Opposition: "How can they calmly interfere with state affairs after martial law... It's chilling"
President Yoon Suk-yeol approved the appointment of former lawmaker Park Seon-young as the chairperson of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, a ministerial-level position, the presidential office announced on the 6th.
Chairperson Park served as a proportional representative lawmaker for the Liberty Forward Party in the 18th National Assembly and was a member of the Special Committee on Dokdo Territory Protection and the Special Committee on Inter-Korean Relations Development during her term.
She is currently serving as the chairperson of Mulmangcho School, an alternative school for North Korean defector children and youth that she founded, and ran for the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education in the 2018 and 2022 elections.
The opposition party criticized President Yoon's exercise of personnel authority. Kim Seong-hoe, spokesperson for the Democratic Party of Korea, said in a written briefing, "After plunging the entire nation into fear and chaos with illegal martial law and completely destroying the constitutional order, he is now calmly interfering in state affairs as if nothing happened," adding, "It is beyond absurd; it is chilling."
He continued, "Why is the appointment of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission chairperson so urgent in this situation?" and pointed out, "Is it because Park Seon-young, chairperson of Mulmangcho, posted on Facebook, 'In the Republic of Korea where those who disrupt the national flag run rampant, let's clean up and live,' a post reminiscent of the president's declaration of emergency martial law?"
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