Political Opposition Wants Parliament to Open Investigation into Itaewon Crowd Crush Disaster

It is pretty clear that the political opposition wants to form this committee so they can come up with findings to blame the Yoon administration for the crowd crush tragedy in Itaewon:

Rep. Yong Hye-in (L) of the Basic Income Party, Rep. Wi Seong-gon (C) of the Democratic Party and Rep. Jang Hye-yeong of the Justice Party submit a joint request to open a parliamentary probe into the Itaewon crowd crush at the National Assembly on Nov. 9, 2022. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

The main opposition Democratic Party (DP) and two minor progressive parties submitted a joint request Wednesday for a parliamentary investigation into the Itaewon crowd crush despite opposition from the ruling party.

The DP, the Justice Party (JP) and the Basic Income Party submitted the request to the National Assembly’s Bills Division on Wednesday afternoon, with an aim to have the request reported at a parliamentary plenary session scheduled for Thursday.

“We should clearly determine where the responsibility lies and come up with measures to prevent a recurrence by looking thoroughly into the accident, including its cause and measures taken before or after the tragedy,” the parties said in the request sponsored by 181 lawmakers.

The parties called for forming an 18-member special committee to oversee the probe and look into whether measures by government agencies were appropriate and whether there were attempts to minimize or cover up the tragedy.

Yonhap

You can read more at the link, but prosecutors already have an investigation going on that has led to a number of arrests and firings already.

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setnaffa
2 years ago

Now I wonder if the opposition party hired the people who pushed the others to their deaths?

Flyingsword
Flyingsword
2 years ago

Set, Most likely.

Korean Person
Korean Person
2 years ago

Now I wonder if the opposition party hired the people who pushed the others to their deaths?

So, I guess we have caught Dear Comrade Setnaffoving red handed trying to spread a conspiracy theory here in Korea.

Shame on him for trying to spread fake news, conspiracy theories and trying to manipulate things in Yoon’s favor.

It’s not enough for hime to spread those things in the USA that he has to do it here in our homeland.

This is the reason why the Koreans of the ROK Drop should exert all efforts to stop these MAGA scum from contaminating our homeland, Korea with this nonsense.

Mcgeehee
2 years ago

Consider this:

2,800 pedestrian deaths in Korea every year (a 30 yr average).

Where is the outrage? Why isn’t the president, prime minister, police chief, fire chief, district office, etc. impeached for pedestrian deaths?

Maybe they aren’t the government’s fault. Maybe this is a free society where citizens can exercise free will. Crazy concept, but maybe individual citizens expressing individual judgement were responsible.

Let’s say 100,000 kids rush to jump in a lake, and 150 die. Whose fault is it? Who’s to blame?

If you say the government, please explain your freedom-hating, left leaning, fascist loving, big government answer for all to see.  

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