Columnist Roh Jeong-tae analyzed the progressive papers in our society in the book’The Age of Papers’ published in February 2014. I critically examined how the public spheres and debates they created changed our society. The people who filled the chapters in the Age of Nonguest were Kang Joon-man, Jin Joong-kwon, Yoo Si-min, Park No-ja, Woo Seok-hoon, Kim Gyu-Hang, Kim Eo-jun, Hong Se-hwa, and Ko Jong-seok.
Those who embroidered the 1990s and 2000s with writing and various debates, participated in real politics or led media movements such as the anti-Korean movement, and strongly criticized Korean society’s capitalism with a stranger and non-mainstream gaze. Although it may be possible to change the generation of commentators, some of these commentators are still active as’opinion leaders’ through newspapers, broadcasts, and books. Of course, the views between them are sharply opposed or at times agree. In particular, in the case of’the country situation and reform of the prosecution’.
Si-min Yoo and Eo-jun Kim, a speaker of progress
Ryu Si-min, the chairman of Roh Moo-Hyun-dan, who declared his retirement from the political world, declared himself a “fishing intellectual” of the Moon Jae-in regime. He appeared on Hankyoreh TV’Kim Eo-Jun’s Popeyes’ in May 2017 and said, “If you are an intellectual or journalist, it is correct to keep a distance from power and be critical of power. But only the president changes. It survives longer than the president and cannot be changed. He declared, “I am a Pyongyang member of the Justice Party, but I am trying to become an intellectual to the Panjinbo government, because the vested powers that exercise more powerful powers are everywhere and will be harassing again.”
He got off at the JTBC program’Seoljeon’ the following year, and has been conducting’Alileo’ produced by the Roh Moo Hyun Team since January last year. In Season 3, which resumed last month, it was decided not to do “political criticism” anymore, but in the previous season, he devoted himself to the role of “fishing intellectual” by sharply confronting Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, who investigated the family of former Justice Minister Cho Kook. He drove issues and controversy over the past year, with the KBS legal team resigning from the job as the head of the social department due to the allegation that the KBS legal team had distorted the reports of former minister Cho Kook and the legal team was actually taken personnel.
‘I am a trick’ Mr. Eo-Jun Kim has been running the TBS Radio’Eo-Jun Kim’s News Factory’ since September 2016. He does not care about the existing process and balance of broadcasting. Because of this, the government and ruling party are constantly controversial about bias and the quality of public broadcasters, but their influence is overwhelming compared to any other competing media. Korea Research ranked first with a 12% listening rate in the 2020 4th round Seoul metropolitan area radio listening rate released on the 4th of last month. After ranking first in the survey in 2018, it has shown its influence with an overwhelming gap from the second place.
Controversy over bias and fairness has also emerged recently. Kim said in the broadcast on the 25th that he cited the request for the suspension of disciplinary execution by Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, saying, “The prosecution and the judiciary united to create a legal coup.” “A judge in the administrative court said,’My prosecutor general’s term “I’ll guarantee you,” he insisted. The conviction of Professor Chung Gyeong-Shim of Dongyang University, the spouse of former Minister Cho Kook, was criticized as “a judgment made by a judge by dancing to the rhyme while enjoying (partially) media reports” (YouTube’Dasveoida’).
The media interviewed in October last year by daughter Cho Min, whom the first trial court identified as an accomplice to Professor Jeong’s entrance examination, was also TBS’Kim Eo-jun’s News Factory’. Kang Sang-hyun, chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, who attended the National Assembly audit at the time, said, “It is inevitable to point out that there is definitely a problem with TBS having a biased cast on the air.” In a recent interview with Shin Dong-ah, author Noh Jeong-tae, who asked about the ‘wording’ of both Yoo and Kim, said, “Since progressive contributors regard development discourse and growth discourse as sinful or fail to design, they regressively obsess over revenge or the past. Criticized.
Jin Jung-kwon of the returning’poisonous tongue’… Criticism of the new book Moon Jun-man Kang
When Professor Kyung-Shim Chung was sentenced to jail, former Dongyang University professor Jin Joong-kwon declared “I will finish posting on Facebook.” According to the Journalists Association report in July, he was ranked 18th most frequently cited in the media in the first half of this year. Reporters’ Association reported, “There was a person with the most unique identity among the numerous characters, so he was a former professor at Dongyang University. While the party, government, government, diplomatic and security and corona19-related figures are in the top ranks, Professor Jin was cited in 2093 cases from January to June, ranking 18th. It is interpreted that this is because the Moon Jae-in government and the ruling party are in conflict.”
He has elevated the level of swearword to the Moon Jae-in regime so that no explanation is needed. In response to the’White Paper of the Motherland’, he was named as the co-author of’The Black Book of the Motherland’ (a country that I have never experienced), and in the last Facebook post on the 23rd, “I remember many people who turned false into fact.” “I criticize the Democratic Party lawmakers who deceived the public, the Open Democratic Party politicians who even falsified facts to protect their country, and the President who has tolerated and endorsed their political fraud.”
Prof. Jin also criticized “TBS’s news factory that misleads the truth with strange witnesses,” and “the intellectuals who used to speak sophistication with all sorts of sophistication to distort public opinion.” It is also a criticism of Yoo Si-min and Kim Eo-jun.
Kang Jun-man, a professor at the Department of Journalism and Broadcasting at Chonbuk National University, is also critical of the Moon Jae-in regime. In his recently published book’Politics Without Compromise’, he said, “Looking at the attitude the Moon Jae-in administration showed to Yoon Suk-yeol, it was obviously a failure of the Moon administration’s personnel,” he said. “Instead of the’front breakthrough’ of dismissal, the Moon administration has a strategy of resigning himself. I spoke tenaciously. Yun Seok-yeol persisted, and in December 2019, when Chu Mi-ae was introduced as Minister of Justice, the concentration of’dirty fights’ increased.” He added, “In this process, the’prosecution reform’ turned into a’killing Yun Seok-yeol’ project, and strange things that were difficult to understand took place.”
In this book, Professor Kang commented on Chairman Ryu Si-min, saying, “Whatever is good for Moon Jae-in, I am addicted to the unproductive and destructive’campaign logic’ that I see as good and justice.” While questioning the necessary political paradigm itself, it would be nice to make an effort to change the’religiousization of politics’ itself, which he contributed without knowing, while temporarily suspending the calculation of who is advantageous or disadvantageous.”
Professor Kang also said about Eo-Jun Kim, “they always produce conspiracy theories, saying,’They fight against giant tricks (conspiracy).’ “Even if it turns out to be a shameful conspiracy theory, I am very confident. Such privileges are derived from the’Shut Up and Support’ of Moon Jae-in supporters, but they also criticized that they would not know that the’victim pretense’ provided by the conspiracy theory could be a’power reproduction mechanism’.”
Hong Se-hwa compares President Moon to a king
Another progressive journalist, Hong Se-hwa, compared President Moon to a king in a column from the Hankyoreh last month. In this column, Mr. Hong said, “The king doesn’t have to ask uncomfortable questions and go to an uncomfortable position, but the president doesn’t. The reason that former President Park Geun-hye had to go to Paengmok Port was because it was the president, not the king. President Moon is closer to the king than the President in that he avoids uncomfortable questions and inconvenient positions. The same is true of receiving’appeals’ from the people through the Blue House National Petition Bulletin. It’s a king, but a good king.”
In an interview with Shin Dong-ah, the 86th generation, which is the mainstream of the Moon regime, was referred to as’democratic gangsters’ and said, “As current conservatives are not conservatives, progress is not progressive.” Nationalists called conservatives, and liberal conservative forces, which led anti-Japanese nationalism, referred to progress.”
In an interview with YTN on the 23rd, the government and ruling party led the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation agency, “There is a concern that democratic control should be applied to the prosecution, but controlling it with another power agency will eventually become a rooftop.” There are other methods, such as allowing the private sector to deliberate on prosecution or giving the victim the right to prosecute. He criticized the idea that it is biased toward creating another authority to control the authority.”
Woo Seok-hoon, an economist who strongly expressed opposition at the time of appointment of Justice Minister Cho Kook last year, and criticized “the current regime does not seem to be trying to resolve something about social disparities and economic inequality,” said in an interview with Dong-A weekly last month, “Just like that, everyone “I don’t know if it’s a problem that needs to be solved by running, or maybe it’s a problem to be solved, and I don’t know if the solutions we came up with for judicial reform are the right solutions. He said, “I think I’m spending my precious time working in Ammon during my term of office,” he said, adding that it was difficult to agree with the airlift.
In this interview, he said, “I had to do something to improve the lives of young people, but there was no such thing,” as the young generation is being marginalized. Several politicians and bureaucrats parachuted to the achievements. Political failure and incompetence. He pointed out that politics was over-represented around the Blue House.”
Park Lao-Ja, who supported the Ministry of Public Affairs, “must be neutral in public power”
In an interview with JoongAng Ilbo in March, author Gyu-Hang Kim, a progressive writer who founded the social and cultural criticism magazine’The Outsider’ with former professor Jin Jung-kwon, said in an interview with the JoongAng Ilbo in March, “The Moon Jae-in administration only made a list like the Park Geun-hye administration, but the camp’s logic remains the same.” “Another is the problem of emotion, but there is still a strange structure of consciousness in the progressive camp that assumes an’enemy’ and fights against it. He pointed out that the progressive camp, who was trying to save his country, assumed the prosecution as an’enemy’.”
On the 25th, he posted on his blog on the 25th, “The ruling of Mr. Jung Kyung-Shim and the return of Mr. Yoon Seok-yeol belong to the’recovery of common sense’,” he said. “There are some people whose goal is a world where common sense works. Some people dream of a world that works. I’m glad for both of them.” Go Jong-seok, a former journalist, is criticizing the Moon administration on personal SNS.
On the other hand, there are arguments who have different voices. Noja Park, a professor at the University of Oslo, Norway, said in an interview with the Hankyoreh TV on the 11th, “People such as Cho Kook are the upper class of Korean society.” “Some of the problems were close to the practices of the upper class and others to the practice of the professor society. From the point of view of the common people, I would have had no choice but to be angry.”
Still, Professor Park said, “The prosecution robbed Professor Cho. However, nothing like the (professor’s) exploitation of graduate students came out. There were no incidents of sexual harassment,” he said. “How many professors like this are in Korea.” It is read to the effect that the Korean faculty society is so corrupt.
Professor Park said, “I do not support Prof. Cho or President Moon Jae-in,” he pointed out that “the prosecution is acting like a party, not public authority.” He said, “It is said that Korean society is democratized, but it is not perfect institutionalization,” he said. “Public authority such as the prosecutor’s power should be neutral.” He favored the establishment of the airlift, saying, “We must relativize the powers monopolized by the prosecution.”
Professor Park also said, “(Professor Jin) seems to be greatly mistaken. After criticizing that he is confusing the current ruling class and power, he said, “The president is not the true power of Korean society. The president and those in power must see them separately. The president is five years old.” Also, “Jin should look at it for a long time. If the far right comes to power, he added that the next step is to put President Moon Jae-in in jail for’Suk-yeol Yoon’.”
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