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As the election campaign begins in earnest and the presidential election draws near, the words of the big bipartisan candidates are getting harsher.

As the level of criticism of the opponent rises, even primary colors are pouring in.



Reporter Kim Ki-tae pointed it out.



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Candidate Jae-myung Lee digs into the 'controversy over witchcraft' surrounding candidate Yoon Seok-yeol and his spouse Kim Kun-hee.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: Lee Jae-myung is not a magician, but asks the people for directions.

He will take the path the people tell him to go, not the path the shaman tells him to go.

Everyone.]



Candidate Seok-Yeol Yoon compared his passport, which criticized his 'remarks to investigate corruption' as 'political retaliation' to Hitler in Germany.



[Yoon Seok-yeol / People's Power Presidential Candidate: Do you know fascists like Hitler and Mussolini?

It's the best in the world to put these people upside down.

This is the communist technique that people like this do.] It is a



brawl that relies on slander without a clear basis.



Cow thieves and the sick party were also poured with primary colors.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: I keep wanting to take off the mask like anyone else.

That wouldn't work.

There is a saying that needle thieves become cow thieves.]



[Yoon Seok-yeol/People's Power Presidential Candidate: This party was elected as the presidential candidate by the ruling party knowing this clearly.

How sick is this party?

Isn't that right?]



Criticism towards the opposing camp beyond the candidates also grew stronger.



[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party Presidential Candidate: There are political forces that have been driven out by those slender candles carried by our citizens.

They are coming back after only 5 years.]



[Yoon Seok-yeol/People's Power Presidential Candidate: 'People come first.'

I did.

Who is first now?

Only the KCTU and the KTU first?]



The promise of negative restraint has already been disregarded, and as the reins of the candidates from both parties have already been loosened, voices of concern over the short-term presidential election are growing.



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, video editing: Choi Jin-hwa)