Yoon Suk-Yeol’s Wife Once Again the Subject of Controversy in Race for the Next ROK Presidency
Who would have thought that of all things that Yoon Suk-yeol’s wife is what will probably cost him getting elected President of South Korea? This is another major unforced error by Yoon’s wife:
Comments made by Kim Keon-hee, the wife of main opposition People Power Party (PPP) presidential candidate Yoon Suk-yeol, have backfired as some #MeToo victims and gender experts demand an apology.
Korea Times
Kim Ji-eun, who worked as a secretary for the former South Chungcheong Province Governor An Hee-jung and who exposed the fact that she was sexually assaulted by him, issued a statement via the Korea Sexual Violence Relief Center, Monday.
“I heard her sarcastic comments on TV where she was speaking about my case. Her words are baseless and contradict the court’s judgment regarding the guilty verdict,” Kim said in the statement, urging the presidential candidate’s wife to deliver a sincere apology for her “reckless remarks.”
“Your thoughtless words resulted in secondary victimization and internet users are now harassing me with malicious comments,” she said.
The Supreme Court handed down a sentence of three years and six months to former Governor An on the charge of sexual assault by exploiting his position of power at work against Kim Ji-eun, Sept. 2019. The case was viewed as a symbolic event in the #MeToo movement here at the time.
In the recordings of Kim’s private phone calls, revealed on Sunday by the local broadcaster MBC, Kim was heard saying, “Conservatives make sure they pay. They never use someone free of charge.”
Kim was also heard claiming that #MeToo victims reveal sexual assault allegations because they didn’t get paid, referring to several sex scandals within the ruling democratic bloc. She went on to say that she felt sorry for the former governor and she and her husband were on An’s side.
In a letter sent to MBC to clarify her position, the presidential candidate’s wife said that she made some inappropriate remarks while criticizing some people who were involved in sexual exploitation and she was sorry for that.
You can read more at the link, but the recording and releasing to the media the private conversation is actually illegal in South Korea. So it will be interesting to see if anyone gets charged with this.
lol.. ‘an unforced error’?
“Kim was also heard claiming that #MeToo victims reveal sexual assault allegations because they didn’t get paid … and she and her husband were on An’s side.”
Either
(1) Kim is condoning sexual assault by An or;
(2) Kim is condoning An using prostitutes?
Not a good look either way.
There is also Option (3):
… not an either or but an and for An.
The side with the keys to the Blue House effectively controls the prosecutor’s office and what they investigate.
South Korean voters should revel in the pigsty they’ve created for themselves.
And by now we can all see the leading contenders to replace Moonpie are all cut from the same cloth. “Laws (and good manners) are for the little people.”
Most rules are only for the little people.
If you accept wine and garden parties for the elite while the country is in lockdown… or you accept the ruling class taking their private jets to meet in exotic locations and scold you over your carbon footprint while plotting new taxes… or you accept banks reporting your small dollar transactions to the IRS while corporations and the rich can afford to offshore income… etc.
If you accept this, you are a little person.
If you defend it, you are still a little person but you are also a suck-up and a lackey with no gain… so you are also a fool.
Little people deserve what they accept.
So look at what you accept and ask yourself…
Are you a little person?