Yeo: "Yoon Seok-yeol, Elastic Vision? Explain the Anisometropia Military Service Evasion Allegations"

Call for Disclosure of Vision Test Data and Public Explanation

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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Jun-yi] The Democratic Party of Korea has targeted Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, over allegations of anisometropia and urged him to immediately disclose his vision test records and explain to the public.

On the 20th, Mo Jong-hwa, Co-Chair of the Defense Policy Committee of the Peace and Prosperity Committee under the Democratic Party's Election Countermeasures Committee, held a press conference at the Democratic Party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul, stating, "Yoon’s rubber-band vision that worsens only when necessary?Candidate Yoon should immediately disclose his vision test records and clarify the suspicions of anisometropia-related military service evasion to the public."

Mo said, "According to the tip revealed by Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Byung-joo on the 7th, the 1994 physical examination for appointment as a prosecutor showed a vision difference between the left eye at 0.7 and the right eye at 0.5, narrowing the difference to 0.2. Furthermore, in the 2002 physical examination for reappointment as a prosecutor after practicing as a lawyer, the left eye was 0.9 and the right eye 0.6, with a vision difference of only 0.3."

He continued, "Since the refractive power was measured manually at that time, it raises further doubts about Candidate Yoon’s vision test records," and pointed out, "His vision, which was poor when he enlisted in the military, improved during the examinations for appointment and reappointment."

He also said, "The medical certificate issued in early June 2019 under the name of Han Seung-han, director of the ophthalmology hospital at Yonsei Medical Center, showed a difference of 0.85 with the left eye at 1.0 and the right eye at 0.15, but I recall it did not meet the military exemption criterion of a difference of 3 diopters or more. It is said that the vision difference changed to 0.7 in the vision test records submitted only to former lawmaker Oh Shin-hwan during the confirmation hearing for the Prosecutor General appointment."

He emphasized, "What exactly is Yoon Seok-yeol candidate’s true vision? Is Candidate Yoon’s vision a rubber-band vision that can change whenever necessary?"

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