Joeunhee: "Democratic Party Nominating Seoul Mayor Candidate Is Fourth Harm"

"If I Take Charge of Seoul City Administration... I Will Form a 'Truth Investigation TF'"

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] Cho Eun-hee, head of Seocho District Office who declared her candidacy for the Seoul mayoral by-election, criticized on the 15th the ruling by the court recognizing the sexual harassment charges against the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon, saying, "The Democratic Party nominating a candidate for Seoul mayor is the fourth victimization of the victim."

On the same day, Cho said on Facebook, "The Democratic Party should reverse its decision to nominate candidates for Seoul and Busan mayor by overturning President Moon Jae-in's original intention and amending the party's rules and regulations."

She added, "I welcome the judiciary's legal recognition of the victim's harm, which created an opportunity for the victim to restore daily life and opened the door to the truth," emphasizing, "It has been revealed that the Democratic Party, the people on the 6th floor of Seoul City Hall who have continuously inflicted secondary harm on the victim by calling her a complainant, and the pseudo-progressive pro-Democratic Party figures' barbaric acts of defending crime are wrong."

She continued, "The court also pointed out Seoul City's inadequate response as a cause of secondary harm," adding, "It confirmed that under both the former Mayor Park's administration and Acting Mayor Seo Jeong-hyeop's administration, there was no will to respond to sexual violence and it was only verbal."

Cho said, "Having served as Seoul City's Women and Family Policy Officer and co-representative of the Gender Equality Realization Federation, I have been contemplating and practicing to establish institutional systems to eradicate sexual harassment and sexual assault not only in Seoul City but also in workplaces," and stated, "If entrusted with Seoul City administration, I plan to form a task force to investigate the substantive truth of the former Mayor Park's case."

Cho added, "Furthermore, I will institutionalize strong measures to prevent recurrence by improving the Seocho-gu Me2 Direct Center system, which allows victims to report directly via the district head's mobile phone without going through complicated reporting procedures, and where the district head personally handles the case, adapting it suitably for Seoul City."

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