Gominjeong Targets Lee Junseok, "Does the Whole World Look Like Manipulation?"

Lee Jun-seok "Early Voting Disruption Forces Circulated Photos of Ballot Manipulation" Claim Retracted

Democratic Party lawmaker Go Min-jung criticized Lee Jun-seok, the leader of the People Power Party, who claimed that "the forces obstructing early voting manipulated photos."
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[Asia Economy Reporter Yoon Seul-gi] Lee Jun-seok, leader of the People Power Party, retracted his claim that "the group obstructing early voting manipulated photos of the ballots," prompting Go Min-jung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, to raise her voice, asking, "Do you see the whole world as manipulated?"

On the 2nd, Go shared an article titled "Lee Jun-seok, who was outraged over ballot manipulation, found out it was an actual ballot" on her Facebook and made this statement.

She continued, "Not long ago, you loudly spoke with incorrect figures about the accumulated health insurance reserves. Have you corrected that yet?" criticizing Lee.

Photo by Lee Jun-seok, captured from the Facebook page of the People Power Party leader.

Earlier, on the 1st, Lee posted on his Facebook, "A group trying to obstruct early voting is spreading manipulated photos to incite anxiety over concerns of election fraud." He also shared photos of two ballots with stamps placed in different positions. In the photos, one ballot has the stamp only over the character '표' (pyo) printed on the ballot, while the other has the stamp over both characters '투표' (tupyo).

However, it was revealed that these photos were not manipulated but were actual ballots used at overseas voting stations. Lee eventually deleted the post. He corrected himself by sharing an article reporting that a voter who took photos of ballots at an overseas voting station in Australia and posted them on social media was reported to the prosecution for violating the Public Official Election Act, stating, "The ballots I posted earlier were overseas election ballots."

Meanwhile, Go and Lee recently engaged in a dispute over the current status of health insurance finances. On the 25th of last month, Go posted on Facebook, "Last year, the health insurance financial balance recorded a surplus of over 2.8 trillion won, and the accumulated reserves exceeded 20.2 trillion won." Lee responded by pointing out, "The accumulated health insurance reserves handed over to the Moon Jae-in administration at the end of the Park Geun-hye administration were 20.8 trillion won as of 2017. Please know what you are talking about."

In response, Go rebutted, "The 20.8 trillion won you mentioned is as of the end of 2016, and as of the end of April 2017, the accumulated health insurance reserves were 20.0367 trillion won," adding, "Before criticizing others, please reflect on your own words first."

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