Former Gyeonggi Deputy Governor Park Soo-young on Lee Jae-myung's 'Corporate Card Allegations': "Truly Pathetic"

"Meals and personal items are customarily bought with personal money"
"What’s good about Japanese shampoo?"

Park Soo-young, director of the Yeouido Research Institute and former first deputy governor of Gyeonggi Province, directly criticized Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, who is suspected of condoning the misuse of corporate credit cards by his wife Kim Hye-kyung during his tenure as governor of Gyeonggi Province, calling him "truly pathetic."

On the 24th, Park posted on his social media service (SNS), "I also lived in the official residence during my time as the first deputy governor of Gyeonggi Province," and pointed out, "I bought and used all meals and personal items there myself. That is the national rule (common sense)."

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A former Gyeonggi Province official, Mr. A, reported to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission that Lee, when he was governor, either ordered or condoned the misuse of corporate credit cards by his wife Kim and embezzled public funds himself. The commission has launched an investigation.

Park said, "It is abnormal to stock the official residence refrigerator with government money, but I thought it was even more abnormal to take those items to the private residence. Hearing that he sent a secretary all the way to Cheongdam-dong to buy Japanese shampoo, this goes beyond abnormality to a level of illness and is the height of pathetic behavior." The claim that "Lee sent a secretary to Cheongdam-dong to buy Japanese shampoo" comes from Mr. A, who uses this as evidence to assert Lee’s condoning of corporate credit card misuse.

Park added, "So, he buys beef with the corporate card, orders sushi and sandwiches, and even purchases ancestral ritual supplies for his late father with the corporate card, showing no sense of guilt at all," and said, "This is a behavior with absolutely no distinction between public and private matters. It’s really fortunate he was not elected president."

In another SNS post, he also questioned, "What’s so good about Japanese shampoo?"

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