People Power Party: "An Min-seok Blames Samsung for Short Track Biased Judging" Crossfire (Comprehensive)

Continued Criticism of Lawmaker Yoon Hee-sook and Others

Kwon Young-se, head of the People Power Party's election campaign headquarters, is delivering opening remarks at the election campaign headquarters meeting held at the National Assembly on the 7th. Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

[Asia Economy Reporter Jang Sehee] On the 9th, the People Power Party continued their offensive regarding the controversy over biased judging after Korean athletes competing in short track speed skating at the Beijing Winter Olympics were disqualified. This was in response to Democratic Party lawmaker Ahn Min-seok calling the incident "predictable" and mentioning Samsung's suspension of support.

In a CBS radio interview that morning, Rep. Ahn said that China's biased judging was expected and stated, "Why did this happen? I want to point to Samsung as a key reason," adding, "Samsung supported the Ice Skating Federation for 20 years since 1997, helping our athletes reach an international level, but after the political scandal, they withdrew their support from sports."

Kim Jae-hyun, the standing deputy spokesperson of the People Power Party's election campaign headquarters, commented toward Rep. Ahn, saying, "Are you now saying that the reason for the disadvantage caused by biased judging is because Samsung stopped its sponsorship, after you relentlessly criticized Samsung and cornered them?"

Deputy Spokesperson Kim emphasized, "When you were saying Samsung was at the core of corruption and injustice with all your might, and now you say biased judging happened because Samsung no longer supports sports?where does this inconsistent logic come from?"

He added, "If we follow Rep. Ahn's words, does that mean the biased judging outcome was caused by the ruling Democratic Party, including Rep. Ahn himself, who cornered Samsung?"

Former lawmaker Yoon Hee-sook sarcastically wrote on her Facebook, "So you’re saying our athletes’ performance declined because of Samsung, the judging isn’t biased but just accurately evaluating the decline in performance, and it’s not China’s problem but we should only blame Samsung? Is this talk or baby babble?"

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