Enter 2022-02-14 17:45 | Edit 2022-02-14 17:45
People’s Power has launched an offensive once morest Lee Jae-myung, the Democratic Party’s presidential candidate, by releasing a past photo of him smoking in a restaurant.
In a photo posted on their SNS on the 14th by Lee Ki-in, a member of the same party as Kim Woong People’s Power National Assembly member and Seongnam City Councilor, Lee and his party were enjoying a dinner at a restaurant. In the photo, Lee was exposed holding a cigarette in his hand or biting it in his mouth. Candidate Lee served as Seongnam Mayor from 2010 to 2018, and the People’s Power estimated that this photo was taken in April 2014. This means that candidate Lee smoked in a restaurant during the mayor.
Lee Jae-myung’s photo of him smoking in a restaurant released
Rep. Kim Woong wrote, “I did it even if I was told not to do it here (smoking in restaurants),” he wrote. It was aimed at Democratic Party officials who criticized the photo of People’s Strength candidate Yoon Seok-yeol with his feet on a train seat while wearing shoes, accusing him of “having no public morals.”
As the photo spread, among netizens on the same day, Lee’s past remarks that he did not drink and smoke were re-examined. Previously, on December 8, last year, candidate Lee posted his 20th web autobiography on Instagram, titled ‘How did you not go wrong?’ Candidate Lee argued in this post, “Unlike what boys usually do, I didn’t drink or smoke.” Then, as for the reason why she did not deviate from the ‘boyfriend days’, she said, “It was because she had a mother who loved her abundantly.” Rep. Lee Ki-in also sarcastically said, “I didn’t drink and smoke because of my mother, but now do you smoke?”
“Senior Lee Jae-myung poured alcohol into his shoes, so he took a one-shot” once more
At the same time, the interview with ‘News N View’ by Ahn Jin-geol, director of the People’s Livelihood Economic Research Institute on March 15, 2018, was also on the cutting board. Director Ahn and Candidate Lee are alumni of Chung-Ang University Law School. Director Ahn recalled this candidate and told the media, “(When I was an undergraduate), I remember the dizzy and friendly feeling of pouring a bottle of soju into the shoes worn by Mayor Lee Jae-myung during the MT of the department.” . It is said that Director Ahn drank the alcohol that was filled in the shoes of this candidate. Netizens showed reactions such as “Gapjil drinking culture”, “Dirty”, and “It’s scary.”
In relation to Candidate Lee’s smoking in restaurants, the people’s power was criticized as “obviously illegal and moral hazard of local government heads.” Hwang Gyu-hwan, a spokesperson for the People’s Power Election Headquarters, commented on the same day, “According to the National Health Promotion Act, 150 square meters or more from December 2012, 100 square meters or more from January 2014. “It is impossible to confirm the area of the restaurant, but if it is more than 100 square meters, it is clearly illegal for this candidate to smoke.”
“The head of the local government who should encourage the establishment of the law … should reveal the circumstances of smoking and apologize”
He continued, “Even if it was a restaurant of 100 square meters or less following making a hundred concessions, it was literally a ‘special’ period to induce voluntary adaptation. However, the head of the local government, who should be inducing and encouraging the establishment of the law, once more overshadows the purpose of the law and smokes in public places.”
“Candidate Lee should be honest in front of the public and apologize to the public regarding how the smoking was done in the restaurant in the photo and, if true, whether it was a violation of the law,” he said.
Meanwhile, on June 27, 2013, Candidate Lee shared an article titled ‘Smoking Enforcement at 9366 Public Facilities in Seongnam City’ on his Twitter account and posted an article saying, “Now, be careful when smoking in public places.”
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