Patriot Innovation Party Intensifies Attacks on Kim Yongnam... Kim Responds: "Jo Guk, Look at Your Own Faults First"

Innovation Party Urges 'Unified Candidacy in Pyeongtaek-eul'

"Kim Yongnam Is the Very Definition of a 'Bad Prosecutor'"

Continued Attacks Over 'Borrowed-Name Loan Company'

Kim Dismisses, Calling It "An Obsession With Spreading False I

As the People's Innovation Party has continued its attacks over the "borrowed-name private loan company" allegations involving Kim Yongnam, the Democratic Party candidate running for the Gyeonggi Pyeongtaek constituency in the June 3 National Assembly by-election, Kim countered by saying, "Look at your own faults first."

On the 26th, at SK Broadband Ginan Broadcasting in Jukbaek-dong, Pyeongtaek City, Gyeonggi Province, during the Pyeongtaek-si Election Commission-hosted candidate debate for the Gyeonggi Pyeongtaek Constituency National Assembly by-election, Hwang Kyoan of the Liberty and Innovation Party (from left), Cho Guk of the People's Innovation Party, Yoo Uidong of the People Power Party, and Kim Yongnam of the Democratic Party posed for a photo. Photo by Yonhap News

On the 27th, Kim's campaign released a statement asserting, "The People's Innovation Party has been mobilizing all of its party lawmakers for several days, obsessively inflating suspicions about Kim and spreading false information."

The campaign added, "They have even made outrageous remarks, demanding that the Democratic Party withdraw its candidate. It was to such an extent that Cho Seungrae, the Democratic Party's Secretary-General, rebuked them, saying, 'Take care of your own business first.'"

They continued, "We have really exercised patience again and again. Is there anyone among the people of Korea who does not know what kind of person Cho Guk, the People's Innovation Party candidate for Pyeongtaek, is? We hope you will examine your own faults first. Please consider for what charges you were convicted and served a prison sentence."

Previously, on the morning of the 27th, Lee Haemin, Chief of the Election Committee for the Innovation Party, held an emergency press conference at the National Assembly. Targeting Kim over the allegations of operating a borrowed-name private loan company, Lee urged, "The Democratic Party needs to act with swift decisiveness."

Lee stated, "The sense of disappointment in the democratic and progressive camp now unfolding in Pyeongtaek is spreading to other regions, as is shown by various data." He added, "At this point, the Democratic Party must quickly identify the root cause of this negative impact and act swiftly and decisively." He further expressed concern, saying, "This is because democratic citizens see in Kim the very image of the 'bad prosecutor' they once called upon to step down from the public square."

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