與 “No, repeat the controversy as it was six years ago”
12 members of ‘Like Society’ requested to be referred to the Ethics Committee
After 12 lawmakers from the opposition hard-liners first-line group, ‘Like Hoe’, were demolished for displaying paintings satirizing President Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife Kim Gun-hee at the National Assembly Members’ Hall, a storm continued in the political world. Even within the Democratic Party, there was criticism that “it does not match the original mission of the National Assembly,” and the power of the people demanded that the Democratic Party refer the member to the party ethics judge.
On the morning of the 10th, Democratic Party lawmaker Cho Eung-cheon said on SBS radio, “Basically, the National Assembly is a place where conflicts in the streets and plazas are brought in and melted down like a melting pot through dialogue and compromise.” act,” he criticized. Rep. Cho, a member of the Special Committee for State Affairs Investigation into the Itaewon Halloween Disaster, said, “I heard that this exhibition was designed to criticize and satirize the government’s lack of responsibility for the Itaewon disaster. It wouldn’t have been,” he asked, asking, “Does the victim’s family really want an exhibition like this?”
In the political world, criticism was also raised that this controversy was a repeat of the case in which former Democratic Party lawmaker Pyo Chang-won held a satirical exhibition criticizing the current situation at the National Assembly Members’ Hall in 2017 and put up a work depicting then-President Park Geun-hye in a nude state, which caused controversy. At the time, former Congressman Pyo received a 6-month disciplinary action from the Democratic Party’s ethics judge.
Ho-young Joo, representative of the people’s power, said at the in-house countermeasure meeting that day, “It talks regarding freedom of expression as a work of art, but it is a low-quality political poster, and it is full of character insults and slander.” He said, “In 2017, a former lawmaker Pyo received a 6-month suspension of duty qualification from the party ethics judge for a similar incident,” and “I request that 12 lawmakers be judged.”
Members of the Like-Hoe held a press conference once morest the demolition the day before and continued their refutation today. Yang Won-young, a member of the Democratic Party, wrote on Facebook, “If you express the political prosecution hound that much, it is at least a decent satire. What more do you want?” . Rep. Kim Nam-guk of the same party also said on MBC radio, “The whole nation has come to know that it will pass without knowing because of excessive loyalty (to President Yoon).” Rep. Kim belonged to ‘Like Hoe’, but was not listed on the list of organizers of this exhibition.
Reporter Kim Ji-hyun jhk85@donga.com
