Sim Sang-jung on Kim Gun-hee's 'Public Apology': "The Candidate Only Gets a Line in the News... Not Normal"

"Not Even a Candidate but Candidate's Spouse, Completely Flooding the Media... Causing Frowns"

Sim Sang-jung, the Justice Party's presidential candidate, is visiting Gocheok Neighborhood Market in Seoul on the 27th and holding a meeting with merchants.
[Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Seohyun] Sim Sang-jung, the presidential candidate of the Justice Party, criticized the fact that news about the candidate himself hardly appears while the wife of Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party candidate, Kim Geon-hee, who has been at the center of ongoing controversy, issued a public apology.

On the 27th, Sim appeared on Yonhap News TV's 'News 1st District' and said, "It is completely flooded in the media that not the candidate but the candidate's spouse is apologizing for corruption."

Regarding Kim's apology, he said, "A proper apology requires clearly identifying what was wrong, and the public will evaluate that part," but he also pointed at Yoon, saying, "The saying 'Self-cultivation leads to family regulation, state governance, and peace in the world' did not come out for no reason," and asked, "Does he have the right to talk about fairness to the people when his own family does not uphold it?"

He continued, "As ordinary citizens say, the current situation is that there is no one to vote for. The risks of the two major party candidates are mainly flooding the media, and that is the kind of presidential election that makes the public frown," criticizing the presidential election situation overshadowed by moral suspicions about the candidates and their families.

He added, "In our party, there is talk that Sim Sang-jung has no risks because even if you scrutinize her thoroughly, no dust comes out, so isn't having no risk itself a risk? That's why there is no coverage."

Sim also criticized President Moon Jae-in's special pardon of former President Park Geun-hye on the 24th, saying, "It is not right for the president to forgive first when the people have not forgiven."

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