Democratic Party lawmaker Nam In-soon attends the Supreme Council meeting held at the National Assembly on July 22 last year. Senior Reporter Kang Chang-Kwang [email protected]
The silence of Democratic Party lawmaker Nam In-soon, who was revealed to have conveyed the late Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s suspicion of sexual harassment to Seoul, is getting longer. Kim Young-soon, the executive representative of the Federation of Korean Women’s Organizations, who conveyed this fact to Congressman Nam, also did not express any other position other than resigning from the government commission. Inside the women’s world, there is a voice that it is necessary to look back on whether the women’s movement has neglected the essence of’solidarity with the victims’ in the process of collaborating with the political world. On the 30th of last month, the Seoul Northern District Prosecutor’s Office announced that the fact that the victim was going to sue Mayor Park for the “Me Too case” was passed on to Mayor Park through the Gender Special Report from Kim Young-soon → Rep. Congressman Nam entered politics as a proportional representative while serving as the secretary-general of the Korean Women’s Association and a permanent representative. Lim served as an aide to Congressman Nam. The Korean Women’s Association said, “I sincerely apologize to the victims and joint action groups who struggled to find out the truth” on the day of the prosecution’s investigation results. However, in July of last year, “I didn’t know that Mayor Park was suing. Rep. Nam, who said, “Please refrain from reporting speculatively (that you informed the Seoul city of the complaint),” did not show any reaction even though the results of the investigation overturned his previous claims. An official from the ruling party said, “Isn’t there a situation where there is nothing else to say?” Last year, when Democratic women lawmakers discussed the contents of a statement on Mayor Park’s case, it became known that Congressman Nam claimed the expression’a victim of victims’ rather than’a victim’, and the situation is getting worse. Finally, on the 4th, in front of the office of the Federation of Korean Women’s Organizations in Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul, a large letter written by a person who introduced himself as the “youngest activist” of a women’s organization was posted. The author wrote, “This situation stems from the closed and vertical attitude of the representatives.” In the process of increasing participation in political relations among women from women’s organizations, healthy tensions were relieved, while juniors were unable to speak out in a vertical organizational atmosphere. Some voices say that the apology and honest clarification of the parties are needed so that the controversy about the leak of the accusation through a women’s organization does not obscure the nature of the Mayor Park case. Sohn Hee-jeong, an academic research professor at Kyung Hee University’s Comparative Culture Research Institute, said, “It is a natural response process for the victim’s lawyer to ask for help from women’s organizations, and women’s organizations to seek solidarity with other organizations. The problem is that the fact that the accused came into the ear of Mayor Park, but it is not correct to criticize this point as a single chunk without distinguishing it. “It is difficult to understand that the person concerned, including Congressman Nam, must come and explain this situation in person, but staying silent is difficult.” An official from a women’s organization who requested anonymity said, “As seen in the recent abolition abolition, collaboration between the women’s world and the politicians is essential for the aid of women’s organizations to lead to institutional and legalization. However, it has been confirmed that the necessary tensions in the process of influencing women’s organizations into the politicians have also eased. With this opportunity, we need to reorganize the relationship between women’s organizations and the politics.” By Lim Jae-woo, staff reporter [email protected]