Yoon Gun-young: "Oh Se-hoon Is Not a 'Rational Conservative,' Holds Low-Level Far-Right Views"

Yoon Geon-young, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, is questioning during the audit of the Ministry of Unification and others at the Foreign Affairs and Unification Committee held at the National Assembly on October 8 last year. [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim So-young] Yoon Gun-young, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, fiercely criticized Oh Se-hoon, the People Power Party's candidate for Seoul mayor, calling him "a candidate who pretends to be reasonable but harbors low-level far-right thinking to the core."

On the 28th, Yoon posted on his Facebook, titled "Candidate Oh Se-hoon still does not know what is wrong," expressing this criticism.

He pointed out, "Even though Kim Jong-in, the emergency committee chairman of the People Power Party, urged to 'refrain from extreme remarks,' he insists that his harsh words are just 'metaphors.' Just as words reveal a person's thoughts and level, metaphors also show the direction of those thoughts."

He also criticized, "How should we understand the fact that he publicly revealed that his mother is a dementia patient, and then the very next day used the expression 'severe dementia patient' again to criticize the president? This is not only an insult to the pain of 'dementia,' which his own mother is experiencing, but also a vulgar perception of the disease called 'dementia.'"

On the 28th, Oh Se-hoon, the People Power Party candidate for Seoul mayor, appealed for support at a focused campaign rally held at the East Gate Plaza of COEX in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
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Meanwhile, on the 27th, regarding Oh's statement at a campaign event in Seoul Forest, Seongdong-gu, saying, "He promised to be a president for jobs, but he failed to create jobs, failed to resolve the wealth gap, and the rise in housing prices is a great crime that will remain a shame forever," Yoon said, "If you have a basic understanding of democracy as a system and spirit, you cannot say such things."

He added, "Looking back to revive faint memories, even when he resigned 10 years ago over the issue of feeding children, it was the same. Oh Se-hoon is someone who thought only of his own politics rather than the changing times and the demands of public sentiment. Even then, he was not a 'rational conservative,'" he criticized.

He continued, "While talking about Seoul citizens, he secretly calculates his political goals and pretends to be reasonable, but he is a candidate who harbors low-level far-right thinking to the core. Can we entrust our lives to such a person?"

Earlier, in October 2019, Oh attended a rally led by Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon of Sarang Jeil Church and caused controversy by calling President Moon Jae-in's statement that "our economy is going in the right direction" "nonsense like the ramblings of a severe dementia patient." In response, on the 26th at a campaign event in Gangseo-gu, Seoul, Oh defended his past controversial remarks by saying, "Is the opposition party unable to say even that much?"

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