Kwon Seong-dong: "Why Honor the Collaborator Jeong Yulseong... Gwangju Should Be Ashamed"

Kwon Seong-dong, People Power Party Lawmaker's Facebook
"Jeong Yul-seong Birthplace, Murals, Music Festival... Isn't It Idolization?"

Regarding the controversy over the establishment of the 'Jeong Yul-seong Historical Park,' Gwangju Mayor Kang Ki-jung's remark to "stop the controversy and leave it to historical evaluation" was criticized by Kwon Seong-dong, a member of the People Power Party, as a "fallacy that reverses cause and effect."

On the 24th, Kwon said on his Facebook, "Isn't it because Democratic Party politicians in the Gwangju area made a historical evaluation that the commemorative facility was promoted?"

Kwon Seong-dong, member of the People Power Party./Photo by Yoon Dong-joo doso7@

Kwon pointed out, "We should commemorate proud figures, so why honor collaborators of invasion?" He added, "There is Jeong Yul-seong Road in Yangnim-dong, and Jeong Yul-seong's birthplace is also preserved. At Neungju Elementary School, there is a Jeong Yul-seong mural, the Jeong Yul-seong Music Festival, and even the Jeong Yul-seong Children's Song Contest. The local broadcasting station even produced a documentary on Jeong Yul-seong."

He further criticized, "The fact that Gwangju City has long carried out commemorative projects related to Jeong Yul-seong does not justify these projects. Rather, it should be ashamed. The Democratic Party, which controls the local government and local council, made an ignorant historical evaluation of Jeong Yul-seong and promoted and supported various commemorative projects based on that."

He then questioned, "At this level, shouldn't it be considered an idolization of Jeong Yul-seong? Among the proud figures selected by Mayor Kang, is there anyone so highly revered?"

Regarding claims from some quarters that criticism of Jeong Yul-seong amounts to 'discrimination against Honam' or 'anti-China sentiment,' he said, "When politicians are criticized for wrong decisions, they should accept it. Why use the voters who elected them as a shield? How can commemorating a collaborator of invasion with taxpayers' money be linked to anti-China sentiment?"

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