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On the other hand, some of the candidates for the minister have been controversial about their past.

It was confirmed that Park Bo-gyun, a candidate for the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism, said that Koreans are sensitive to not eating Japanese seafood because of concerns about radiation, and Ho-young Jeong, a candidate for the Minister of Welfare, wrote that marriage is the most effective medicine for cancer treatment and that having many children is a great person.



Reporter Ki-tae Kim pointed this out.



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Park Bo-kyun, the Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism candidate Park Bo-gyun, who gave a lecture as a waitinglist for the JoongAng Ilbo at a seminar at an academic institution in 2014.



When Candidate Park talks about the North Korean nuclear issue, he mentions the sensitivity of Koreans and uses Japanese seafood as an example.



[Park Bo-gyun/Candidate for Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (2014, waiting for JoongAng Ilbo at the time): It has been three years since the Great East Japan Earthquake, but Koreans don’t eat Japanese seafood because they fear there is radiation.]



Compare it with the Japanese perception.



[Park Bo-gyun/Candidate for Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism (2014, waiting for JoongAng Ilbo at the time): Our Tokyo correspondent called and said that Koreans could not understand...

I don't have money in Tokyo, so I can't eat sashimi and sushi...

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I don't understand why Koreans don't eat them.]



Candidate Park explained, "It seems that Japanese seafood was mentioned in the process of consistently emphasizing North Korea's nuclear risk."



In a column written in December 2020, he introduced the SNS profile of then Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, which quoted a passage from the novel The Old Man and the Sea, and praised him for exuding charm in his indomitable life.



In the meantime, he wrote that Moon Jae-in's new world is a rough sea for Yun Seok-yeol, and the Wolsong nuclear power plant investigation is a marlin caught by fighting spirit.





In a column published in a newspaper in 2012 when he was a professor of surgery at Kyungpook National University Hospital, Jeong Ho-young, a candidate for Minister of Health and Welfare, wrote, "If you give birth, you are patriotic, and if you have three or more children, you are a great man." "The cure for cancer is marriage."



The Justice Party criticized it as "an absurd idea that only thinks of women as tools for childbirth."



Candidate Chung's side explained, "As a professor of surgery, I wrote this with a sad heart about the low birth rate."



(Video coverage: Yang Doo-won, video editing: Choi Hye-young, screen source: YouTube 'HallymHAS')