Lee Jun-seok and Jung Seong-ho “Let’s stop now”
On the 11th, Shinsegae Group Vice Chairman Jung Yong-jin posted a post on a social networking service (SNS) with the words ‘○○’ reminiscent of ‘Destruction’ on a boycott poster with ‘No Jung Yong-jin’ and an article about North Korea’s missile launch in the East Sea. The annihilation controversy continued. It’s been half a day since it was known that he would not make a ‘destruction’ remark. In the political circles, aftershocks continued over the subject of the Starbucks boycott and responsibility for the ‘Destruction Challenge’.
●Jung Yong-jin who posted the poster for ‘No Jung Yong-jin’
Vice-Chairman Jeong said on his Instagram on the same day, “Boycott Jung Yong-jin, I’m not going. He uploaded an image with the phrase ‘I will not buy it’ and wrote ‘Please refer to it for work’. Then, after posting a capture of a breaking news article titled, ‘North Korea fires an estimated one ballistic missile into the East Sea at 7:27 a.m.’, a symbol of ‘○○’ was added. Then, a series of comments surmised that the word to fill in the blank was ‘Deokgong’. After that, as criticism intensified, Vice Chairman Chung deleted the post related to the North Korean missile launch within two hours. The comment on the poster post of ‘No Jung Yong-jin’ was also changed from ‘Please refer to it for work’ to ‘Who should refer to it for work’.
Posts from politicians confirming the Starbucks boycott followed. Democratic Party lawmaker Jin Seong-joon wrote on Facebook the day before, “I don’t think I’ll go to Shinsegae Department Store, E-Mart, or Starbucks.” Kim Yong-min, a member of the same party, posted a picture of himself holding coffee he bought at a local cafe on Facebook on the same day, and added the hashtag ‘farewell’, saying, “Coffee is the best coffee in the neighborhood.” On the other hand, National Assembly Vice Chairman Jeong Jin-seok, who belongs to the People’s Power, responded by posting a picture of him drinking coffee with a Starbucks tumbler on Facebook on the same day. When a netizen asked, ‘Did you have morning coffee?’, Vice Chairman Jeong replied, “Yes ☆ I drank coffee.”
The ruling and opposition parties hand over responsibility for the annihilation challenge
The opposition and opposition parties postponed their responsibilities to each other even over the subject of responsibility for the ‘Destruction Challenge’. Kim Jae-won, the Supreme Councilor of the People’s Power, said on MBC Radio that day, about Yoon’s participation in the annihilation challenge, “I think that Candidate Yoon also participated once because the former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk said that Vice Chairman Jeong Yong-jin was a person like Yoon Seok-yeol.” “Why is there such a controversy? I don’t know,” he said. Former lawmaker Na Kyung-won, who conducted the ‘Destruction Challenge,’ posted on Facebook on the same day, “The Democratic Party is raging over the Destruction Controversy. Hypersensitivity reaction. They do not hesitate to make hateful expressions and brand them.” On the other hand, Kang Byung-won, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, said on KBS radio that day, “I never thought I would hear such a story from the mouth of a CEO who leads a large company and from one of our presidential candidates.” did,” he criticized.
Meanwhile, People’s Power Representative Lee Jun-seok and Democratic Party candidate Lee Jae-myung’s closest aide, Rep. Jeong Seong-ho, expressed their intention to stop the annihilation controversy. President Lee said on CBS Radio that day, “Politicians belonging to our party are burdened with a relay campaign, so I asked him to refrain.” On the same day, Rep. Jung suggested on Facebook, “I wish the controversy over the annihilation and the boycott would stop.”
Reporter Kim Min-do