Kyungnam University professor Kim Geun-sik, who served as the head of the People’s Power Strategic Vision Office, told President Moon Jae-in with ten days left in his term, “It’s the first time in my life that a leaving president makes such harsh criticisms once morest the new president every day.”
Professor Kim said on Facebook on the 29th, “It wasn’t like that at the Moon-Yun meeting just a month ago. It’s very inconvenient to admit to the Yongsan relocation, set a reserve fund, and continue to criticize politics right before you leave. This is not ‘good enough’,” he said.
“Are you openly campaigning to gather Democratic supporters ahead of the local election?
Professor Kim said, “I don’t want to be forgotten, but I want to remain as an ‘unforgettable’ person.” “In a conversation with anchor Sohn Seok-hee, he said ‘it’s okay’, but not once, but twice in succession. I don’t understand anything other than political intentions,” he said.
He continued, “I am a person who is trying to talk to me because of my prudent personality, but I don’t usually do this.” “Is his transfer to Gwanghwamun communication and Yoon-elect’s transfer to Yongsan not working? This is contradictory.”
Professor Kim said, “In the retirement interview, it is ‘deserved’ to have a small meeting to review and evaluate one’s five-year term, and to summarize achievements and shortcomings. It should be,” he said.
He continued, “If the elected president has already made a decision and the current government agrees to the transfer, the outgoing president has the hope that the Yongsan era will start well, and if he wants to make a request, the president-elect will overcome the concerns raised by some and overcome them well. A positive word to the extent of wanting to go out is ‘deserving’,” he emphasized.
Professor Kim said, “I don’t know when or where Secretary Tak Hyeon-min (Blue House) will ask me, but if I had to offer a last word to President Moon, who was obsessed with blatant political remarks until the end of his term, ‘Please show me a beautiful exit'” .
Previously, President Moon responded directly to the Blue House people’s petition once morest the relocation of the presidential office, saying, “It is questionable whether it is appropriate to pursue a serial relocation of the Ministry of National Defense, the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the diplomatic missions of the foreign minister. We are working hard to make sure that doesn’t happen.”
In a special interview with former anchor Sohn Seok-hee, which was aired on JTBC on the 26th, President Moon said, “I think the new government’s (president) office relocation plan is not very good,” and “I think it is dangerous.”
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