'Yunhaekgwan Kids' vs 'Lee Jun-seok Kids': Jang Ye-chan and Kim Yong-tae's Feud Draws in Lee Jun-seok

[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] 'Yoon Core Kids' vs. 'Lee Jun-seok Kids'. Former People Power Party (PPP) leader Lee Jun-seok was summoned amid a war of nerves between Jang Ye-chan, chairman of the Youth Foundation, and former PPP youth supreme council member Kim Yong-tae over the supreme council member seat.

On the afternoon of the 12th, former leader Lee posted a brief message on his Facebook, saying, "A really, really interesting person is creating Comedy Big League." This has been analyzed as a possible jab at Chairman Jang, who referred to former youth supreme council member Kim as an "Lee Jun-seok Kid" who does politics with a "mom card."

Earlier that day, Chairman Jang appeared on MBC Radio's "Kim Jong-bae's Focus" and targeted former youth supreme council member Kim, who is considering running for the general supreme council member position in this party convention, saying, "I really don't know where former leader Lee or the Lee Jun-seok Kids get the money to do politics," and "It's fascinating and enviable how the Lee Jun-seok Kids do politics with a mom card." Former youth supreme council member Kim was appointed as a spokesperson during Lee Jun-seok's term and is classified as one of the Lee Jun-seok Kids.

Chairman Jang stated, "The deposit for a general supreme council member candidate was set at 40 million won, and for a youth supreme council member candidate, it was 10 million won," adding, "The 30 million won difference is a huge gap, a 'neomsabyeok' (an insurmountable wall), for ordinary people in their 20s and 30s who do politics with their own money, not a mom card." He mocked former leader Lee and former youth supreme council member Kim for doing politics with the help of wealthy parents, unlike ordinary youth.

Former Lee Jun-seok, former leader of the People Power Party. [Image source=Yonhap News]

Former supreme council member Kim immediately counterattacked. On the same day, he posted on his Facebook, "'Pretending to be frugal just because you work in politics or public domains like news is outdated,' said self-proclaimed 'youth' Chairman Jang in his past social media posts," adding, "'Yoon Core Kids' Chairman Jang talking about money to me is absurd."

Kim continued, "Chairman Jang, who is famous among many political reporters for boasting about money and family background, asking where I get money to do politics makes not only me but also journalists genuinely laugh," and pointed out, "All the times he boasted about luxury cars and watches on his past Facebook must have been thanks to the 'mom card,' not his own ability."

Recently, former leader Lee has been making his presence felt by mentioning issues related to the party convention on social media. On the 10th, he directly criticized an anonymous pro-Yoon (Seok-yeol) faction lawmaker who said that former lawmaker Na Kyung-won, who resigned as vice-chair of the Low Birthrate and Aging Society Committee, could ally with the non-Yoon (Seok-yeol) faction in the party leader election.

Former leader Lee called them "anonymous Samsung-ga-no (三姓家奴)" and said, "People who only have 'Kim Jang (the alliance of Kim Gi-hyeon and Jang Je-won)' in their heads cannot show their faces and only give anonymous interviews." Samsung-ga-no is a derogatory term meaning 'a slave with three surnames,' referring to the Three Kingdoms general L? Bu, who served three different fathers with different surnames.

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