So Su-jin "Supporting Geum Tae-seop's Party Withdrawal... Saying What You Want Is Happiness"

Rep. Jo Su-jin of the People Power Party Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Seulgi Kim] Former Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker Geum Tae-seop has left the party, and on the 21st, People Power Party lawmaker Jo Su-jin said, "I believe that being able to say what you want to say and live is definitely a happy thing."

On that day, Jo posted on her Facebook, saying, "The hardest thing for a person is probably acting with a mind and body that are not aligned."

She added, "There are still reasonable and excellent acquaintances within the Democratic Party of Korea," but "those people cannot voice their sense of problem. So I support former lawmaker Geum Tae-seop."

She continued, "On March 9th, I made a new start as an 'opposition politician' very suddenly and urgently. Things I had never thought about hit me like a tsunami. Sometimes it is confusing, sometimes painful," and added, "If it were not a powerless opposition, an opposition that can hardly do anything on its own, an opposition whose future is still uncertain, I wonder if it would have been different. Even though I know it is futile, I sometimes think about it."

Earlier, former lawmaker Geum posted on his Facebook that morning, saying he left the Democratic Party because "more than anything else, the arrogant attitude of dividing the people into factions, pitting them against each other, and bullying those with different opinions by labeling them as criminals or pro-Japanese collaborators is the biggest problem."

He criticized Democratic Party lawmakers, saying, "There are also forms of 'double standards' where they are lenient to their own side and harsh to the opposition, and 'flip-flopping' where they shamelessly change their previous claims without explanation or clarification."

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