Yang Hyang-ja, an independent lawmaker who declared the founding of the party 'Hope of Korea,' raised her voice by sharing a construction-related bribery case that occurred in her constituency, saying, "Now citizens must understand why Hyeonsan (Hwajeong I-Park) collapsed in Gwangju and why the Hakdong demolition site collapsed."
On the 30th, Yang posted on her social media service (SNS) a post titled "Gwangju politics rotten to the core," making this claim. This implies that corruption in the local political circles lies behind the construction accidents that occurred in Gwangju.
The article she shared reported that a member of the Gwangju Seo-gu Council is under police investigation on charges of receiving bribes worth hundreds of millions of won in exchange for construction contracts. Yang said, "Election candidates who tried to persuade me, the former regional chairman, by sending businesspeople with money envelopes, and when I sent them away with a sharp word, they went to my primary opponents and attacked them with schemes and plots. The Democratic Party, without a single investigation, expelled its member?who is also the only female constituency lawmaker outside the Seoul metropolitan area?without even informing the reason until now, based solely on their plots."
Yang, a former executive director of Samsung Electronics Memory Business Division, entered politics in 2016 through recruitment by then Democratic Party leader Moon Jae-in and was elected in the last general election. However, after the party's ethics committee decided to expel her due to allegations of sexual misconduct by an employee at her local office the following year, she voluntarily left the party. This is interpreted as her claim that the ethics committee's expulsion decision was based on scheming.
Yang said, "We need to understand why young people are leaving Gwangju, not returning to it, and even those who were here are leaving. I will work to completely eradicate absurdity, irrationality, corruption, and bribery through a political system where human moral decay cannot seep in."
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