"With Wife Kim Hye-kyung Holding Hands"... Lee Jae-myung's Side Releases 'Ambulance CCTV'

Lee Jae-myung's Side Releases CCTV on the Same Day Amid Online Speculation

Democratic Party lawmaker Lee Hae-sik revealed on the 12th the scene of Kim Hye-kyung, spouse of Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung, being transported to the hospital after a fall accident. Photo by Lee Hae-sik

[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] The campaign team of Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, released a closed-circuit television (CCTV) capture showing the hospital transfer of Lee’s spouse, Kim Hye-kyung, in response to malicious interpretations circulating about her fall accident.

Lee Hae-sik, the spouse affairs director of the campaign committee, posted on his Facebook on the 12th, "Around 1:20 a.m. on the 9th, Mrs. Kim Hye-kyung, wife of candidate Lee Jae-myung, boarded a 119 ambulance with the candidate and was urgently transported to the hospital," and shared a photo of Kim boarding the ambulance.

Earlier, the candidate announced that his spouse Kim had a fall accident at their home in the early hours of the 9th and canceled all schedules to care for her. This led to malicious speculation about Kim’s accident circulating online.

Lee added, "Due to the angle of the CCTV installed inside the vehicle, candidate Lee Jae-myung’s face is not clearly visible," but "in another photo captured from the ambulance’s external CCTV footage, candidate Lee is seen looking tenderly at Kim Hye-kyung as she is loaded onto the stretcher and into the vehicle."

Democratic Party presidential candidate Lee Jae-myung standing in front of an ambulance. Photo by Lee Hae-sik.

Lee also said, "(The candidate) even put his hand inside the blanket to hold (his spouse’s) hand. How would he have felt transporting his wife, who had lost consciousness after repeated vomiting and diarrhea and suffered a laceration, in a 119 ambulance to the hospital?" He added, "Lee Jae-myung’s cancellation of his daily schedule to stay by his wife’s side was a perfectly reasonable act as a husband before being a presidential candidate."

Meanwhile, Lee and Seo Young-kyo, a Democratic Party lawmaker and chair of the National Assembly’s Public Administration and Security Committee, stated at a National Assembly press conference on the 11th, "Malicious, intentional, and illegal production and distribution of false manipulated information regarding Mrs. Kim’s injury are widespread," and vowed to respond strongly against the spread of false information.

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