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People Power Party unleashes barrage of insults at Yong Hye-in

From Hankyoreh · () Korean

Translated from Korean and summarized by DistantNews. Read the original for the full story.

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  • People Power Party leaders publicly attacked Yong Hye-in, nominee for minister of gender equality and family, and urged President Lee Jae-myung to withdraw the nomination.
  • Party officials criticized Yong’s two proportional-representation election victories through a satellite party led by the Democratic Party and questioned the Basic Income Party’s political affiliations.
  • They also demanded the withdrawal of Kim Seung-won’s nomination and warned that forcing the appointments could hasten an early lame-duck period for the Lee administration.

The People Power Party leadership turned its fire on Yong Hye-in at a public meeting on the third, using language that went well beyond ordinary political criticism. Party leader Jang Dong-hyeok called her “a typical example of the left’s hypocrisy and left-wing business” and demanded that President Lee Jae-myung immediately withdraw her nomination as minister of gender equality and family.

A typical example of the left’s hypocrisy and left-wing business.

· Jang Dong-hyeokThe People Power Party leader criticized Yong Hye-in and called for President Lee Jae-myung to withdraw her nomination.

Jang also targeted Yong’s path to the National Assembly. She won proportional-representation seats twice through a satellite party created under the Democratic Party’s leadership, a record Jang said warranted more than the cancellation of her ministerial nomination. He argued that Yong should resign her parliamentary seat and that the Democratic Party should bear responsibility for helping elect her twice.

Senior Supreme Council member Shin Dong-wook cited media reports alleging that underground groups linked to the Labor Party and youth labor organizations had trained activists for a communist revolution and placed them in public organizations. He argued that the Democratic Party’s former student activists could not have been unaware of those groups. He accused the Basic Income Party of concealing its true intentions, using the Democratic Party as a “host,” and entering mainstream politics through it.

Yong Hye-in, cutting ties is a matter of intelligence.

· Jang Dong-hyeokJang used the phrase while demanding that the president abandon the nomination.

Kim Jae-won, another senior council member, referred to Yong’s 2018 slogan, “No Work, Yes Money,” and applied it to state subsidies. He claimed the Basic Income Party receives 1.1 billion won a year in government funding, then called Yong a “political parasite” living off the state and said she would not resign her parliamentary seat. Policy chief Lim Yi-ja demanded that both Yong and Kim Seung-won withdraw immediately, warning that forcing through the appointments would confront the public and accelerate the Lee administration’s early lame-duck period.

A political parasite living off the state.

· Kim Jae-wonKim attacked Yong over her alleged reliance on state funding and her political record.
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Originally published by Hankyoreh in Korean. Translated, summarized, and contextualized automatically by DistantNews, with a note on how the source frames the story. Not individually reviewed before publishing. How this works.

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