Lee Jun-seok towards Jeong Jin-seok: "Shaking all year long, what kind of attitude are you talking about?"

Facebook Post Before Boarding Return Flight After Visiting Ukraine
"When they criticize their representative, it's coaching; when the representative responds, it's internal sabotage."

Lee Jun-seok, the leader of the People Power Party, is speaking at the dinner meeting of the Korean Association held at the InterContinental Kyiv banquet hall in Ukraine on the 5th (local time). (Photo by Yonhap News)

[Asia Economy Reporter Kum Boryeong] Lee Jun-seok, the leader of the People Power Party, stated on the 9th, "After shaking things up all year long, what kind of manners are you talking about?" directed at Assemblyman Jeong Jin-seok.

Before boarding the flight back from his visit to Ukraine that day, Lee said on Facebook, "We endured and treated with respect the person who shouted in the room during the presidential election to oust the party leader, even appointing him as the head of the nomination management committee and giving him the authority to form all nomination committee members. Isn't that all the courtesy a party leader can offer?"

He continued, "If I have done wrong, criticize me harshly on the parts you think I am wrong, and if someone has ideas that need to be changed, point them out and change them. I refuse the shallow 5-to-5 false equivalence," adding, "If you shake things up and stay still, they shake things up more. If you react to the shaking, they say you have no manners. If you criticize the Democratic Party, they shoot you in the back; if they criticize their own leader, it's coaching; if the leader responds, it's internal sabotage."

Lee also said, "I have endured everything for a year and walked this path because the young generation who first looked to the conservative party hoping to change politics is dear to me. I hope they don’t have illusions," adding, "I even endured being called the mastermind behind the presidential election victory."

This is interpreted as criticism of Assemblyman Jeong, who the day before said to Lee, "Does it really take such great courage for a senior politician to say a word to the party leader?" and "Where does the arrogance come from that dismisses a senior politician’s concerns as nonsense?"

Lee and Jeong have been engaged in a verbal dispute since the 6th. On the 6th, Jeong publicly criticized Lee’s visit to Ukraine and his plan for the Innovation Committee on his Facebook page.

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