“Investigating the act of helping one’s daughter is not in line with the principle of proportional investigation.”,
Hong Jun-pyo, Mayor of Daegu City, former President Moon Jae-in. / Photo=HankyungDB,
, ‘Mayor Hong Jun-pyo criticized the prosecution investigating suspicion of preferential employment of his daughter by the son-in-law of former President Moon Jae-in as “excessive investigation” on the 19th. He implied that the case was not significant enough for investigation considering it involves a former president. Mayor Hong even expressed it as “over the top” using a Gyeongsang-do dialect word meaning absurd and despicable.’,
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, ‘On Facebook that day, Mayor Hong stated, “I pointed out that investigating the family of Cho Kuk during the previous presidential candidate nomination was excessive investigation and was criticized as ‘Cho Kuk Su-hong'” and “it is a principle in usual family crime investigations to investigate only one or two representative individuals, but because the Cho family investigation involved investigating the entire family, I pointed out that it was excessive investigation, leading to me being slandered.”‘,
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, ‘The term “Cho Kuk Su-hong” mentioned by Mayor Hong refers to the controversy where he made comments criticizing the Cho family investigation during the presidential candidate debate in 2021 by saying, “Was the Cho Kuk investigation improperly done? No. They conducted an excessive investigation. There should be no investigation that is overdone. They even touched on issues related to Cho’s brother, cousin, and daughter. It turned into a political affair.” This led to controversy as some political figures took inspiration from Cho Kuk’s supporters, who chanted ‘Cho Kuk protection,’ and created the mocking term “Cho Kuk Su-hong” by adding Mayor Hong’s name to it.’,
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, ‘Mayor Hong stated, “This investigation of former President Moon Jae-in is the same logic as the argument that the investigation of Cho Kuk was excessive” adding that “if it is an investigation into the corruption of a former president, then an investigation commensurate with that should be conducted. There are many acts of betrayal that are close to high treason, such as whether there were state secrets in the USB given to Kim Jong-un at Panmunjom, or whether abandoning the nuclear power plant would hinder future plutonium production and benefit North Korea. Ignoring such things and focusing on investigating the act of helping one’s daughter does not align with the principle of proportional investigation.”‘,
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, ‘He further commented, “I have no reason to take the side of former President Moon, and I don’t mind if he goes to prison, but even if he is sent there, shouldn’t he be sent for charges that befit his status?” and “For a person who has been harshly suppressing us by labeling us with a frame of national misconduct, it is not in line with social justice for that person to peacefully spend their old age in Yangsan.”‘,
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, ‘On the 16th as well, Mayor Hong argued on CBS Radio’s ‘Park Jae-hong’s Gamble’ that “investigating the act of financing one’s daughter’s living expenses is absurd” and “there are issues related to the nuclear power plant disposal and whether state secrets were on the USB given to Kim Jong-un at Panmunjom. It would be more convincing to analyze and investigate through the National Archives. When capturing a former president, I hope they follow the principle of proportional investigation.”‘,
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