Kim Geon-hee: "Cho Kuk's daughter met the wrong parents... Husband was betrayed by Moon administration"

KBS Releases New Transcript of Kim Geon-hee
Includes Kim Geon-hee's Views on 'Cho Kuk Incident' and 'Factional Logic'

An additional transcript of a conversation between Kim Geon-hee, spouse of Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, and Lee Myung-soo, a reporter from 'Seoul Voice,' has been released.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] An additional transcript of a conversation between Kim Geon-hee, spouse of Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, and Lee Myung-soo, a reporter from the YouTube media outlet 'Seoul's Voice,' has been released. The disclosed transcript contains Kim's views on the prosecution's investigation of former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk and related matters.

According to the recording released by KBS on the 25th, Kim expressed her views on the so-called 'Cho Kuk incident' for about 30 minutes at the Cobana Contents office in Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, on August 30 last year.

Kim said, "Objectively, I think Minister Cho really did not speak well. He could have just stepped down with a clear conscience and come out anytime, and his daughter is perfectly fine. When I see his daughter suffering like that, it makes me upset. What wrong did she (Cho's daughter, Cho Mo) do? She just had the misfortune of having the wrong parents. At first, I thought she had good parents. But it turned out to be the opposite. What kind of thing is that to do to children?"

Kim also said, "My husband almost died. He tried to save this (Moon Jae-in) administration but was betrayed and ended up like this," adding, "Ordinary people don't know that, so stories like 'Yoon Seok-yeol completely destroyed his family and stripped them bare' come out. That's not true. In this world, how can you strip someone else's family bare?"

She also expressed her opinion on 'camp logic.' Kim said, "Politics is disgusting. Camp logic, where only your side is right, must disappear quickly," and added, "Anyway, I think we need to get rid of things like being progressive or conservative. The country has really deteriorated a lot now."

At that time, it is known that reporter Lee gave a lecture on media promotion and image strategy to people related to Yoon's campaign at the office at Kim's request.

Earlier, in the '7-hour call' released by the YouTube-based media outlet Open Sympathy TV, Kim asked reporter Lee on July 21 last year, "Could you give a lecture on those things when forming the campaign?" KBS explained that this transcript is a recording of the promotional lecture at that time, not a phone call.

On that day, reporter Lee claimed to have received an envelope containing 1.05 million won from Kim after the lecture. In the recording, Kim said, "Anyway, our meeting is a secret," and added, "Your sister might give (the money). The sister is giving it to her younger sibling. Don't do that. Got it?"

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