Yoon Visits Gangwon Province... Highlights Moon Administration's Quarantine Failures

Meeting Small Business Owners in Gangneung and Sokcho

Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporters Hyunju Lee, Boryeong Geum] Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, will visit Gangwon Province for a 2-day, 1-night schedule. Looking at the itinerary, a strategy to highlight the Moon Jae-in administration's failure in COVID-19 quarantine by visiting the increasingly difficult livelihood sites is evident.

From this day until the 11th, Candidate Yoon will tour Gangneung, Sokcho, Chuncheon, and other areas in Gangwon to meet local small business owners and listen to their difficulties. The first schedule is to directly meet small business owners at Gangneung Central Market and hear about the hardships caused by COVID-19. Then, at Gangneung Coffee Street, he has prepared a meeting with young small business owners together with Party Leader Lee Jun-seok. At this meeting, they plan to review points to improve the effectiveness of support systems for young small business owners.

Candidate Yoon has continuously criticized the current government's COVID-19 measures to the extent of proposing a "50 trillion won compensation for losses of small business owners and self-employed."

The Yoon campaign headquarters explained, "With the recent resurgence of COVID-19 leading to strengthened quarantine guidelines, we plan to comfort market merchants whose spirits may be dampened and listen carefully to what practical support measures are needed." They added, "Gangwon Province faces many difficulties in regional development due to numerous regulations, and we will also gather meaningful opinions on achieving balanced regional development through deregulation."

Afterward, Candidate Yoon will meet with Jeon Jung-hyun and Byun Jung-woo, who subdued a knife attacker with their bare hands, reiterating the importance of safety and public security. Since his maternal family is known to be from Gangneung, Candidate Yoon refers to himself as the "Gangwon Province maternal grandson."

On the morning of the 11th, he will visit Daepo Port in Sokcho to hold an "On-site Meeting to Revitalize Gangwon Province," and then attend the Gangwon Province campaign launch ceremony in Chuncheon, focusing on winning the hearts of Gangwon residents.

Meanwhile, on the same morning, the People Power Party campaign headquarters held the first meeting of the COVID-19 Crisis Response Committee. They sharply criticized the Moon Jae-in administration's quarantine failures and presented related countermeasures. Kim Jong-in, the overall head of the campaign headquarters, criticized, "The Moon Jae-in government responded too complacently in the early stages."

Jung Ki-seok, chairman of the COVID-19 Crisis Response Committee (former director of the Korea Disease Control and Prevention Agency), pointed out, "From the third wave onward, political judgments rather than scientific ones interfered, leading to failure in suppressing the spread." He added, "We will propose scientific quarantine measures and develop policies that prevent economic and socially vulnerable groups from suffering damage."

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