Yoon Gun-young: "No One Has Ever Called Moon to Pyeongsan After His Retirement"

'Denial of Reports on Convening Lawmakers from Cheong
"Public Sentiment Discussion in Pyeongsan? Fiction"'

Yoon Geon-young, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, repeatedly dismissed reports that "former President Moon Jae-in has summoned Democratic Party lawmakers from the Moon Jae-in administration's Blue House to a dinner at his private residence in Yangsan, Gyeongnam, on the 25th" as "fiction."

In an interview with MBC Radio's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focus' on the 10th, Yoon said, "The fact is that a few lawmakers thought, since it's summer and we haven't seen (former President Moon) for a while, we should visit him once," clarifying the situation.

Yoon Geon-young, Member of the Democratic Party of Korea./Photo by Kim Hyun-min kimhyun81@

Yoon explained that the report stating, "They decided to discuss public sentiment measures in Pyeongsan Village," was inaccurate, saying, "The fact is that a few lawmakers just wanted to study together," and that this was only shared in a group chat including some Democratic Party lawmakers, but was misreported.

He added, "Why would we have such a discussion in Pyeongsan? In short, this is 100% fake news," emphasizing, "I can say with certainty that since the president's retirement, he has never called anyone to Pyeongsan Village to meet."

Yoon said, "Either incomplete information was leaked, or the media received incomplete information and wrote fiction, but I consider it fiction," and stated, "beforehand, the media conducted an investigation and exchanged texts confirming 'this is not true' and 'nothing has been finalized yet,' yet the report was published."

Regarding why there was talk about studying public sentiment in the Seoul metropolitan area related to next year's general election, Yoon explained, "It is true that the Democratic Party is currently not doing well in the metropolitan area according to various indicators," adding, "President Yoon Seok-yeol is in a mess, and the People Power Party is in a pitiful state, so it is a painful situation that the Democratic Party is not fulfilling its role. Since reflection and introspection are necessary, we thought we should study this together."

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