News summary on the way home from work, Subsletter Evening.
Student in the 1980s, a politician born in the 1960s.
It is the '86 group', and it is also a core force of the Democratic Party.
Choi Jae-sung, former senior presidential secretary for political affairs, who belongs to this '86 group' left politics saying, "I'm quitting politics as of today."
On the day that former chief Choi announced his retirement from politics, Song Young-gil, the eldest member of the 86 group, former Democratic Party leader, officially announced his participation in the Seoul mayoral primary and continued his preparations for running for office.
Song Young-gil, registered as a candidate for tomorrow's primary
Former Democratic Party Chairman Song Young-gil will officially register as a candidate for the Seoul mayoral race tomorrow (7th).
Former CEO Song explained that although we decided to register today, it would take longer to prepare the registration documents.
Former CEO Song moved his address to Seoul on the 1st and announced his candidacy for mayor of Seoul on the 1st, saying, "There is no election or strategic nomination without objective basis in my head." He started preparing for the presidential election in earnest by having luncheons with some lawmakers in the Seoul area.
The Democratic Party is holding a public call for candidates for regional group heads until tomorrow (7th), and lawmaker Park Jumin and former Minister of SMEs and Startups Park Young-seon are being mentioned as candidates to be registered as additional opponents of former representative Kim.
Jaesung Choi "
A new era requires a new calling"
The day former CEO Song Young-gil ran for mayor of Seoul, Jae-seong Choi, former chief of political affairs at the Blue House, announced his retirement from politics. That's it.
Choi announced his retirement from politics through an article that began with "I will quit politics as of today", and he wrote a retrospective on his political career and the reasons for his retirement in short sentences.
Regarding the reason for his retirement from politics, he said, "I thought that my calling could be greedy. I have decided to put down my vocation, which I have been carrying heavily until now. A new era requires a new calling," he said. I'm not a politician," he said emphatically.
As of today, I will quit politics.
I have been in politics for the past 20 years.
When I was in the student movement, I wanted to create a just world.
I believed that there was a vocation of the times that I had to do for our society and the people.
He entered politics with the aspiration to put that belief into practice.
(..) I looked back on my mind 20 years ago when I ran for the first time.
It occurred to me that my calling could be greed.
I have now decided to lay down my vocation, which I have been burdened with so far.
A new era requires a new calling.
(..) I assure you, I am no longer a politician.
(..) I will quit politics, but if there is something small that will benefit the world, I will look for it.
- Source: Facebook
Choi, who was in the 84th grade, was a former president of the Dongguk University student body, served as a central standing member of the Seo Chongryon (Seoul Regional Student Association), and was elected as a candidate for the Uri Party in the 17th general election in 2004 while campaigning for democracy in Namyangju, Gyeonggi Province.
He was elected by moving his constituency to Songpa-eul, Seoul, in the 2018 by-election after running down to the 19th.
Kim Young-chun "The era of life politics has come"
Last month, former Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Kim Young-chun, who served as president of the Korea University Student Council, announced his retirement from politics. I don't want to walk down that path any more."
Stop Politics
Times are changing.
This is the first impression I felt during this election.
Now, it is not the era of grand discourses such as democracy, unification, and the overthrow of vested interests, but the era of life politics.
What is more important to the people is solving the problem of living and living and happiness in everyday life.
(..) It's time to conclude.
I am not running for mayor of Busan this year.
Basically because of my anguish about my political role.
Throughout the presidential election, I had a period of fundamental thought about whether I should continue to work on the political front.
If the era of big discourse that made me jump into politics is over and the era of life politics has come, I asked myself if I was the right politician for it.
I don't want to walk the path of a professional politician who runs for only an election.
So I thought it wouldn't be right to hand over the chance to other challengers.
I would like you to view it as a problem of an individual who has been in politics for too long, not a generational problem.
- Source: Facebook
Former Minister Kim served as the student body president of Korea University in the 81st class, and after entering politics as a secretary to the late President Kim Young-sam during the time of the president of the Unification Democratic Party in 1987, he served as a member of the 16th and 17th National Assembly.
He went to his hometown of Busan and struggled while shouting to break down regionalism, but was elected in Busan Jingap during the 20th National Assembly and became the third term, serving as the first Minister of Oceans and Fisheries in the Moon Jae-in government.
Last year, he ran for mayor of Busan during the 4/7 by-election, but was defeated.
Song Young-gil, who brought up the '86 resignation theory' during the presidential election
As two of the representatives of the Democratic Party's '86 group' retire from politics, it is interesting to see if the early trend will spread.
'86 Group' entered politics in large numbers through 'young blood transfusions' during the Kim Dae-jung administration.
The reality is that those who took the lead in democratization during their college days were sometimes referred to as 'symbols of vested interests' and 'naenambul'.
Even moral superiority is being shaken.
So, we are being challenged by the theory of generational change. During the presidential election, when the Democratic Party and candidate Lee Jae-myung failed to gain the support of the 2030 youth generation, the '86 resignation theory' came to the surface as the agenda for political reform.
At that time, it was Rep. Song Young-gil, who was the leader of the party, who ignited the '86 resignation theory'.
Please see the announcement on January 25th.
▲ First, that Song Young-gil will not run for the next general election.
- There are voices criticizing inside and outside the party that the 586th generation has become the vested interest.
- What we want is a better world, not a vested interest.
Now that we have become seniors, it is time to go out into the wilderness again.
We must give up the vested interests of our own constituency and make concessions and open up space so that young politicians can take on challenges and move forward.
Former CEO Song announced that he would not run in the next general election, and former representative Song's Yonsei University classmate Woo Sang-ho responded by reaffirming his promise not to run in the general election.
Generational change theory seemed to be gaining momentum, but that was it.
So, in the midst of criticism that it was an election repertoire, Song decided to run for mayor of Seoul, and the '86th generation' came to stand at the center of the conflict within the party.
86th group's eldest brother being attacked
There is strong opposition from within the Democratic Party against Song Young-gil's candidacy for mayor of Seoul, but comrades who were once classified as the '86 group' within the party together with Song began to attack first.
Rep. Woo Sang-ho, a 40-year-old activist comrade and a classmate from Yonsei University, said, "Song's declaration of candidacy eventually failed all the cards." "I protested against it, and lawmaker Min-seok Kim, also of the '86 group,' said, "The rider who gave the descent signal declared that I was climbing alone." We need an explanation and an apology to the public for what we did,” he criticized.
Former chief Choi Jae-seong, who announced his retirement from politics today (6th), was directly hit by the idea of being elected mayor of Seoul, saying, "It is not a job, but actually self-support (run for yourself)."
If the 'leaving out' flow of '86 Group' continues, former CEO Song Young-gil, the eldest of '86 Group', would be isolated or embarrassed. There is.
Pro-Moon Party "Juan Muchi, Nambul Naero"
Democratic lawmakers also joined the criticism of Song Young-gil.
There is a think tank called 'Democracy 4.0 Researcher' in which members of the Democratic Party's pro-Moon family participate, and 13 of the 50 lawmakers belonging to the think tank issued a statement today (6th) against Song's candidacy for Seoul mayor.
▲ 'Democracy 4.0 Research Institute' inauguration ceremony, November 2020. yunhap news
The title of the statement is "I am opposed to the naero-nambul-style run for Seoul mayor, which has no cause or value," said Song, who resigned after taking responsibility for his loss in the presidential election. I am protesting by writing an expression.
Take a look at part of the admission letter.
“I oppose the naero-nambul-sik candidacy of Seoul mayor, who has no cause or value, as former CEO Song Young-gil, who resigned after taking responsibility for his loss in the presidential election.”
Former CEO Song Young-gil made a political declaration not to run for the next general election, referring to the theory of the resignation of the 586 generation during his presidential election.
However, before the ink of the resignation declaration dried up, Song Young-gil's misjudgment that he would run for mayor of Seoul, the most core area of this local election, which will be a test for the Democratic Party's reflection and innovation, could easily turn the entire Democratic Party into arrogance and arrogance. There is a high risk of falling into the abyss and leading to a catastrophic defeat in the local elections.
It is a shameless act to wrap the presidential election defeat as “we lost, we fought well (we lost)” and to force the candidacy of Seoul mayor with the logic of “absence of character”.
People will not understand this.
It would be considered arrogant.
(..) Former Chairman Song Young-gil urges the Democratic Party to act responsibly and not to confuse the ranks of reflection and renewal.
13 directors (Do Jong-hwan, Kang Byung-won, Ko Young-in, Kim Young-bae, Kim Jong-min, Maeng Seong-gyu, Shin Dong-geun, Lee Kwang-jae, Jeong Tae-ho, Choi In-ho, Choi Jong-yun, Han Byeong-do, Hong Young-pyo)
After the '86 Group' and Seoul area lawmakers, even mainstream pro-moon lawmakers, the largest faction in the party, protested, and the rupture within the Democratic Party surrounding Song's candidacy is growing.
There are many interpretations that the intention of former Gyeonggi Governor Lee Jae-myung, who was a presidential candidate, played a role in Song's candidacy, so some view it as the beginning of a factional conflict.
Until the local elections in June and the presidential primary in August, a new faction struggle between the pro-myung (pro-Lee Jae-myung) and the non-myung (non-Lee Jae-myung) group may appear, and the theory of the election of former representative Song Young-gil could be the prelude to that struggle.
a piece of the day
Today (6th) is Korean food.
This is a photo of Cheongwan mowing held in Donggureung, Guri-si, Gyeonggi-do, and officials from the Donggureung management office are cutting the pampas grass at the Geonwonneung.
Geonwonneung, the tomb of King Taejo Lee Seong-gye, is said to be the only tomb covered with silver grass among the royal tombs of the Joseon Dynasty.