The Maeil Newspaper compared the increase in the ownership tax to the assault of citizens of the Chun Doo-Hwan regime’s martial law forces, and made a complaining about inappropriately borrowing photos during the May 18 Democratization Movement.
The daily newspaper Maeil Shinmun in Daegu, Gyeongsangbuk-do published a cartoon comment on the page in the section of’Maeil Heepyeong’ on the 18th with the title’Wandering without a home or being beaten at night’. It was drawn by Kim Kyung-soo, a current affairs cartoonist. Maeil Heipyeong ridiculed the increase in the home ownership tax of more than 900 million won by borrowing the scenes of the May 18 Martial Law Forces’ violent crackdown in 1980.
Manpyeong described property tax, comprehensive real estate tax, and health insurance premiums as members of the airborne troops assaulting the citizens of Gwangju. Citizens who are crouched on the floor and beaten were named’no more than 900 million people in the middle of the night’. In fact, during the May 18 Democratization Movement, it was portrayed by imitating the composition and figures in photographs recorded in Gwangju. Manpyeong described this scene as’the concept of land dictatorship, not the idea of land disclosure.’
As a result, criticism came out that it was an insult to the victims of the Gwangju massacre and that it distorted the historical meaning. On the 15th, the publicly announced land price, which is the standard for tax imposition on apartments, row houses, and multi-family houses, rose 19.08%. As the public price rises, the property tax and comprehensive real estate tax increase, increasing the burden on some high-priced and multi-household owners. Among these, health insurance premiums are also rising for local subscribers. Manpyeong compared this increase in the ownership tax to the slaughter of the military dictatorship.
On the 19th of the Cheong Wa Dae’s public petition bulletin board, an article petitioned for “the punishment of newspaper companies for insulting the May 18 Democratization Movement” was posted.
Maeil Shinmun deleted the man-pyeong online without revealing its position as criticism poured out on social media.
Maeil Shinmun and cartoonist Kim Kyung-soo once drew inappropriate comments about the assault of martial law forces during the May 18 Democratization Movement last year. In Manpyeong last August, after the court allowed conservative groups to rally on the 8·15 Liberation Day, the judge who allowed the rally was described as a Gwangju citizen assaulted, as a martial law force assaulting the “family”.
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