[Summary] "Picking Red Means Greed" Gominjeong Shares Ruling Party Support Video... Opposition Says "Seems to Have Lost Self-Control"

"Earnestly Hoping and Hoping Again" Gominjeong Shares Ruling Party Support Video, Sparking Controversy
Opposition Criticizes, "Still Not Sober," "Doubts About Lawmaker's Qualifications"

Ko Min-jung, Member of the Democratic Party of Korea. [Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Midam] Democratic Party lawmaker Go Min-jung has sparked controversy by sharing a post on social networking services (SNS) implying that voting for the People Power Party is equivalent to voting for greed. In response, the People Power Party on the 24th criticized Go, saying she is "playing with colors," and urged her to apologize.

Park Ki-nyung, deputy spokesperson for the People Power Party, issued a statement that day, saying, "It is embarrassing even to talk about dignity to lawmaker Go, who seems unable to endure a day without being embroiled in controversy, but she has already gone beyond the level of doubting her qualifications as a member of the National Assembly and appears to have lost self-control."

He added, "It is absolutely unacceptable that a member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea is someone who irrationally divides the people as if those who vote for the People Power Party are greedy."

Deputy spokesperson Park further criticized, "On the contrary, when you hear the word greed, the ruling party comes to mind. Looking at the recent behavior of ruling party lawmakers, it seems insufficient to describe them as greed itself. Lawmaker Go, who repeatedly fails to restrain herself and even imposes frames on the people through 'inciting politics,' should reflect on herself. Resignation is the only answer."

Earlier, on the previous day, Go posted on her Facebook, along with the phrase "I earnestly hope and hope again," a 1 minute 29 second video appealing for support for the Democratic Party, presumed to have been made by ruling party supporters.

Facebook post by Go Min-jung, Democratic Party of Korea. Photo by Go Min-jung.

The video contained the message: "To you who have consecutively voted blue in the past several elections, but this time you say you will not vote blue, or to you who intend to punish blue sharply by abstaining, we understand. We also understand well that your disappointment, emptiness, anger, and expectations were so great that you are even more disappointed."

The video also included the content: "'I hate blue, I like red' ? are these the same thing? They are not. You are not someone who suits red. You have never once voted for greed. So, though it is shameless, we ask you to 'look at the person' in this election."

Some have criticized this, saying that the expression "voting for red (People Power Party) is voting for greed" is inappropriate. Since this by-election arose due to sexual harassment incidents involving the late Park Won-soon, former mayor of Seoul, and Oh Keo-don, former mayor of Busan, such expressions are considered unsuitable.

People Power Party lawmaker Heo Eun-ah pointed out on her Facebook, "Lawmaker Go, who stepped down from her spokesperson position after using the 'wordplay' of calling Park Won-soon's sexual crime victim a 'complainant,' is now playing 'color games' targeting the citizens of Seoul and Busan. Sharing a video that says just because you hate blue doesn't mean you like red, she seems still not to have come to her senses."

Go resigned from the spokesperson position of Park Young-sun, the Democratic Party's Seoul mayoral candidate's campaign, on the 18th after controversy arose over her referring to the sexual harassment victim of former Mayor Park as a 'complainant.'

Heo emphasized, "The Democratic Party and President Moon Jae-in have caused 'bright blue bruises' on the hearts of the citizens of Seoul, Busan, and the nation. What the people need now is the 'red medicine' to heal the wounds."

Fellow party member Cho Soo-jin also wrote on Facebook, "Lawmaker Go, who was Park's spokesperson, shared a video on her SNS saying 'voting for the People Power Party is voting for greed.' The Seoul mayoral by-election, which costs about 50 billion won of Seoul citizens' taxes, is due to Park's 'power-based sexual violence,'” she criticized.

She added, "Go is known to have been identified as one of the three leading 'secondary harm' perpetrators by calling the victim of power-based sexual violence a 'complainant,' a strange term, and left the campaign. Therefore, Go supporting Park outside the campaign proves that her 'expulsion from the campaign' was a 'staged show,'" she criticized.

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