After examining Yong Hye-in’s asset filings, Kim Kyung-yul says she is exceptionally good at spotting opportunities

Kim Kyung-yul said Yong Hye-in’s asset filings showed a politician who knows how to seize an opportunity. The former People Power Party emergency committee member made the comment while discussing Yong’s refusal to give up her proportional-representation seat after being nominated as minister of gender equality and family.

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She is very good at spotting opportunities.

Appearing on Dong-A Ilbo’s YouTube program “Hwang Hyung-jun’s Contempt of Court” on Sept. 1, Kim said his accounting background led him to examine Yong’s declared assets. He said Yong moved in 2025 to Sadong in Ansan’s Sangnok district and listed “for actual residence” in the filing’s notes. Kim pointed out that the area is represented by Democratic Party lawmaker Yang Moon-seok.

Kim said Yong posted on social media at the time in a way that suggested she intended to put down deep roots there, but the address disappeared from her 2026 filing after she moved again. He described Yong as someone who had “lived very well” in the sense of repeatedly identifying political openings. Yong entered the 21st and 22nd National Assemblies through Democratic Party satellite parties, an unusual feat that Kim said had happened twice.

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They went to find their mom and dad.

The program also examined People Power Party infighting. The party recently invited former President Park Geun-hye to a lawmakers’ retreat and visited former President Lee Myung-bak. Kim likened the moves to children seeking out their parents and said they appeared aimed at extending the political lives of current leaders. He questioned whether such appeals would attract moderate voters or young people.

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Other than trying to realize their dream of extending their political lives, there is no other way to explain it.

Kim and former lawmaker Keum Tae-seop also discussed the party’s decision to elect constituency chiefs first in about 30 districts without incumbents, rather than in all 254 districts as Jang had initially proposed. Kim said lawmakers had opposed the broader plan almost unanimously, while Keum suggested Jang may have lost leadership. Kim also focused on Kim Nam-joon, the new Democratic Party publicity committee chair, portraying him as a close aide to President Lee Jae-myung with growing practical influence.

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Hasn’t he now lost his leadership?