Yoon Seok-yeol's "Abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality" Facebook Post... Heo Kyung-young Says "I'm the Original"

Heo Kyung-young "Abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, Establish the Ministry of Marriage"

Photo by Heo Kyung-young, National Revolutionary Party presidential candidate, Facebook screen capture.

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Midam] On the 7th, Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, posted a message on social networking services (SNS) calling for the "abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family," and Heo Kyung-young, the presidential candidate of the National Revolutionary Party, also posted a similar message seemingly following suit.

Heo posted a brief message on his Facebook around 7 p.m. that day, saying "Abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, establish the Ministry of Marriage." Later, Heo himself commented on the post, saying "Heo Kyung-young is the original."

Earlier, Yoon posted on his Facebook around 5 p.m. a post consisting of just seven characters saying "Abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family." The post received a great response, garnering nearly 2,000 comments in just over an hour. In response, Heo used the exact same background color as Yoon’s post to publish a message advocating for the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family.

Photo by Yoon Seok-yeol, screenshot from the People Power Party presidential candidate's Facebook page.

Meanwhile, Heo had previously proposed the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family and the establishment of the Ministry of Marriage in November last year. At that time, he stated on Facebook, "The existence of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is a discriminatory idea that perceives women as weak. Therefore, after abolishing the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family, I will establish the Ministry of Marriage to solve the much bigger problem of low birth rates."

He added, "South Korea spends the most budget on low birth rates in the world but has the lowest birth rate. In the past, I foresaw this situation and advocated for marriage and childbirth allowances," and said, "At that time, I was often called crazy, but now many people agree, saying 'Heo Kyung-young’s pledge was right,' and 'If only they had given money back then, the disastrous low birth rate crisis that could have led to the collapse of the country would not have occurred.'"

Furthermore, he reiterated the necessity of establishing the Ministry of Marriage, saying, "Now that the golden time has been missed once, just providing marriage and childbirth allowances is not enough."

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