Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, is entering the courthouse to attend a first-instance trial related to perjury and obstruction of justice in the public election law trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the afternoon of the 10th. Yonhap News,
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, ‘Park Jeong-hoon, a lawmaker of the People Power Party, revealed on the 17th at the National Assembly a phone call recording file that served as the basis for the perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party. Park claims that this file proves the allegations against Lee. ‘,
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, ‘The overview of the case is as follows: In a 2018 Gyeonggi Province gubernatorial election broadcast debate, Lee Jae-myung claimed that he was falsely accused of imitating a prosecutor and received a final fine of 1.5 million won in a related case. Subsequently, the prosecution indicted Lee in October last year on charges of perjury and accused Kim, a witness who had attended the trial, of perjury for allegedly asking him to commit perjury in a pre-trial phone call.’,
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, ‘The key point of the perjury trial is whether Lee’s request to Kim constitutes perjury. While Kim claims that he was asked to commit perjury, Lee states that he only asked him to testify as he remembered. Their positions are conflicting.’,
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Park Jeong-hoon, a lawmaker of the People Power Party, is holding a press conference at the National Assembly on the 17th and releasing a recording file related to the perjury and obstruction of justice charges against Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party. News1,
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, ‘In the recording released by Park, Lee tells Kim, “It would be helpful if you could explain that this was a highly politically motivated case where I was mainly targeted.” He also mentions, “The prosecution needs to protect me, and the city (of Seongnam) does too, and KBS (Korean Broadcasting System) as well. It was an incident where all the vested interests coincided with me, so it would be helpful if you could relate it to me.” This is Park’s argument that this constitutes inducing perjury. Park emphasized in a meeting with reporters that asking someone who claims “I don’t know” or “I don’t remember” to make statements in this manner is clearly inducing perjury.’,
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Lee Jae-myung mentioned “as it is…”
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, ‘However, in the recording, Lee also states, “Just as it is now, time has passed,” and “Please think about it again. ” In relation to this, Lee attended the first trial of the perjury case on January 22 and stated, “Upon reviewing the contents of the recording, I felt that it was dangerous for Kim to speak about the nuances of perjury, so I repeatedly said, ‘Tell it as you remember, as it is. Do not speak as if you saw what you did not see’.””,
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