Choo Mi-ae on Yoon Seok-yeol and Lee Jun-seok's Dramatic Reconciliation: "A Showmanship of Tricks Revealing the Bottom"

Yoon and Lee Dramatically Reconcile with 'One Team Hug' at Party Meeting
Choo Mi-ae: "Just Repeating a Love Show of Push and Pull"

Former Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae. / Photo by Dongju Yoon doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Midam] Former Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae harshly criticized the dramatic reconciliation on the 7th between Lee Jun-seok, the leader of the People Power Party who had been experiencing internal strife, and Yoon Seok-yeol, the party's presidential candidate, saying, "It will be difficult for the public to accept this as anything more than a showmanship of cunning tricks laid bare to the bottom."

In a post on her Facebook on the same day, former Minister Choo said, "Leader Lee has taken the wheel of hypocrisy. Behind the laughter of the four, a sinister collusion can be seen."

The four people mentioned by former Minister Choo appear to be Leader Lee, candidate Yoon, floor leader Kim Ki-hyun, and Secretary-General and Election Committee Head Kwon Young-se. They traveled in an Ioniq electric car driven by Leader Lee himself to pay respects to firefighters who died in a fire at a construction site in Pyeongtaek, Gyeonggi Province.

Former Minister Choo criticized, "Lee Jun-seok's silk pouch was an empty 'gamani' (straw sack)," adding, "The elder brother who cannot even tolerate the cunning trick of 'staying still' sulked and then embraced again, repeating only the love show of 'mildang' (push and pull)."

She continued, "If the subway greeting was a 'practice problem,' then they succeeded in turning the presidential election into a comic show," and pointed out, "Instead of a practice problem, they should have been made to reflect painfully. They should have been demanded to take actions to correct their mistakes." The 'subway greeting' is known to be one of the three 'practice problems' proposed by Leader Lee to the election committee.

Former Minister Choo posted again on Facebook, continuing her criticism of candidate Yoon. Posting a photo of Yoon, she said, "'The righteous hero' was an illusion. He was an avatar of hypocrisy," and pointed out, "Just as a single pine tree wraps its whole body with wire and lowers and bends itself without boasting to gain the heart of a noble person, dignity does not arise without long hours of endurance."

Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, and Lee Jun-seok, the party leader, who reached a sudden reconciliation after extreme confrontation, are embracing at the party meeting held at the National Assembly on the evening of the 6th.
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Earlier, candidate Yoon and Leader Lee abruptly reconciled their long-standing conflict at a party caucus meeting the day before and made a sudden turn to become a 'one team.' It was 16 days after Leader Lee resigned from the election committee on the 21st of last month.

The People Power Party held a caucus meeting to push for a resolution urging Leader Lee to resign, but withdrew it following the last-minute attendance of Leader Lee and candidate Yoon at the meeting.

After reconciling with candidate Yoon, Leader Lee said, "I understand that the candidate has a schedule to go to Pyeongtaek right after the caucus meeting today," and asked, "As the leader of the People Power Party and as someone with a taxi driver's license, may I serve the candidate as a passenger?"

In response, candidate Yoon stood up from his seat and gave a thumbs-up. As the lawmakers applauded and cheered in unison, Leader Lee laughed and said, "It's this easy to say."

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