2023-12-30 12:11:15
Han Dong-hoon, Chairman of the People Power Emergency Response Committee, is taking a commemorative photo after awarding the appointment letter to Emergency Response Committee member Min Kyeong-woo at the Emergency Response Committee Appointment Ceremony and the first Emergency Response Committee meeting held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the afternoon of the 29th. /News 1
Min Kyung-woo, a member of the People Power Party’s emergency response committee, who had caused controversy in the past for ‘disparaging the elderly’ on YouTube, suddenly resigned on the 30th. It has been one day since I received the letter of appointment from emergency committee chairman Han Dong-hoon on the 29th. Even before ‘Emergency Committee Member Han Dong-hoon’ began his activities in earnest, he was faced with the negative news of the resignation of the member of the emergency committee.
Emergency committee member Min issued a statement that day, saying, “I am resigning from my position as emergency committee member today. “I do not want to put pressure on the start of the emergency committee because of the controversy over my past remarks,” he said. “From now on, I will do my best in my position to clean up activist politics.”
Previously, emergency committee member Min appeared on a YouTube broadcast last October and said, “The biggest tragedy right now is that the elderly are living too long. He caused controversy by saying, “You must die quickly.” Emergency committee member Min immediately apologized on the broadcast.
Emergency committee member Min was in the position of saying, ‘As the 386 movement forces become vested interests, they will not give up their seats to the younger generation until 486 and 586,’ but there were immediate demands for resignation from the Democratic Party of Korea and the Korea Senior Citizens’ Association. In his remarks at the first emergency committee meeting held on the 29th, Emergency Committee Member Min said, “I once again respectfully apologize for my incautious expressions in the past. It was a slip of the tongue while the 386 generation was criticizing the social phenomenon of blocking the entry of the younger generation due to age and status. He had to first apologize for the controversy, saying, “I will be more careful with my words and actions in the future.”
The reaction within the party is that they did not expect the sudden resignation of emergency committee member Min. As soon as the controversy broke out on the 29th, Chairman Han directly called and apologized to Kim Ho-il, president of the Korea Senior Citizens’ Association, who had demanded the resignation of Emergency Committee member Min, and expressed his intention to visit the Senior Citizens’ Association and apologize again, saying, “I will see you soon.” There was also no atmosphere in which emergency committee member Min was expected to resign.
However, Emergency Committee member Min is said to have felt burdened by the situation where the focus was on his own controversy rather than on the emergency committee even before the emergency committee ‘Han Dong-hoon’ started in earnest. It was reported that he had a strong intention to take responsibility himself as some media outlets began covering other comments he had made in the past.
Chairman Han also emphasized ‘justice and principles’ at the first emergency committee meeting and emphasized the difference from the Democratic Party several times, saying, “As long as we win by any means necessary, we are no different from the Democratic Party.” When the chairman announced his intention to resign, he reportedly said that he would not drag this issue out any longer and would settle it at an early date.
Park Jeong-ha, senior spokesperson for the People Power Party, said in a phone call, “It has not yet been decided whether to appoint an additional emergency member to fill the vacant position of emergency committee member Min. “Chairman Han will review and make a decision,” he said.
Min, the standing representative of the civic group Gil, is a former activist who served as the secretary-general of the southern headquarters of the Pan-National Coalition for Fatherland Unification, an enemy group, and was arrested twice for violating the National Security Act. However, he recently said, “We will clean up the trash we created.” He has been advocating for the liquidation of the 86 movement.
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