Osangjin Refutes Election Fraud Claims in Election Commission Video, Closes SNS Due to Malicious Comments

Some Conservatives Flock to Oh Sang-jin's Social Media
and Flood It with Malicious Comments

Former MBC announcer Oh Sang-jin, who appeared in a video by the Central Election Commission refuting allegations of election fraud, has switched his social media service (SNS) account to private due to attacks from malicious commenters who appear to be hardline conservatives.

On the 26th, posts began appearing one after another on various online communities stating that Oh Sang-jin changed his SNS, which was previously public, to private. This was because some hardline conservatives launched a "comment attack" on his SNS after it was recently revealed again that Oh Sang-jin appeared in the Central Election Commission's video last year refuting election fraud allegations.

Last year, a video of Osangjin appearing in the Central Election Commission. Screenshot from an online community

The controversial video was produced by the Central Election Commission to refute the "shape memory paper" controversy. "Shape memory paper" is a term coined after stiff ballots without any fold marks were found. Those raising election fraud allegations argued that it is unreasonable for ballots, which pass through many hands from voting to counting, to remain stiff, claiming this as evidence of election manipulation.

In response, the Central Election Commission explained that the way voters fold ballots varies, and due to the process of unfolding and organizing ballots at the counting center, as well as storage periods, fold marks on ballots may become somewhat less visible over time. Oh Sang-jin conveyed similar content in the Central Election Commission video. In the video, he stated, "Ballots use a special material with a function that allows the paper to recover to its original state after being folded to prevent paper jams during sorting," and added, "The discovery of many ballots without fold marks bundled like stacks of money cannot be considered evidence of election result manipulation."

However, the Central Election Commission has since deleted the video. The Commission stated, "(The video) was part of our response to numerous complaints about 'ballots having no fold marks,' posted to mean that 'ballots use a special paper with relatively good resilience,' but after posting, it caused misunderstandings that shape memory paper was used as ballots, so the video was taken down."

As this video recently became a hot topic again, some netizens flocked to Oh Sang-jin's personal SNS. They left multiple mocking comments on photos of food he posted, such as "Wow, looks delicious. Was it made with shape memory special material by any chance?" and "Did you use shape memory to flatten the food? If paper can be flattened, this might be possible too."