Just before taking office, President Yoon Seok-yeol called Kang Yong-seok, a colleague of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, and Gyeonggi Governor Kang Yong-seok and said, “Why are you attacking Gyeonggi Governor Kim Eun-hye without fighting with Democratic Party candidate Kim Dong-yeon?” went into
On the 16th, the presidential office denied that President Yoon Seok-yeol made a phone call to Kang Yong-seok, a lawyer (candidate). Then, candidate Kang Yong-seok rebutted that it was true that he received a phone call from President Yoon (when he was elected) on the evening of the 16th and on the morning of the 17th.
The Democratic Party of Korea, which the Gyeonggi Party reported the day before against President Yoon and Candidate Kang to the Gyeonggi Election Commission on charges of violating the election law, urged the investigation of the truth and responsible action, arguing who was lying.
Candidate Yong-seok Kang, on the morning of the 17th, appeared in the YouTube broadcast Garosero Research Institute’s ‘Insa News’.[단독] Kang Yong-seok “Call me not to fight Kim Eun-hye… In an online interview article on the 13th (offline, on the 14th for an article) of the Korean economy under the title “I am also a friend”, he said, “I will tell you our clear position.”
Candidate Kang said, “Now, the Democratic Party is raising issues by saying that the president intervened in the election, but (President Yoon called) was not the president, but the time when he was elected,” Kang said. (From the then-President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol) I got a call. The contents are not different from the remarks already made in the interview with the Korean economy,” he said. Candidate Kang explained, “This is our official position, and we will not make additional comments in the future.” This is a refutation of the position of the presidential office that Kang’s remarks are not true.
In response, Candidate Kang said, “Some people think this is something that goes like a presidential office and a workshop, and some people find it unpleasant, and we didn’t intend that either.” A reporter from Korea Economic Daily also called and said things like, ‘I’m sorry that it ended up like this,'” he explained.
Candidate Kang said, “Our position is this: ‘We were elected, there was no problem at all, there was no problem because we had been on the phone before, and the call came late on Friday night, the content is not different from the interview remarks, I will not make any additional comments or additional responses to this,” he said.
Hearing the Segye Ilbo article about ‘there is a record of phone calls’, Candidate Kang said, “This article was a bit misleading.” I never said ‘there is a record that Yoon called first’ on the night of the 6th. This is not true, and to be precise, our comment now, ‘The call came late on Friday night, May 6, when President Yoon was elected, the content is not different from the remarks made in the interview with the Korean economy.’ This is our official position and further response I will not All of the things that are being said here because it is very misleading are not true.”
Candidate Kang said, “I started it in an interview with Hankyung, but the rest is like gaining weight. (President Yoon’s remarks) There is no difference from the contents of the Hankyung interview. It is not at all true that the rest of the body gains weight,” he said to the Democratic Party’s allegation of interference in the election, saying, “There is no problem at all because I am the elected person.” He said, “If there was an intervention, it would be May 6th, and we wouldn’t have been holding an election like this until now. It’s nonsense.” He said, “Hankyung told me not to write a story that came out by chance, but because of that, it was written and leaked. Our official position is that we will not talk any more from this standpoint.”
Immediately after the presidential office denied the denial, the Garosero Research Institute reported on the evening of the 16th that there was a phone call from President Yoon (at the time of the election) on May 6th. Reporter Kim Se-eui, who aired with Candidate Kang, said, “There are all records up to a certain date and time.” “The exact date is Friday night, May 6.” Reporter Kim said, “I had a very pleasant interview in the Korean economy interview. He also had a pleasant phone call with President Yoon Seok-yeol, and that’s the content.” “Of course, there were not one or two people who witnessed the scene of talking directly with President Yoon and, of course, with President-elect Kang Yong-seok when he was a candidate. All the celebrities you know were there.” When Candidate Kang mentioned that that time was “the time of the candidacy, the time of the election,” reporter Kim said, “There were a lot of people at the site during the candidacy days.” “So. We even talked to each other while switching,” he said. However, it is not clear whether the phone call on the night of May 6.
In a notice to reporters at around 5:56 pm on the 16th, the presidential office said, “The president has not spoken to lawyer Kang Yong-seok.”
The Gyeonggi Party of the Democratic Party of Korea filed a complaint against President Yoon and Candidate Kang with the Gyeonggi National Election Commission on the same day for violating Articles 9 (the duty of public officials to be neutral in politics) and Article 85 (prohibition of public involvement in politics) of the Public Official Election Act. Although President Yoon was elected, it was included in the accusation saying that he should be regarded as a person equivalent to a public official.
Maeng Jin-gyu, a reporter for Korea Economic Daily, who wrote the article, said in a phone interview with Media Today on the evening of the 16th that he would not be interviewed.
Earlier, when the Korean economy was asked in an interview article on the 13th, ‘If elected, we should cooperate with the central government, Yoon Seok-yeol,’, and Kang Yong-seok said, “Actually, I have a closer relationship with President Yoon Seok-yeol than Kim Eun-hye as a classmate of the Judicial Research and Training Institute.” I contacted him last week and said, ‘Why are you attacking Candidate Eun-hye Kim when (Candidate Eun-hye Kim) has already been selected as a candidate? Shouldn’t we fight well together?'” he reported.
Seok-Yeol Yoon and Yong-Seok Kang, who is lying?
The Democratic Party of Korea called for an investigation into the truth, saying who is lying. Oh Ki-hyung, spokesman for the Democratic Party’s Election Countermeasures Committee, said at a briefing at the press conference at the National Assembly Communication Center on the morning of the 17th, “President Yoon Seok-yeol and Candidate Kang Yong-seok, who is lying? ” he said.
Spokesperson Oh said, “If President Yoon is giving false explanations even after talking to Candidate Kang on the phone, it means that he is aware that President Yoon exercised undue influence on the election as the elected president,” Oh said. We express deep doubts about whether we are giving false explanations conscious of the possibility of violations of Articles 9 and 85.”
Spokesperson Oh answered, “Clearly, one of them is lying.” “Who is lying?” He said, “President Yoon Seok-yeol and Candidate Kang Yong-seok were accused of violating the Public Official Election Act yesterday, so it is necessary to reveal the truth clearly and clearly through investigation. It is deplorable that the president is busy taking care of the economy and people’s livelihood, and the controversy surrounding local elections has arisen,” he urged.