None of the approximately 20 secretariat staff members who were questioned by the police as witnesses, after being named as aiding and abetting sexual harassment by the accuser's side, have ever reported hearing such complaints."

He further stated, I strongly suspect that the reason the accusers are making such unreasonable claims is that they are maliciously exploiting the fact that there is no one to dispute the accuser's assertions, and emphasized that claims that Seoul city officials aided and abetted or engaged in organizational cover-up are baseless political slander and attacks.

Former Chief Secretary Oh added, "Forcing silence with the totalitarian logic that ignorance and silence constitute secondary harm is an act of character assassination against those who worked with Mayor Park Won-soon in city administration and tramples on the honor of Seoul."

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