Jung-in blamed her adoption, not abuse…

President Moon Jae-in comforts a family who shed tears during a memorial address at the 37th anniversary of the 5.18 Democratization Movement held at the May 18 National Cemetery in Buk-gu, Gwangju on the morning of May 18, 2017. [중앙포토]

Former National Assembly Chairman Moon Hee-sang once evaluated President Moon Jae-in as a’chest-type leader’ with empathy for President Moon Jae-in in a past interview. Chairman Moon said, “He has an unusual ability to warmly hug a sick and regretful person and speak loudly.” However, recently, President Moon’s message is often pointed out that “there is no empathy”.

A representative example is a message related to the recent’Jeong Ini Incident’. The’Jung Ini Case’ is a case where a 16-month-old infant died due to child abuse. However, on the 4th, the Blue House spokesman Kang Min-seok said that President Moon’s work was “Please make every effort to manage adopted children after death.” Jung-in found the cause of death primarily in adoption. The word’adoption’ appears 11 times in spokesman Kang’s written briefing for 900 women.

The adoptive parents burst into resentment, saying, “I was treated as a potential child abuse criminal.” On the 7th, the National Adopted Family Solidarity appealed at the entrance statement, “Even though young adopted children in elementary school found a statement in Kakao Talk Room with their friends, “All adopted parents are bad and all adopted children are poor”.
The adopted family solidarity is “In one word (President Moon’s)… He criticized that there is an unfounded public opinion that Jung In-i’s sad death was purely due to’adoption’.” According to the Adopted Family Solidarity, only one of the 70 children who died of child abuse in 2018-2019 were caused by adoptive parents.

On the 8th, citizens commemorate Jung In, who died 16 months after birth due to the abuse of her adoptive parents at the High Family Andersen Park Cemetery in Yangpyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do. [연합뉴스]

In a phone call with JoongAng Ilbo on the 8th, Kim Ji-young, director of the Adopted Family Solidarity, said, “The’Jung Ini’ incident’ occurred not because of adoption, but because of abuse. Director Kim also added, “The message of President Moon was grim as it repeated the arguments of some women’s groups opposing adoption.”

It was also pointed out in November of last year that the message was not sympathetic to the hearts of the parties. President Moon wrote on social media before the college entrance exam, “If you take the SAT safely and safely, the excellence of K-quarantine will shine even more.” In a situation where the candidates who are about to take the SAT are tense due to the novel coronavirus infection (Corona 19), the President’s message contains an expression that seems to regard the SAT as a promotional opportunity for K-Defense.

The comments from the test takers were overflowing. “Do you mean that it is more important to be recognized for the excellence of K-quarantine than the health of 500,000 test takers?”, “When was the SAT exam compulsory to show off to foreign media?”, “People first (X), K-quarantine There was also a comment saying, “This is first (O).” At the time, an official at the Blue House said, “There is a part where message management has failed. I did not consider the position of the examinee too much.”

On September 1st, last year, in front of the main building of Seoul National University Hospital in Jongno-gu, Seoul, a doctor is distributing a handout to the citizens stating the opposition to the expansion of medical school gardens and the establishment of public medical schools. [뉴스1]

President Moon Jae-in posted on social media on September 2nd last year. Facebook capture

In September of last year, there was also a controversy between doctors and nurses. President Moon wrote in an SNS message to the nurses, “I comfort the nurses who are silently guarding the medical field where doctors have left.” There was also an expression “the situation where you have to take on the burdens of doctors who strike for a long time.” The doctor’s strike was underway. Naturally, an interpretation came out that pretended to encourage the nurse and pressed the doctors. Not only doctors, but also general netizens commented, “Is it okay for the president to split this side?” and “The president who splits the people in half and makes them fight.

President Moon, who once heard the ‘chest-type leader’, is why there is a controversy over the message in the second half of his power. In the end, it is analyzed that President Moon does not have access to the public opinion evenly these days. Professor Lee Jae-mook of the Department of Political Science and Diplomacy at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies said, “With President Moon not doing well at press conferences, the only way to hear public opinion is the staff. He pointed out that the Blue House staff have a strong tendency to’one-by-one’, but if they only listen to them from the staff on the same side, their ability to sympathize with the general public’s thoughts will inevitably decrease as they go to the second half of their term.”

Reporter Yoon Seongmin [email protected]