Candidate Ahn Cheol-soo, Mayor of Seoul, is speaking at a debate inviting candidates hosted by the Korean Journalists Association, Broadcast Journalists Association, and the Korean PD Association on the 17th at the Korean Broadcasting Center in Mok-dong, Seoul. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
With the by-election of the mayor of Seoul approaching, the rumors between the Nationalist Party candidate Ahn Chul-soo and the 1st opposition party, who became pan-opposition candidates, are getting longer. Candidate Ahn counterattacked by referring to the wife of the same name, Kim Jong-in, the head of the People’s Power Emergency Response Committee, in connection with referring to his wife, Professor Mi-kyung Kim as a “situation system”.
Candidate Ahn said at a debate inviting candidates from the Seoul Journalists Association, Broadcast Reporters Association, and the Korean PD Association on the 17th, “I don’t know if you will excuse me, but Chairman Kim’s wife has the same name as my wife.” A lot of (similar) stories are also spreading in Yeouido,” he said. Candidate Ahn said, “I can only interpret that I was mistaken with him.”
Candidate Ahn said, “I don’t talk about politics at home.” said.
Regarding candidate Oh Se-hoon, president of New Media Headquarters, Lee Jun-suk, who criticized candidate Oh Se-hoon by expressing it as a’female situation’, Ahn said, “Isn’t the person who said that dismissed the chairman of his party.” Candidate Ahn added that Lee Headquarters “will be cut off soon.”
Lee also refuted the counterattack of Candidate Ahn. After Ahn’s remarks at a press conference, he said on his Facebook page, “I told reporters,’I don’t talk about political at all at home.’ When I was nominated for the Barun Future Party in 2018, even if I didn’t talk about political at home, my wife was in the nomination process. Did you intervene and go around with the candidate? It’s disappointing.”
In addition, Lee said, “You pointed out that you are targeting politicians’ families as targets of attack, but CEO Ahn Cheol-soo has forgotten the case of the National Assembly Party that manipulated the suspicion of preferential employment for Moon Jun-yong during the last presidential election?” “Who does the person who attacked and apologized publicly would teach it to?”
Following this, the head of the headquarters criticized “If you forgot the memory of having to apologize to Mr. Moon Jun-yong, he is also Ahn Chul-soo’s inner bull”. When Candidate Ahn said that he would be cut off soon, he said, “It’s not worth the reaction to attract attention.”
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