Hong Joon-pyo "Kim Gun-hee's 7-hour call 'broadcast ban injunction'? ... Only absurd measures abound"

"Do You Think You Can Block Free Speech Even Though It's Not an Authoritarian Era?"
"Turning a Happening into a Injunction Only Creates National Attention"

[Asia Economy Reporter Naju-seok] On the 14th, Hong Jun-pyo, a member of the People Power Party, raised concerns about the election campaign committee's response to the 7-hour phone call involving Yoon Seok-yeol candidate's wife, Kim Geon-hee. He stated that the committee's series of responses are dragging candidate Yoon into a quagmire.

Through social media (SNS) on the same day, Rep. Hong said, "This sudden incident, which should have been ignored and dismissed as a mere happening, was turned into a matter of national interest by filing a provisional injunction. Do you think it is possible to block the flow of information now, when it is not even an authoritarian era?" He criticized, "Only absurd countermeasures are rampant."

He added, "In our party, politicians who prematurely come from investigative agencies are a big problem, and they keep creating controversies." He also said, "Appearing as a panel on conservative TV channels and spouting nonsense with shallow legal knowledge does not help candidate Yoon at all."

Rep. Hong criticized, "They should stop. They are only dragging candidate Yoon into the quagmire."

Earlier, the People Power Party had filed a request for a broadcast injunction at the Seoul Western District Court regarding the broadcast of the phone call between Kim and a reporter from Seoul Voice on MBC. The Seoul Western District Court began the hearing on the injunction request that morning.

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