Song Unsuk, the interim leader and floor leader of the People Power Party, criticized reports suggesting that former leader of the National Innovation Party, Cho Kuk, is being considered for a special pardon on Liberation Day, calling it “the worst political pardon.”
During a floor countermeasure meeting at the National Assembly today (August 8), Song criticized the Lee Jae-myung administration for attempting to pardon Cho Kuk, a “disgraceful power criminal.”
He further claimed that individuals, including Professor Jung Kyung-shim, convicted of private equity fund-related offenses, such as using undisclosed information for investment and purchasing stocks under someone else’s name, as well as Choi Kang-wook, who assisted with college admission irregularities related to Cho Kuk’s family, were also included in the list for pardon.
Song expressed strong condemnation, claiming this action reflects the misguided perception spread by figures like Kim Eo-jun that “the Cho family has no faults,” moving beyond mere political bargaining.
Song also criticized the Democratic Party’s second commercial law amendment and the push for the “Yellow Envelope Act,” labeling it as “arbitrary legislative overreach that further prompts industries and companies to move away from Korea.”
He strongly urged the Lee Jae-myung government and the Democratic Party to halt their anti-business, anti-economic, and anti-public legislative enforcement immediately, engage in sufficient discussions with the business community and opposition parties, and proceed with the proper legislative correction process.
Regarding the government’s removal of loudspeakers facing North Korea following the Lee Jae-myung administration, Song urged it to make every effort to alleviate public security concerns and called for the immediate resumption of TV and radio broadcasts to North Korea and the reinstatement of the loudspeaker installations.
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