[아침신문솎아보기] Is President Moon Jae-in’s Lame Duck Media Analysis Really Correct?

The word’lame duck’ appears in daily newspapers.

When Shin Hyun-soo, chief of the Blue House Min Jeong-jeong’s’death wave’, was settled, the’prosecution’s theory of speed regulation of reform’ was associated with Lame Duck. On the 24th, in the National Assembly, a rumor broke out over whether President Moon Jae-in requested the speed control of prosecution reform, and some media criticized President Moon’s “speed control theory,” saying that the ruling party’s hardline party rejected it and strongly promoted prosecution reform.

On the 22nd, Justice Minister Park Bum-gye, who attended the National Assembly Legislative Judicial Committee, said that President Moon had told him two things. Investigation rights reform was settled, and the ability to respond to criminal investigations and the ability to respond to anti-corruption were unable to retreat.

In the media, the remarks of’the settlement of reforms in the right of investigation’, known in the form of Minister Park’s message, were viewed as’the theory of speed regulation of the prosecution reform’. It is interpreted that the government can hope for the theory of speed regulation of prosecution reform ahead of the re-election in April, since the ruling party was feeling the burden of the speed-transmission of the prosecution reform after the conflict between Chu Miae and Yoon Seok-yeol last year.

The ruling party started to evolve. On the 24th, chief spokesman of the Democratic Party, Choi In-ho, said, “It is not true at all that there is a disagreement between the party and the party office.” “At the end of February or early March, a bill is scheduled to be initiated by the special committee for reform of the prosecution. I said.

Democratic Party lawmaker Park Joo-min said, “Is that really speed control? It doesn’t appear to be,” said Democratic Party lawmaker Hwang Unha, “I heard that the President’s speech is a routine request, not about speed control,” respectively, in a radio interview. In particular, Rep. Hwang added, “It seems like an interpretation that reflects the wishes of the prosecution or conservative media.”

On the 25th, the JoongAng Ilbo selected the title of the article on the front page as “The Lame Duck Controversy Growing Until the New Year’s War of the Party Office”. The opposition party has consistently insisted on lame duck. People’s Power Spokesman Choi Hyung-du said, “I am worried that the appearances of passport personnel who reject the president’s theory of speed control are unfortunate.”

President Yoo Young-min, who attended the National Assembly Steering Committee on the 24th, said at the end of the meeting regarding the theory of speed control, “I confirmed it when it was in office. (President) did not express the expression of speed control.” However, the JoongAng Ilbo interpreted, “It was not enough to calm the controversy,” and “there was a diagnosis that the control of the Blue House was clearly reduced.”

Prior to this incident, the incident connected with Lame Duck was a wave of appreciation by Shin Hyun-soo, chief executive officer Min Jeong. Since the announcement of the prosecutor-level personnel of the Ministry of Justice on the 7th, Chief Shin expressed his gratitude to the President several times, and the case was held by the President. There were many interpretations, including the allegation that Park had enforced the prosecution’s greetings without consultation with Chief Min Jeong, the allegation that he received the post-hoc review of President Moon, and the allegation that Shin requested the supervision of Minister Park.

In response, Secretary General Yoo Young-min said in the National Assembly’s business report on the 24th that “the approval of the personnel plan was made before the announcement,” and “electronic approval is usually done after (announcement).”

In addition, while the aftershocks of sadness continued, Mr. Yoo replied, “((related to the new chief resignation) various interpretations are possible, but they could be repaired.”

With this, chief Shin’s term’anti-myeong’ came out, and in line with the situation in the second half of the regime, it was argued that it was a lame duck.

At the National Assembly on the 24th, Congressman Cho Su-jin said, “Six years ago, Rep. Moon Jae-in was a soybean flour family in the’Chief Kim Young-han protest wave’, and criticized that he created a field of national discipline.” He said, “Isn’t it made the national discipline into a large field?”

Earlier, Kim Seong-won, senior vice president of the People’s Forces, said, “The’lame duck’ of the Moon administration was revealed intact due to the (Senior Shin) resignation wave.” Secretary Yoo drew a line saying, “It is not an objection.”

The JoongAng Ilbo denied the interpretation that the conflict at the end of the term of office had already begun due to the appearance that the President Young (令) did not work at the time of the last one year of the presidential term, in the editorial “Pushing the Severe Crime Investigation Office, inviting lame duck.” It became difficult to do.”

It takes two points to conclude that it is a lame duck. The first is President Moon’s approval rating. Looking at the trend of recent polls, the presidential approval rate is generally maintained at around 40%, the highest among all presidents. Negative evaluation of state affairs has also been reduced. It is interpreted that there are factors, such as increased expectations for vaccination starting on the 26th.

Second, it is because both the controversy over the new chief protest and the theory of speed control are issues of reform of the prosecution. The conflict between the current government and the prosecution has been around for a long time. There was a similar situation before the intense Chu-yoon conflict. In fact, some public officials have been controversial about anti-government since the beginning of the regime.

The Chosun Ilbo presented the recent controversial issues and argued that it was the basis of the’Lame Duck’.

The Chosun Ilbo’s society revolted, saying, “If you break the law, you will be punished” In the article titled, “As the Moon Jae-in administration approaches the end of its term of office, disagreements between the Party and the Party are in earnest on each of the major policy issues.” “New Airport Special Act” was promoted, and Democratic Party President Lee Nak-yeon and Deputy Prime Minister Hong Nam-ki conflicted with the issue of the 4th disaster support fund.”

The newspaper said, “In particular, there are signs of a’lame duck’, such as expressing confusion over the possibility that public officials will be punished after a legal issue in the process of policy promotion with the’Wolseong nuclear power plant economic evaluation manipulation’ incident. Ahead of the monthly by-election and next year’s presidential election, he said, “The party will lead the end-of-term policy.”

The Seoul Economic Daily made Lame Duck a default. In the editorial “The ruling party’s hard-liners are rushing the civil government’s lame duck,” the newspaper said, “Only when President Moon directly clarifies the truth behind the prosecution’s passing controversy and apologizes for the runaway politics, the state administration can be normalized.” If we continue to operate the state administration that is free from the law and common sense, the lame duck will inevitably accelerate.”

There were voices of concern about the Gadeokdo New Airport Act, which the opposition parties are promoting ahead of the Busan mayoral election.

The Chosun Ilbo pointed out that in the editorial “Gadeokdo law that is against all government ministries, a regime that is crazy about elections,” it is a strange situation that government ministries oppose Gadeokdo, pushed by President Moon Jae-in. Although President Moon is promoting it for election purposes, it is a content that criticizes President Moon because government ministries oppose it.

The JoongAng Ilbo said in an editorial “Gadeokdo New Airport Act, which was opposed by the ministry in charge, the President should stop it”, “I hope the opposition parties will stop and think again, but it is unlikely at this time.” “As most of the relevant ministries were opposed or negative, President Moon We have to go ahead.” It is argued that the ruling and opposition parties promote it because of the election, but as there are various problems, the president must step forward and stop it.

Meanwhile, from the 25th, Naver will stop the service of’real-time rising search terms’ (real-time inspection). It’s been 16 years. The Hankyoreh evaluated it as “late but welcome,” in an editorial saying, “Naver’real sword’ abolished, now is the time for the media to respond.” Daum abolished the actual inspection service in February of last year. In the meantime, the media community has criticized the real sword as an accomplice in ruining journalism and producing stimulating articles focused on hits.

The Hankyoreh said, “The net function of spreading social issues and creating public opinion disappeared, and only dysfunctions remained, so it was transformed into a tool to intentionally generate interest in political purposes or business. He criticized that he used’abuse’ to create dozens to hundreds of similar articles with different titles.” He added, “In Korea, where news is most consumed on portals, this has undermined the trust of journalism.”

The Hankyoreh said, “Naver and Daum are not limited to the abolition of the real sword, and there is a need to improve comment management that reveals as many problems as the real sword.” “It is not yesterday and today that portal comments are being flooded with unfounded slander and profanity. ” He also argued, “After Choi Jin-ri (Sulli) made an extreme choice, Daum and Naver abolished comments in the fields of entertainment and sports, but the management of comments on articles in other fields such as politics and society should be even more strict.”

The press also ordered a change. The Hankyoreh wrote, “We have to compete with the quality of articles, not tricks like abusing and fishing,” and “I hope that the abolition of real swords will become the starting point for healthy changes in the domestic Internet ecosystem.”

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