Lee Jun-seok "Yoon Supporters Send Text Bombs"... Direct Clash with Yoon's Side Kwon Seong-dong

Party-level investigation ordered over 'personal information leak'
Kwon Seong-dong: "This is the first time I'm hearing about it... I will check"

Lee Jun-seok, leader of the People Power Party. [Photo by Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] As the People Power Party undertakes a complete overhaul of its election campaign committee, it has been reported that Lee Jun-seok, the party leader, had a direct confrontation with Secretary-General Kwon Seong-dong over the leakage of his personal information. Secretary-General Kwon is considered a key close aide to presidential candidate Yoon Seok-yeol.

On the morning of the 3rd, during a closed-door Supreme Council meeting at the National Assembly, Leader Lee stated, "My mobile phone number has been disclosed in communities such as 'Yoon Sa-mo (People Who Love Yoon Seok-yeol)', which is composed of supporters of candidate Yoon, and I am receiving a flood of text messages," and instructed Secretary-General Kwon to conduct a party-level investigation into the matter.

Leader Lee also mentioned circumstances where some conservative YouTubers had obtained details of his parents' assets, reportedly insisting that "the criminals must be identified."

Some analysts suggest that Leader Lee's public targeting of Secretary-General Kwon, who oversees the party secretariat's operations, over the personal information leak may be intentional. There is suspicion that confidential documents Lee submitted to the party during past parliamentary candidate screenings might have been leaked from the party secretariat.

Secretary-General Kwon initially denied the allegations, saying, "This is the first time I am hearing about this. Yoon Sa-mo seems like an external organization of the party, so it would be difficult for the Secretary-General to know about such things," but later appeared to backtrack by stating, "I will check into it."

Meanwhile, the People Power Party is preparing for a full-scale reorganization of its election campaign committee. At the campaign committee meeting that day, Kim Jong-in, the party's overall election campaign committee chairman, stated, "To show the public that the campaign committee will make its best efforts in line with public sentiment, we will carry out a complete overhaul of the campaign committee."

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