[고정애의 시시각각] Jong-in Kim’s Gongjindan-JoongAng Ilbo

If you received the nutritional tonic gongjindan in the middle of last month, it would be just a New Year’s gift. But what if it came from someone who was cold? It could be interpreted differently.

The opposition candidate of Seoul Mayor Ahn Chul-soo, the National Assembly representative, chose the latter. Recently, he was asked, “Isn’t Kim Jong-in’s People’s Power Emergency Response Chairman frequently’dissed’?” He said, “I received it because Chairman Kim sent the Gongjindan to take care of his health.” Then he said, “I know that (Chairman Kim and I) have a future only when I win,” he said. “I have a lot of things to ask Chairman Kim to find a way to do that, and if I become a single candidate, Chairman Kim will help harder than anyone else.” said.

Chairman Kim didn’t just send it to CEO Ahn. The power of the people was also for the candidates of the Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, Na Gyeong-won, Cho Eun-hee, and Oh Shin-hwan, the Busan Mayor Park Hyeong-jun, Lee Eon-ju, and Park Seong-hun, and the former Democratic Party lawmakers Geum Tae-seop. It was said that it meant “Because they are opposition candidates, do your best.”

Among them, Ahn actively gave meaning. He would have determined that it was worth it and that it was necessary. Considering that it’s been a long, gritty relationship.

It is known that President Ahn rejected Chairman Kim’s advice, saying, “Be the first to be a member of the National Assembly” when entering the political world. In fact, there have been several bends since then. It is said that by the time of the 2016 general election, Chairman Kim held back Ahn’s withdrawal from the Democratic Party. After that, “going to the National Assembly Party led by Ahn Chul-soo was a much easier option, but I headed to the Democratic Party, which was the worst option” (“There is no eternal power”), and accepted the position of the chairman of the Emergency Response Committee. It was also Chairman Kim who persuaded lawmaker Park Young-seon at the time of the rumors of leaving the party to remain in the Democratic Party. It was the foundation on which the Democratic Party became the 1st party in the park. However, in Honam, where he elaborately nominated, he was completely defeated by Ahn. The two were also at odds in the 2017 presidential election phase. When Chairman Kim tried to enter the presidential election by playing the’Big Tent’, it was President Ahn who shunned him in a word. It is the observation around him that Chairman Kim has feelings.

In the midst of this, there was a case of Gongjindan. Chairman Kim said, “I’m glad that Ahn likes it more.”

Even so, it is difficult to say that the tension between the two has been resolved. The possibility of unification between Oh Se-hoon and Ahn Cheol-soo or Ahn Cheol-soo and Oh Se-hoon seems to be high, but unexpectedly, it is because of the question of preference, that is, if it is unified as Representative Ahn, it will be candidates no. Some even believe that this may not lead to unification. It was because Yun Seok-yeol was even interlocked with the former prosecutor general. Chairman Kim believes that “there is no third zone”, but CEO Ahn refers to “Cheol-seok (Ahn, Cheol-soo, Yoon Seok-yeol) solidarity.” Apart from whether former President Yoon responded well or not. Jung-jin, the power of the people who requested anonymity, said, “Chairman Kim recently told his person not to suggest a plan that President Ahn would not accept,” but said that the preference problem is a different dimension. At the time of the Seoul Mayor’s by-election in 2011, Democratic Party President Sohn Hak-gyu gave up the post and said, “I personally think that Candidate Won-soon Park should be free from the (Democratic Party) issue.”

On the 7th, I asked Chairman Kim, “What if I become unified as Representative Ahn?” and said, “In my view, the unification will be with Oh Se-hoon.” Looking at it, Chairman Kim never said the intention of’becoming representative Ahn’. In the political world, there are people who comment on Kim, “I emptied my heart, but did not emptied my heart.”

Editorial Writer Jeong-ae Jeong