In the midst of a situation close to a disaster, with 7 deaths due to a record heavy rain in the central region, Mayor Park Gang-soo of Mapo-gu has been criticized for posting a picture of a hand-drawn ‘V’ while having a happy dinner on social media. When related articles came out, Mayor Park took down the post, but as netizens captured the post and commented on it, criticizing it, deleting the comment this time, the controversy is growing.
On the evening of the 8th, Mayor Park posted on his Facebook page, “On a rainy Monday evening, I was hungry, so I’m eating at the whole house with the staff. I also uploaded pictures of V).
In fact, it was a disaster, but there were criticisms that the public official posted the wrong post without understanding the atmosphere. As of the morning of the 9th, the post was deleted, and Mayor Park posted a photo of the visit to the rainwater pumping station.
Then, netizens posted a screenshot of the dinner post in the comments and started asking why they deleted it.
Mayor Park then commented, “I worked late and was hungry, so I ate kimchi stew and jeon with the staff on the way home from work. I don’t drink alcohol except under special circumstances. I’m sorry I ate the jeon.”
Netizens continued to comment, ‘I’m not sure if I’ve been drinking’ or ‘The important thing is not whether I’ve been drinking or not, but that I haven’t been able to understand the mood’. Then, as some comments were deleted, comments criticizing the deletion of comments started running again.
In another comment, Mayor Park said, “Yesterday I was confused by malicious comments.” Regarding the comment, one netizen also expressed concern, saying, “If you talk about criticism as a ‘malicious comment’, the headwind will be more severe.”
In addition, Mayor Park wrote, “You respect Moon Jae-in,” to a netizen who criticized him. It is possible to point out that they attack citizens with camp logic regardless of the issue.
Mayor Park is a former president of Sisa Focus, which is classified as a conservative media. Until the end of February, Mayor Park wrote a number of columns criticizing the Democratic Party with Dong-gyun Yoo, the then mayor of Mapo-gu (and also a member of the Democratic Party), in Sisa Focus and the local media Mapo Thank You News, which he founded, until the end of February. was elected to
In a call with Media Today on the morning of the 9th, an official from the Mapo-gu Office said, “We are making clarification materials, and we plan to announce them within the morning.”
On the other hand, in November last year, Mayor Park, as a columnist, wrote a column on Current Affairs Focus, “Have you left Mapo-gu out of your mind, have you left the residents safe in the current Corona situation?” “On the 13th, when the number of corona19 confirmed by Mapo-gu Office was in the 2,000 range for the fourth day, About 80 people, including mayor Yoo Dong-gyun, as well as executive-level civil servants, went on a group hike and even had a meal, and four of them were found to have been confirmed by COVID-19 and are now on the cutting board. criticized it.
At that time, Mayor Park said in a column, “Even if it is a ‘with Corona’ situation, should the mayor, at least, be more vigilant than the general ward and strive for quarantine management while refraining from group events as much as possible? I want to ask the mayor once.”
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