2024-04-13 21:02:05
Han Dong-hoon, chairman of the People Power Party’s election committee, is appealing for support for Icheon City candidate Song Seok-jun at the ‘Save Icheon with the People Power’ campaign held on the streets of Jungni-dong, Icheon-si, Gyeonggi-do on the 8th. /Reporter Lee Deok-hoon
“Are you going to let me disappear like this?” (April 1)
“We are not dying, but the Republic of Korea is dying” (April 2)
In April, the message of Han Dong-hoon, Chairman of the People Power Party Emergency Response Committee, began to become more urgent and intense.
At the end of last year, in a desperate atmosphere of ’80-90 seats expected’, the composure of repeatedly emphasizing “victory” and not losing one’s smile even in March, while taking over as chairman, disappeared in the third and fourth quarters. At the last campaign rally a day before the general election, there were cries of “I feel wronged,” “I shed tears of blood,” and “I’m really just one vote short.” And the result was a crushing defeat in the general election.
It is known that behind Chairman Han’s change in attitude in April, as if he knew the outcome, there was an ‘expected number of seats survey’ conducted internally by the People Power Party from time to time.
According to Chosun.com’s coverage on the 13th, the expected number of seats for the general election shared by the People Power Party around the time Chairman Han took office in December last year was 80 to 90. ‘Seoul dominates 6 out of 49 seats’ independent market analysis report<조선일보 12월8일자 단독보도>Additionally, it is said that it was an estimate that combined the forecast that ‘a majority is not easy even in Busan’.
Lee Jun-seok, former representative of the People Power Party / News 1
It was around this time that former representative Lee Jun-seok said, “If I were to assume full power, I would be confident of winning 110 or 120 seats.” This meant that the situation was so bad that 110 seats would have been a good save.
Nevertheless, Chairman Han showed strong confidence in ‘victory’ immediately following taking office. Even in his declaration of not running on December 26, he said, “I will courageously devote myself to victory” and “I will do anything for victory, but I will not take the fruits of that victory.”
As the year changed, the first crisis came. On January 17, when Chairman Han made a surprise announcement that emergency committee member Kim Kyung-yul would run for office in Mapo-eul, Seoul, the President’s Office showed signs of discomfort.
(Seoul = News 1) Reporter Min Kyeong-seok = At the ‘Hidden camera operation OUT condemnation rally’ held on the followingnoon of the 27th in the area of Sejong-daero, Jung-gu, Seoul, hosted by the Liberty Unification Party, a large screen displayed a message calling for reflection on People Power Party Emergency Response Committee Chairman Han Dong-hoon and Emergency Response Committee member Kim Gyeong-yul. It appears on the table. 2024.1.27/News 1
That very evening, Committee Member Kim appeared on a broadcast and compared First Lady Kim Kun-hee to Marie Antoinette, saying, “The French Revolution exploded when Marie Antoinette’s extravagance and promiscuous private life were revealed.” The next day, Chairman Han said regarding the luxury bag controversy, “There was something for the public to worry regarding.”
The conflict began, and the conflict continued to intensify over the next few days through meetings between Chairman Han and the President’s personnel. On the 21st, a report came out saying, “The President has made up his mind (regarding Chairman Han’s resignation).” Within 30 minutes of this report, Chairman Han officially announced his intention to refuse to resign, and the next day, the conflict reached its extreme when Kim, the committee member who triggered the incident, said, “I haven’t changed.”
The extreme confrontation reached a turning point with the fire at Seocheon Market in South Chungcheong Province on the night of the 22nd. On the morning of the 23rd, Chairman Han departed to tour the fire scene, and the President’s Office, who received the report, immediately headed to the same location, thereby concluding the meeting. Both sides agreed on their schedules, and the situation was resolved when Chairman Han arrived at the scene 40 minutes early and greeted President Yoon.
President Yoon Seok-yeol visited the site of the fire at the Seocheon Special Market in South Chungcheong Province on January 23 and exchanged greetings with People Power Party Emergency Response Committee Chairman Han Dong-hoon. /News 1
Afterwards, the People Power Party built a new image and built up approval ratings. Crowds of people gathered wherever Chairman Han went. The expected number of seats according to the party’s own survey exceeded 100 at the end of January, and exceeded 130 in late February.
On February 25, candidate Jang Seong-min, a former presidential staff member, mentioned ‘160 seats.’ He appeared on a broadcast and said, “The Democratic Party is going to play as a special prosecutor for the first lady? Then, in the general election, from my perspective, the Democratic Party can go back and forth at the upper limit of 110 seats. “The People Power Party will be able to win 150 to 160 seats,” he said.
An hour following this remark was published in the article, a ‘notice to stop joining’ was issued in the name of Chairman Han. “The People Power Party is still far from being loved and chosen by the people and needs to work harder,” he said. “We ask you to refrain from making unfounded predictions, such as publicly exaggerating the expected number of seats in the general election.”
Jang Seong-min, former Presidential Office’s Future Strategy Planning Director / Yonhap News
In a situation where the opposition party came out with a ‘regime judgment’, it was good news that the general election structure of ‘President Yoon Seok-yeol vs. Lee Jae-myung’ was changed to ‘political newcomer Han Dong-hoon vs. Lee Jae-myung’. Chairman Han fought with Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, in surveys on the suitability of the next president, such as Newsis in February and joint survey by Yonhap News and Yonhap News TV in March, trading first and second place once each within the margin of error. In the first week of March, the expected number of seats fluctuated around ‘140’, and there was talk that a majority was in sight.
Han Dong-hoon, Chairman of the People Power Party’s Emergency Response Committee, gives a street greeting at the Jungang Market Intersection in Sujeong-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do in March. /yunhap news
That was the peak. Large-scale negative news began to emerge one following another.
On March 10, former Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-seop, a suspect in external pressure in the investigation into the death of the Marine Corps, was appointed ambassador to Australia. Former Ambassador Lee was banned from leaving the country by the High-ranking Public Officials Crime Investigation Office, but he appealed to the Ministry of Justice, had the ban lifted, and took up his post in Australia.
On the 14th, Hwang Sang-moo, Senior Secretary for Civil Society in the President’s Office, made a statement regarding the ‘Hoe knife terrorist attack’. He pointed out an MBC reporter who was eating with him and said, “MBC, listen carefully,” referring to an incident in 1988 in which soldiers from the Information Agency swung a knife and seriously injured reporter Oh Hong-geun, who was the head of the social affairs department of the Joongang Economic Daily.
The results of a public opinion poll conducted by Embrain Public at the request of YTN on whether the ‘Lee Jong-seop and Hwang Sang-moo’ controversy had an influence on 1,003 adult men and women across the country over two days from March 24th to 25th. /News 1
The shadow of the keywords ‘non-communication’ and ‘high pressure’ began to cover the People Power Party once more. Seoul citizens’ approval rating for the People Power Party fell by 15 percentage points in just one week. On the 17th of the same month, Chairman Han made a public request to the President’s Office to decide on the two men’s future actions, but there was no immediate response.
Former Senior Secretary Hwang resigned belatedly on the 20th, and former Ambassador Lee returned to Korea and resigned only on the 29th.
Meanwhile, this time, the ‘controversy over President Yoon’s price of green onions’ arose.
If you listen to the entire conversation at the time, there was no major problem with the President’s perception of prices, but MBC cut out a single part of the President’s Sympathy Report video, which was news two days ago, and posted it on the Internet with the effect that ‘the President has no idea regarding prices.’ This video became a huge hit to the opposition party. ‘Devastating performances’ were held at each opposition party’s campaign rally. A week later, KTV hurriedly created and uploaded a ‘fake news response video’ containing the entire situation, but it was already too late.
The so-called ‘big wave breaking’ video posted on Facebook reels by People Power Party candidate Suwonjeong Lee of Gyeonggi Province on the 26th of last month. As controversy arose over its inappropriateness, it was hastily deleted. (SNS capture) /News 1
The party also made a mistake that added fuel to the fire. People Power Party candidate Lee Soo-jeong aroused the anger of voters by saying, “The price President Yoon mentioned is the price of a single green onion,” without properly knowing the circumstances of the remarks on the price of green onions.
The opposition party’s ‘massive offensive’ continued until election day. Opposition supporters even carried green onions to the polling place.
On April 1, President Yoon spoke to the public for 51 minutes through a TV discourse on medical reform despite the party’s dissuasion. He said, “The number of 2,000 people is the minimum number of reinforcements calculated through meticulous calculation by the government.” Although the possibility of conditional negotiations on the size of the increase was left open, criticism arose from the opposition, asking, “Why are you so obsessed with 2,000 people?” and from the medical community, there was an outcry that “it’s stuck.”
On the morning of the 1st, doctors, patients, and their guardians are watching President Yoon Seok-yeol’s public address on medical reform at a university hospital in Seoul. /News 1
Immediately following the statement, Chairman Han tried to resolve the increase in troops by 2,000 people by saying, “It is not an issue that can be buried in numbers because it is a problem directly related to the health of the people,” but it was not enough to cover up the president’s remarks. Taking advantage of public dissatisfaction, pro-Ya YouTubers attracted views with incendiary videos linking the number ‘2000’ to shamanism. Hundreds of thousands of people watched such videos on each channel, and secondary processed content through capture also spread.
By this time, the expected number of seats analyzed by the party had fallen below 100. Now, the goal is a ‘majority’, but Chairman Han said, “Please protect the constitutional amendment line” and “The country will be ruined.”
The final election result is 108 seats. From the early morning of the day following the election, voices came out from the President’s office saying, “It’s Han Dong-hoon’s fault,” and voices from the party saying, “It’s the president’s fault.”
Han Dong-hoon, chairman of the People Power Party’s emergency response committee and general election committee, is leaving the central party headquarters in Yeouido, Seoul on the 11th following announcing his resignation as chairman following the results of the general election. 2024.4.11 Reporter Lee Deok-hoon
At his resignation conference that day, Chairman Dong-Hoon Han resigned from his position following answering “I am responsible” to the question, “Is the results of the general election jointly the responsibility of the President’s Office and the ruling party?”
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