Democratic Party, its spokesperson dance to a cellist's lie about the president
The allegations raised by Kim Eui-kyeom, a National Assembly member of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea, that President Yoon Suk-yeol drank with Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon in a bar in Cheongdam-dong, southern Seoul proved false.
A female cellist said to be the source of the allegations confessed to the police on Thursday that she lied to deceive her boyfriend.
Kim revealed in the National Assembly on Oct. 24 that Yoon and Han drank with about 30 lawyers of Kim & Chang in a Cheongdam-dong bar from the night of July 19 until the dawn of the following day. He even played record files of a phone conversation between the cellist and her boyfriend that he claimed he got from a YouTube channel loyal to the party.
Han strongly denied the allegations and the presidential office said Yoon was not there at the time. But the party leadership still incited the suspicions.
It called for the presidential office to disclose details on Yoon's whereabouts after work.
Its chief policymaker, Kim Sung-whan, called the allegations "the second most shocking scandal (after one that led to the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye), if they are true."
The party also mentioned the creation of a task force to find truth and the appointment of a special counsel to investigate the allegations.
Admittedly partisan fights in Korea are so desperate, and yet the Democratic Party carried the allegations to...
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