Yoon Geon-young: "Yoon's Mention of 'Solar Power Investigation' Shows Limits of Prosecutorial Regime"

"Renewable Energy Projects Are an Unavoidable Trend"

Regarding President Yoon Suk-yeol's order to conduct an inspection of all decision-makers involved in the solar power business, Yoon Geon-young, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea and former head of the National Planning Situation Room at the previous administration's Blue House, criticized it as a "limitation of the prosecution regime."

On the 16th, Yoon appeared on YTN's 'News King Park Ji-hoon' and said, "They are good at cracking down, but they have chosen the wrong targets to crack down on."

[Image source=Yonhap News]

He stated, "Renewable energy projects such as solar power are an inevitable trend. The whole world is moving in that direction," adding, "Of course, there can be issues on the ground while implementing solar power policies. For example, when implementing a free school meal policy, some schools might embezzle the budget and provide substandard meals to students, right? But that does not mean the free meal policy itself is problematic."

Yoon said, "It's the same with solar power," and added, "What the Yoon Suk-yeol administration is doing now is like burning down the whole house while trying to catch bedbugs."

Although the Presidential Office stated that "the results are not predetermined," Yoon criticized, "I think they are practicing a kind of 'politics of fear' here. They investigate, discipline, and threaten to catch people at the slightest provocation."

He said, "The problem is that if the government operates like this, no one will want to work in the future," adding, "Frontline public officials have quietly done their jobs, but they are harassing officials who worked hard on the previous administration's solar power and nuclear power projects. Then who will work in the future?"

Regarding the appointment of Kim Eun-kyung, a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies Law School, as the successor to Innovation Committee Chair Lee Rae-kyung, and the voices of doubt inside and outside the party about whether she can overcome fandoms and resolve factional conflicts, he said, "I think differently," adding, "The important thing is that no one within the Democratic Party disagrees that innovation is necessary now. Therefore, if we consider things from the public's perspective to regain their trust, a path will become clear."

On the criticism that full authority should be granted to the Innovation Committee, he said, "Representative Lee Jae-myung also said he would grant full authority, and we should not pre-judge the end of innovation," adding, "If we approach innovation from the perspective of the people, not Yeouido, I believe it can succeed."

This content was produced with the assistance of AI translation services.