Gominjeong: "Does Lee Junseok not know when to join and when to step back..."

"Yoon, to avoid becoming a puppet like Park Geun-hye, must stand up on his own"

Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, and Lee Jun-seok, the party leader, are posing with a birthday cake for Yoon on the afternoon of the 4th at Jeolm-eum Street in Seomyeon, Busan. Photo by Yonhap News.

[Asia Economy Reporter Kang Juhee] On the 5th, Go Minjung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, criticized Lee Jun-seok, the leader of the People Power Party, saying, "Does he not know when to step in and when to step back?" and pointed out, "Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, should come forward with his full name."

On the same day, Go shared an article on her Facebook about Yoon and Lee resolving their conflict and campaigning together in Busan, saying, "The party was taken over by Chairman Kim Jong-in, the field was taken over by Leader Lee Jun-seok, and the election was taken over by the candidate's wife, Kim Geon-hee," she said.

She said, "Lee Jun-seok, who said the party leader is not a subordinate of the candidate. But the party leader is also not the candidate's regent," "The feelings the public has toward candidate Yoon Seok-yeol are a betrayal of the government that trusted and appointed him, anger that tries to arrest anyone like when he was a prosecutor, ignorance in all areas including diplomacy, labor, youth, and women, and incompetence swayed by all sorts of people," she said.

Ko Min-jung, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, is giving a greeting speech at the inauguration ceremony of the Special Committee on Social Welfare held at the National Assembly on the afternoon of the 15th of last month. Photo by Yonhap News

She continued, "If he does not want to fall into the fate of being someone's puppet like Park Geun-hye, he has no choice but to rise up on his own. He must be able to see who is using him and who is sacrificing for him," and argued, "What candidate Yoon must find is himself."

She added, "I sincerely hope that Yoon Seok-yeol will come forward with his full name, not as Kim Jong-in's Yoon Seok-yeol, Lee Jun-seok's Yoon Seok-yeol, or Kim Geon-hee's Yoon Seok-yeol."

Meanwhile, the Democratic Party disparaged the fact that Yoon reconciled with Lee, with whom he had conflicts, and that Kim Jong-in, the former emergency committee chairman whose joining the People Power Party's election committee was uncertain, decided to join as the overall election committee chairman, calling it "the leadership of Yoon Seok-yeol, the People Power Party candidate, who cannot decide anything alone."

In response, Kim Eun-hye, spokesperson for the People Power Party's election committee, wrote on Facebook on the 5th, "'Politics' and 'governance' are different. From Lee Jae-myung's side, the People Power Party must look strange no matter how you look at it," and responded, "'Like Lee Jae-myung's Democratic Party,' they could just follow orders smoothly, but instead of cumbersome negotiations, they could have just 'rammed it through,' yet they insist on dialogue, persuasion, and waiting."