Conservative Press Criticizes President and Democratic Party for Resignation of President Yoon Seok-yeol
Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol eventually resigned from the post of president on the 4th. Yoon took office as president in July 2019. After 20 months of inauguration, and four months before his term of office, he expressed his gratitude.
President Yoon held a press conference in front of the front door of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-gu, Seoul at 2 pm on the 4th, and said, “I am going to resign from the president today. “My role in the prosecution is so far,” he said. “I am going to resign the president today. The constitutional spirit and the rule of law system that supported this country are being destroyed. The damage will intact to the people. “I can’t wait to see that the justice and common sense that this society has built up so hard to break down.”
On the 5th, the nationwide general daily newspapers and economic newspapers dealt with the news of’President Yoon’s resignation’ on the front page. Conservative media such as the Chosun Ilbo, JoongAng Ilbo, Dong-A Ilbo, Segye Ilbo, Maeil Economic Daily, and the Korean Economy criticized the Democratic Party together with the President instead of criticizing Yun, who resigned while suggesting political actions in editorials.
The Dong-A Ilbo read on the third page, “Suk-yeol Yoon, the weight of independent power after election in April… For the time being, I would like to distance myself from politics.” The Dong-A Ilbo reported, “After Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol resigned on the 4th with keywords full of political implications such as’public people’ and’liberal democracy’, the politics came out as saying that the presidential campaign was made a regular fact.
The Dong-A Ilbo said, “The fact that Yoon made his last move as the prosecutor general in Daegu, or resigned from the March 9th 2022 presidential election one year and five days ahead, has a high degree of political calculation. The ruling and opposition parties are paying attention to how the’Suk-yeol Yoon presidential election plan’ will unfold, as well as the 4/7 re-election by-election as well as next year’s presidential election as a variable.” .
The Dong-A Ilbo also wrote an article stating that Yoon had a lot of connections. The Chosun Ilbo said, “The network of political circles does not discriminate between the opposition parties. In the passport, it is known that he is close to the former president of the Democratic Research Institute Yang Jeong-cheol, who is counted as an aide to President Moon Jae-in. It is also reported that after the Park Geun-hye administration was relegated from the special investigation team leader of the National Intelligence Service during the Park Geun-hye administration, Seoul Mayor Park Young-seon and Park Ji-won, the chief of the National Intelligence Service, etc. However, it is said that after Yoon formed a tense relationship with the passport, he became far from the passport personnel.”
In an editorial, the Dong-A Ilbo argued that the passport that created this situation was more responsible than the criticism of Yoon, which suggests the political movement. In the Dong-A Ilbo editorial, “President Yoon’s resignation in the midst of the prosecutor’s office undermined the spirit of the prosecution system. It is correct to remain in place until the end of the term in order to prevent the installation of the heavy water office and complete the investigation of the nuclear power plant according to his wishes. That is why it is pointed out that he has hastened to resign in consideration of the next presidential election schedule. “The prosecutor’s office amendments to the prosecutor’s office, which prohibits him from running for public office for one year after retirement, has been proposed in the National Assembly, and he was aware of this.
Still, he said, “It is difficult to deny that the excessive promotion of the passports and the pressure of the prosecutors’ resignation provided the primary cause of the resignation.”
In an editorial of the JoongAng Ilbo, “The Cheong Wa Dae and the ruling party, who mobilized all kinds of numbers to drop off the prosecutor general who guaranteed a two-year term in order to protect political neutrality and independence, have been criticized for reminiscent of the era of dictatorship, but they have no say.
The Hankyoreh, Kyunghyang, Seoul, South Korea, and the people, criticized the current affairs of the political actions of President Yoon Seok-yeol
On the other hand, other newspapers other than the conservative press criticized Yoon’s resignation, suggesting political actions, as an act that undermined the “neutrality of the prosecution.”
The Hankook Ilbo, in an article titled “’Yun’s Farewell History’, which is like the presidential election,’the power to protect the people in any position’,” on page 3, “Cho-Mi’s interest is when he declares his politics. As he has just left his position as the incumbent prosecutor general, if he starts political activities immediately, there is a high likelihood that criticism will pour out. For the time being, it is said that he will live a’night life’ and aim for the’right time’ in the political world.”
In an editorial, the Hankook Ilbo, “It was suggested to advance into the political world. It leaves a big scar on the prosecution’s political neutrality and independence. The incumbent prosecutor-general was in intense conflict with the government and could not fulfill his term of office, and it remained a bad precedent in that it was a resignation for politics.”
The Hankook Ilbo said, “After leaving his luck in the letter of appreciation for the government in October last year,’I will think about how to serve the people,’ he recently reflected his political intentions through unusual media interviews and visits to the Daegu High and District Prosecutors’ Office. There is already a lot of hope that he will run for the presidential election next year. However, on the side of his resignation, he did not draw a line on whether he would advance into the political world, and he opened up that possibility by mentioning the people once more.”
The Hankook Ilbo said, “Being a politician after the prosecutor general resigns is undermining the political neutrality and independence of the prosecution. Whenever the investigation into the regime, including the investigation of former Justice Minister Cho Kook, is excessively pushed, it makes the gaze of some who doubted Yoon’s intentions a fact.”
In an editorial by the Kookmin Ilbo, “The resignation of President Yoon was first of a strong politics. The prosecution criticized that there were many internal complaints about the reforms of the prosecution, such as the adjustment of the prosecutor’s office and the establishment of a criminal investigation office for high-ranking public officials promoted by the Moon Jae-in administration.
The Kookmin Ilbo said, “President Yoon showed the possibility of going to politics at last year’s inspection of state affairs. After that, there were not a few words and actions that would be misunderstood like a politician. At one time, the preference for presidential election runners was ranked first in the polls. On this day, too, President Yoon emphasized the inevitableness of resignation, putting the people ahead of the people like any other politician. This unfortunate situation should never be repeated again.”
Kyunghyang Shinmun also said in an editorial, “President Yoon was also criticized for showing excessive political actions. In the process of opposing the heavy water office, they openly held a public opinion war. I went to the prosecutor’s office in Daegu and told the prosecutors,’Don’t look at the human resources right’. He criticized that it was a politics that wasn’t like the head of the prosecution organization, whose life was neutrality and independence.”
The Hankyoreh, Kyunghyang, Hankook Ilbo, Sergeant Byun Hee-soo’s death is’social killing’
Former Sergeant Byun Hee-soo, who was forced to be discharged after undergoing a sex change operation, was found dead at his home on the 3rd. Sergeant Byeon also filed an administrative lawsuit against the Army after filing a complaint with the National Human Rights Commission.
In 2017, Sergeant Byun was appointed as an army sergeant. Since then, in November 2019, he underwent a sex change operation in Thailand. He hoped to continue serving in the military, but the army decided to dismiss him on January 22 last year after a third grade mental and physical disability decision.
On the 3rd, the Hankyoreh and the Kyunghyang Shinmun Hankook Ilbo reported an editorial on the death of Sergeant Byeon. They said that Sergeant Byun’s death was’social killing’.
The Hankyoreh said, “Some of our society has poured out indescribable discrimination and hate speech and demeanor. He wrote, “It is easy to guess that the twisted perception of LGBTQ people’will not recognize them as they are’ would have felt as a huge wall that he cannot overcome.”
Following that, the Hankyoreh wrote about the death of the Jeju Queer Culture Festival co-organizer Kim Ki-hong on the 24th of last month, and said, “To ensure that the sacrifices of the two are not in vain, we must make our society a’society where everyone is recognized as they exist’. The government and the National Assembly must immediately enact an anti-discrimination law.”
The Kyunghyang Shinmun also said, “The deaths of industrial accidents, victims of gender violence, and migrant workers are often referred to as’social killings’. It refers to the’death of the weak’ who have no exit from the law or system, and stare at whether they must die while struggling in a remote place. The death of LGBTI people caused by hatred is no different. Globally, the issue of LGBTI people has become a measure of human rights, tolerance, and maturity of a society,” he said. “I hope the National Assembly hastened to create a starting line for the law that allows anyone to live as’same citizen’ without discrimination.”
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