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News summary on the way home from work, Subsletter Evening.
President Yoon Seok-yeol's wife Kim Gun-hee's actions are controversial, but today (15th), President Yoon explained and refuted the controversy on his way to work by using the expression "Because it's the first time I'm president...".
At this point, the argument that a public assistant organization should be created, including the resurrection of the second annex, is also gaining considerable persuasive power.
Kim Gun-hee's Bong-ha behavior sparked controversy
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On the same day (13th), President Yun Seok-yeol's wife, Kim Geon-hee visited Bonghama Village in Gimhae, Gyeongsangnam-do, to pay tribute to the grave of former President Roh Moo-hyun and to take care of Kwon Yang-sook.
At this time, acquaintances accompanied him, and rumors circulated about one of them as a shaman, but the presidential office explained that he was an adjunct professor of dance at Chungnam National University.
Professor Kim is said to have served as the managing director of Cobana Contents, and Cobana is an exhibition planning company that Mrs. Kim has been running since 2009, and has been virtually closed since the inauguration of President Yoon.
Professor Kim served as the head of the Living Culture and Arts Support Division for President Yoon, and served as an advisor to the Social Welfare and Culture Subcommittee in the transition committee. .
Earlier last month, she said that she accompanied Kim when she visited Guinsa Temple in Danyang, North Chungcheong Province.
Controversy continues until today (15th) as to whether it is correct to bring an acquaintance to the public activities of the president's wife.
Democrats brought up controversy
Let's start with the opposition's offensive.
Yesterday, Democratic Party spokeswoman Jo Oh-seop criticized at a written briefing, saying, "If a private acquaintance helped her with her activities as the president's wife, this would also lead to controversy over the slander." Similar criticism continued today.
The Democratic Party floor leader pointed out at a non-captain meeting, "President Yoon promised to abolish the second annex and to help (Mrs. Kim) quietly, but Mrs. Kim is taking a broad stride. It is causing problems without distinguishing between construction and construction." They asked me to choose between having a quiet help in the back or building a proper support system.
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Although President Yoon Seok-yeol promised to abolish the Second Affiliate Office and quietly help the internal affairs of the country, controversy is rising as First Lady Kim Gun-hee takes a rampant move.
(…) President Yoon and Mrs. Kim are unaware of the seriousness of the situation.
Mrs. Kim and her surroundings are causing problems every day without distinguishing between construction and construction.
Even the Kovana staff, whom Kim served as her representative, was officially protected and finished her visit.
Going as the president's wife can only be viewed as an official move.
The qualifications of the attendant must not be acquaintances or friends.
Persons attending the official schedule of the presidential couple should be carefully selected only by those who fit the purpose of the event.
President Yoon has to choose between the two.
He has to choose whether he wants the people to focus on quiet help, as promised during the presidential election, or whether he will build the second annex right now and build a proper assistant system.
I urge you to properly present the principles of Mrs. Kim's actions in front of the people so that no further problems arise.
Park Ji-won, former director of the National Intelligence Service, appeared on MBC radio's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focus' and reiterated the argument, "How can the president and his wife have a private life?
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The first lady, Kim Gun-hee's ancillary room must be made, but why not?
How well did you go to Bongha?
But the person who accompanied him there is a problem.
(…) How do the president and his wife have a private life by creating the second annex?
It is good to manage these things thoroughly publicly and systematically, I was right.
President Yoon "Because I'm the first president"
On the way to work for President Yoon, questions about Mrs. Kim poured in.
When a reporter said, "There is an opinion from the political circles to create a second annex," President Yoon said, "Because it's the first time I've been president..."
"Because it's my first time as a president, there are things I can't do as the president's wife, figuring out how to share this, official and unofficial. I'll think about it," he replied.
In response to a reporter's question, "The Democratic Party criticizes the companions of acquaintances for being dishonest," he answered, "Isn't Bonghama Village a place that all citizens can go to?"
That said, there isn't much of a problem.
Also, about the acquaintance, he said, "I am an old Busan friend of my wife who knows me well. (Mrs. Kwon) seems to have brought a lot of bread and other things she likes, but (acquaintance) seems to have guided me to a house that is good at that kind of thing in Busan," and accompanied me. The background has been explained in a relatively specific way.
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◇ Reporter: As the schedule of Mrs. Kim increases, there is an opinion to create a second annex.
◆ President Yoon: Well, yesterday, Bonghama Village was also scheduled for an undisclosed schedule, but I know it was reported.
And I don't know what.
Because it's the first time I've ever been a president, there are things I can't do as the president's wife, not knowing how to share this, official or unofficial.
It's been a while since I started figuring out how to organize this.
As soon as we enter the public opinion, we will think about this part step by step.
◇ Reporter: There is a controversy about the fact that the company employees who accompanied Mrs. Kim were hired to the presidential office while accompanying her on schedule.
◆ President Yoon: Well.
There is no official training or secretarial team, so I can't go alone, so what...
But how...
Please tell me how.
◇ Reporter: (Mrs. Kim's) Accompanying an acquaintance is being criticized by the Democratic Party as being nonsensical.
◆ President Yoon: Since the election, I heard a lot of such talk.
The man in the photo in the press is an old Busan friend of my wife who I know well.
So, probably, when I went to see Mrs. (Kwon), I think I took a lot of my favorite bread or something like that, but I think Busan guided me to a house that is good at that kind of thing.
So, it seems like we went together because we had a lot to hear, but isn't Bonghama a place everyone can go to?
Passport referring to the second annex, etc.
In the passport, while defending against the Democrats' offensive, opinions are being actively expressed about the revival of the second annex or the management of the fan cafe.
This is because fan club problems are also emerging, such as photos taken over the weekend in the presidential office being released through the fan club.
Former People's Power lawmaker Lee Eon-joo appeared on TBS radio's 'Kim Eo-jun's News Factory' and said, "The role of the first lady itself cannot be absent, but the subject of management right now is a bit vague. I think it would be better to do it,” he said, referring to the necessity of the second annex.
Party Association Chairman Cheon Haram Sun Cheon-gap, who was appointed as the party innovation member, said on CBS Radio, "It is not something to criticize too much in itself just because someone you have a personal relationship with went with him." I said
◆ Cheon Haram: It is something anyone can do to go to Bonghama Village to pay a visit to former President Roh Moo-hyun.
◇ Moderator: How do you view the fan club problem?
◆ Chun Haram: It may have a fan club, but Kim Gun-hee cannot manage it.
She's there and she thinks she has to take her hand off her completely and draw her a line.
She is a fan club president, and there is someone like Kang Shin-wook, a lawyer who uses very harsh words.
For such a person, I think it is right to keep a complete distance.
Representative Lee Jun-seok also said on KBS Radio's 'Choi Kyung-young's Strongest Current Affairs' about the controversy over the leak of photos through a fan cafe, "I'm starting to think that it should be sorted out once." It can also cause problems."
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These photos are first circulated through the official channels, and then they are used later in the fan cafes, and there are no problems with these photos, but in fact, in the case of the First Lady's movement or activity history, it can cause considerable safety and national security problems.
It should be made public when it is needed and through the necessary channels.
For example, wherever you go, it is leaked to a private space in real time, and if you do this, there may be security issues or other problems.
As for the problem, I think it would be good if we discussed it internally so that there were no problems with safety and security.
Need a public management system?
In a SBS poll released five days ago, to the question of 'What kind of action do you think the wife of President Yoon Seok-yeol should take, Kun-hee Kim?', 60.6% answered, 'It is better to focus on President Yoon's help.'
Only 31.3% of the respondents answered that it is better to do public activities as the president's wife.
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In another poll conducted earlier this month with the same question, 66.4% answered 'We should quietly focus on domestic help,' and 24.2% said 'We should take an active role like the previous first lady'.
The difference is bigger than the SBS poll.
When the allegations of false academic records arose during her presidential election, she apologized to the public and bowed her head deeply saying that she would only do 'quiet help'. .
Besides, her public activities are inevitably difficult to see as 'private realm'.
As well as meeting the ex-president's wife.
There are also views that the role of the second annex has been partially revived because the presidential office is already partially involved in the activities of Mrs. Kim.
a piece of the day
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The Russian military offensive is continuing in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine, and this is a photo of the village of Pribiliya, Luhansk Oblast, being devastated by indiscriminate shelling by Russian troops.
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