[Exclusive] Minsaengdang's First Recruited Talent is 'Jeon Du-hwan Tracker' Im Han-sol

Recruitment of Former Sungkyunkwan University Professor Nam Jeongsuk and Others Related to 'Me Too'

Im Han-sol, former vice representative of the Justice Party, is holding a press conference regarding the 40th anniversary luncheon commemorating Chun Doo-hwan's December 12 military coup.
[Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] The Minsheng Party has recruited former Justice Party Vice-Chairman Im Han-sol, known as the 'Jeon Du-hwan tracker,' and former Sungkyunkwan University professor Nam Jeong-sook, who made a Me Too (Me too) disclosure. These are the first talents recruited since the merger of the Bareunmirae Party, Alternative New Party, and Democratic Peace Party.

On the 6th, a key official of the Minsheng Party said, "We are announcing the recruitment of former Vice-Chairman Im, the Jeon Du-hwan tracker, and former Professor Nam, who was the first to make a (Me Too) disclosure in the academic community," adding, "(Former Vice-Chairman Im) is a young person who took the lead in upholding the value of justice and also has symbolic significance in Honam."

Last November, former Vice-Chairman Im filmed and released a video showing Jeon Du-hwan, who is suffering from Alzheimer's disease, playing golf with acquaintances at a golf course in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province. He also reported on a commemorative luncheon held with the main figures of the December 12 military coup.

This is a photo of Jeon Du-hwan playing golf with acquaintances at a golf course in Hongcheon, Gangwon Province, released by former Justice Party Vice Representative Im Han-sol. [Image source=Yonhap News]

In the video filmed by former Vice-Chairman Im, when asked whether he gave the order to shoot during the May 18 Democratic Uprising, Jeon said, "Why should I be directly responsible? Why would I have given the order to shoot? I wasn't even in a position to give such an order. Would someone without command authority in the military give orders?" When asked when he would pay the over 100 billion won in fines and high taxes, he replied, "You pay it."

Former Vice-Chairman Im left the Justice Party last January. He had been active as a member of the Seodaemun District Council in Seoul and hoped to run in the general election but did not receive party approval. In the Justice Party, an incumbent elected official must obtain a resolution from the Executive Committee to run for another public office.

Former Professor Nam Jeong-sook is the person who revealed that she was sexually harassed by Professor Lee, then Dean of the Graduate School of Cultural Convergence at Sungkyunkwan University, in 2014 when she was a non-tenure track professor at Sungkyunkwan University. As a result of this case, Professor Lee was sentenced in the October 2018 appellate trial to four months in prison with a two-year probation and ordered to complete 80 hours of sexual violence treatment programs. Former Professor Nam was recognized by the Korea Workers' Compensation and Welfare Service as having suffered sexual violence at the university as an industrial accident.