Lee Jae-myung Criticizes Yoon: "Can a Farmer Just Drink Without Knowing How to Farm?"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] On the 24th, Lee Jae-myung, the presidential candidate of the Democratic Party of Korea, targeted Yoon Seok-yeol, the presidential candidate of the People Power Party, saying, "No matter how good the field is, if the farmer doesn't know how to farm, is lazy and irresponsible, and just drinks and plays all the time, can farming be done?"

On the 24th, during a campaign at Youth Street in Chungju City, Lee compared Yoon to a 'farmer' and governance and politics to 'farming,' attacking Yoon. Introduced as the 'Son-in-law of Chungcheong,' he said, "They say if the wife is beautiful, the son-in-law bows to the mother-in-law's stake, and I feel exactly that way," emphasizing, "I will install boilers instead of THAAD and create jobs in my mother-in-law's house, along with balanced development and rural basic income, to build a country where everyone lives well."

He criticized Yoon's 'preemptive strike theory' and the deployment of THAAD in Chungcheong while reiterating the importance of peace. He also mentioned, "Although it is a matter of a foreign country on the opposite side of the globe, the stock market is falling due to Russia's invasion of Ukraine," adding, "The global supply chain and international economic order are being damaged, putting Korea's economic development at risk. This is the impact of war and instability on the economy. We must protect peace."

Regarding the People Power Party, he said, "The impeachment is over, but that political group that withdrew the impeachment just changed its name and got another chance," stressing, "We must stop a worse regime change and achieve a true political change."

Heading to Sancheok-myeon, Chungju, the hometown of his wife Kim Hye-kyung, Lee sang 'Ulgoneun Bakdaljae' in front of village residents and raised his offensive level against Yoon by saying, "I don't drink much in room salons, so I'm not good at singing."

Earlier, at the campaign held at Youth Street in Chungju, Jin Sung-jun, co-head of the Democratic Party's joint situation room, criticized Yoon's uppercut ceremony, saying, "Someone told me that prosecutors go to room salons, drink, and if their (singing) scores come out well, they do it. Let's send the drinking candidate to Ramada and the hardworking candidate to the Blue House."

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