"It's not 'Biden', it's 'Blow it'."
"If Congress doesn't approve these punks, then Biden will be sold."
The whole world is noisy over President Yoon Seok-yeol's remarks.
Controversy over vulgar expressions and controversies in the national interest overlapped, and everyone with a mouth is in a situation where everyone is arguing with each other one word at a time.
The explanation of the presidential office was first focused on 'Biden'.
He said 'if it blows', not 'biden'.
The Korean government, which should focus on 'appealing the United States' to a situation in which the disadvantages of Korean electric vehicles have been put on fire due to the Inflation Reduction Act, may have been afraid of the consequences of vulgar expressions aimed at the US President and the US Congress.
Changing 'Biden' to 'Flying' naturally has the effect of making the meaning of the Korean 'National Assembly', not the US Congress, more natural in context.
If President Yoon's promise of a 100 million dollar donation at the Global Fund meeting is not fulfilled due to the disapproval of the budget by the Korean National Assembly, President Yoon himself will be 'sold out'.
So, it seems that President Yoon focused on explaining that he did not refer to President Biden as a 'sold out'.
At first, the explanation of the presidential office was bewildering.
The first was the inconvenience that it was not being copied.
I actually listened to the recorded video about ten times.
Five times, I watched the video with subtitles for the remarks, and the other five times I closed my eyes and focused on hearing the word 'fly'.
Five times it was heard as 'Biden', and the other five times as 'If it blows'.
Maximum 'Gukbong'
Is 'this XX' okay?
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Even if we accept the explanation from the presidential office, discomfort remains.
Kim Eun-hye, senior public relations chief, explained that the 'this XX' mentioned by President Yoon was aimed at the Korean National Assembly, not the US Congress.
In an instant, old memories overlapped.
It was a dinner party with an executive of the prosecution when I was in and out of the prosecutor's office.
The word 'that XX' came out of my mouth while putting the executive and a former prosecutor's officer on the cutting board and raising a fever for critical gossip.
The person I had been accusing of while sitting opposite me suddenly turned my back on me.
"Do you think that saying that makes you a better person?"
For me, who was accustomed to rough talk, this word has become a '鍮尺' about myself ever since.
There are still times when it is violated.
Judging from our sentiment that 'where you can't see, even swear at the country', President Yoon's 'this XX' can actually be overstated.
President Yoon must also be listening to the sound of 'XX' at numerous drinking parties.
However, this was not 'invisible'.
The president's every move gets the utmost attention wherever he goes.
That is why it is not enough to explain that it was a self-talk that was not conscious of the camera.
The part that expresses the National Assembly as 'this XX' seems to need an apology.
U.S. President Biden is known to have a temper that is irritable despite his gentle appearance, and is also known for swearing a lot.
Because of such a demeanor, there were many 'mistakes'.
Not knowing that the microphone was turned on, he once called a Fox News reporter 'stupid XXX', and at a press conference held after the mirror summit, a friendly CNN reporter asked him if he believed in Putin. I saw that you didn't understand, so you chose the wrong job." The inappropriate remarks that demeaned the other person were also captured on video.
When it comes to the level of 'mistake', Biden is at the top.
'Courage to apologize'
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The other is next.
President Biden immediately apologized after the two 'mistakes' mentioned above.
He called the Fox News reporter directly and apologized, and after making the troubling remarks to the CNN reporter, he got on the plane and soon got back down and apologized, saying, "I shouldn't have been flirting with you."
I'm usually stingy about Biden, but these two scenes were attractive enough.
After a quick apology, the controversy did not escalate and ended there.
President Yoon, who I watched closely during his time as a legal reporter, was an attractive prosecutor in his words and deeds, and he was outspoken.
After the change of status from 'prosecutor' to 'President', I don't think many people feel that 'charm' like I did before.
He may be because of the weight of the president's language.
The president's language, especially if it was a mistake, can only be undone by the president's mouth.
The head of public relations is not going to take his place.
We need to have the courage to apologize before it's too late.