The Democratic Party of Korea decided to report Kim Moon-soo, the People Power Party's presidential candidate, to the police on charges of violating the Public Official Election Act on the 23rd. The claim is that Kim's criticism of Lee Jae-myung's remark about 'coffee cost 120 won' is considered to be a publication of false facts, asserting that the candidate depicted self-employed individuals as 'greedy business exploiters'.
The Democratic Party's election campaign committee's clean election legal support group noted, 'Kim has published false facts by selectively quoting parts of candidate Lee's remark about the 'coffee cost 120 won'' and stated that they would report it.
Earlier, on the 18th, Kim asserted on Facebook, '(Candidate Lee) viewing self-employed individuals as greedy business exploiters while claiming to revitalize the economy is absurd' and added, 'I hope candidate Lee immediately apologizes to the self-employed and small business owners who struggle day by day.'
In response, the support group countered, 'During candidate Lee's term as Gyeonggi Province governor, while cracking down on illegal businesses in the valley, he made the statement while looking for ways to protect the public's right to access the valley and support the livelihoods of those targeted by enforcement.' They stated, 'With just over two weeks before the presidential election, it is manipulated to assert that candidate Lee 'viewed self-employed individuals as greedy exploiters' without any...
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