Na Kyung-won, floor leader of the main Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party (official name is "Liberty Korea Party"), said the same thing as the so-called "expert" journalist on Yonhap News TV (cable channel 23). She said that fast tracking the bill would lead to a ruined leftist country like Venezuela! What nonsense! What a coincidence!
Here is an article in Maeil Business News in Korean about her saying this.
Kim Moo-sung, another Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party member, was speaking at a rally and said that people should take dynamite and blow up the presidential compound. This is the same party that had an opposing parliamentarian Lee Soek-ki jailed nearly a decade (still in jail) for sedition for making similar comments. The Korean intelligence agency even used a paid informant as a witness.
Here is an article in The Hankyoreh about him doing this.
A former floor leader of this Ultra Right Wing Party is under suspicion of using his influence to get his daughter to become an employee at Korea Telecom, a formerly state-run company. The former chairman of Korea Telecom and executives have been arrested for illegally employing 12 children of high ranking or powerful people. The former leader, Kim Sung-tae, denies any knowledge of this. Korean prosecutors have yet to question him, probably due to fears that the Ultra Right Wing Party will protest.
Korea Times: Ex-KT chief arrested over hiring irregularities
This Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party is called a "conservative party" by most media.
There are not many English articles in Korean publications on the crimes Korean prosecutors, Supreme court justice, and judges committed. One used rulings on cases to make deals with a former president. Some suppressed evidence and declared a very guilty former prosecutor and his con-man accomplice innocent due to lack of evidence when there was concrete proof. And on and on.
South China Morning Post: South Korea’s former chief justice Yang Sung-tae indicted in abuse of power scandal
So, they are trying to reform the justice system and the Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party says this is a leftist plot and against democracy. And the media gives the Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party all the air time they want.
Oh, I almost forgot. The minority floor leader and the leader of the Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party are both former prosecutors. The leader, Hwang Kyo-ahn worked as a henchman under the imprisoned former president Park Keun-hye as Minister of Justice (ironic) and hints in front of right wing supporters that she should be released from prison because she didn't do anything wrong.
The guy blatantly lies stating that the Moon administration is a dictatorship and leftist. He is being investigated for covering up the Saewol Ferry disaster as requested by an independent commission set up to investigate the cover up by the former president Park Keun-hye's administration. Someone ordered contents of the blackbox to be altered, blocked investigations, destroyed evidence, lied, and committed other criminal acts in order to hide the facts from the public. Almost 300 students who drowned needlessly because they were told to stay in the cabins while the ship capsized. The students survived in the air pockets for days before dying. This Hwang Kyo-ahn is fighting with the parents of the students that died.
The Ultra Right Wing Opposition Party political base is mainly in the southeast region of Korea, and most people over 60. The old remember the sufferings of the Korean war and are instinctively opposed to anything related to communism and socialism. The southeast region of Korea is where Park Chung-hee was from, and the region was heavily developed during his regime, leading to many rich supporters.
The southeast region of Korea (Kyungsan Province) does not get along with the southwest region (Cholla Province). This sort of history probably eventually led to the violent and illegal suppression of demonstrations against the dictator Chun Do-hwan. He ordered special forces to quell the demonstrations. They raped and killed people. So, it turned into a riot and mass bloodshed.
The ultra right wing faction still contend without any evidence that North Korea was behind the demonstrations and that the demonstrators were led by North Korean agents.
In the past, even recent past during Park Keun-hye's administration, innocent people, usually liberal or progressive, have been framed for being North Korean agents.
The ruling party's base is in the middle aged and younger people who are against the dictatorships of Park Chun-hee and Chun Do-hwan. So the ultra right wingers are creating false news about Moon being a dictator in order to erode the ruling party's base. They are also calling the Moon administration, the Moon "regime". Good luck!
Friday, May 3, 2019
Wednesday, May 1, 2019
Korea's Next Parliamentary Elections Are In April 2020
The ultra right wing party is already preparing. As they have under previous progressive administrations, they are boycotting parliamentary votes on laws and emergency budgets in the name of democracy.
They have announced that the present administration is a dictatorship (from a party that supports former dictator Park Chung-hee, his daughter, the imprisoned Park Keun-hye, and associated with former dictator Chun Do-hwan), and that they will hold nationwide public protests to stop the administration's dictatorship (without detailing what the administration did) till the day protesters tear down the fence at the presidential Blue House. Sounds like sedition to me. Supposed to be illegal, except in certain instances where politicians are the ones agitating, it seems.
Some male party members shaved their heads in protest. If female members start shaving their heads, or male members cut off something else, I might start to consider the sincerity of their protests.
Print and broadcast media have started to add negative phrases in all sorts of unrelated coverage.
For example in an article in Business Korea, it reported the following.
"Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has been steadily landing orders for nuclear power plants from overseas countries despite the Korean government’s ill-advised nuclear phase-out policy."
Why did they insert "the Korean government’s ill-advised nuclear phase-out policy"? Aren't they supposed to be unbiased and objective? A lot of Koreans think it is a good policy. We are a small country on the edge of a peninsula (only takes a few hours to drive anywhere) and if an accident happens, it affects the whole nation, not just an area. The chances of an accident happening are probably less than one in a thousand, but is the risk worth taking? Definitely no.
If Kim Jong-un wants to drop the bomb on South Korea, he'd better check the wind direction! Blow all that stuff towards his house, and make it radioactive for decades.
On TV, channel 23, a supposed "expert" was talking about protests in Venezuela, inserted that "fast tracking the bill to reorganize voting districts (to end the gerrymandering that the previous ultra right wing party imposed when they had the majority) would lead to a leftist government like in Venezuela" and states that the administration is at fault. I fail to see the logic.
The bill to fast track the propose was passed after the ultra right wing party refused to even submit an alternative proposal for years. The ruling party and the ultra right wing party stand to lose seats under the proposed reorganization. The ruling party made concessions to the minority opposition parties that stand to gain seats. The ultra right wing party do not want to see the voting districts reorganized and is the only party against the bill. What a cry baby!
I think they know they are going to lose a lot of seats in the next parliamentary elections, and are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to survive (with the backing of the rich and powerful).
They used to have a majority in the parliament for decades. The ultra right wing have the backing of around 30%, no matter what they do. I know some of their supporters, they are pretty senile and unreasonable. Most are rich or wannabee rich types. Fortunate thing most of their supporters are dying of old age, and other diseases.
Wrote a lot this time! Must be frustrated. It's hard to watch the news or read anything without seeing this stuff.
They have announced that the present administration is a dictatorship (from a party that supports former dictator Park Chung-hee, his daughter, the imprisoned Park Keun-hye, and associated with former dictator Chun Do-hwan), and that they will hold nationwide public protests to stop the administration's dictatorship (without detailing what the administration did) till the day protesters tear down the fence at the presidential Blue House. Sounds like sedition to me. Supposed to be illegal, except in certain instances where politicians are the ones agitating, it seems.
Some male party members shaved their heads in protest. If female members start shaving their heads, or male members cut off something else, I might start to consider the sincerity of their protests.
Print and broadcast media have started to add negative phrases in all sorts of unrelated coverage.
For example in an article in Business Korea, it reported the following.
"Doosan Heavy Industries and Construction has been steadily landing orders for nuclear power plants from overseas countries despite the Korean government’s ill-advised nuclear phase-out policy."
Why did they insert "the Korean government’s ill-advised nuclear phase-out policy"? Aren't they supposed to be unbiased and objective? A lot of Koreans think it is a good policy. We are a small country on the edge of a peninsula (only takes a few hours to drive anywhere) and if an accident happens, it affects the whole nation, not just an area. The chances of an accident happening are probably less than one in a thousand, but is the risk worth taking? Definitely no.
If Kim Jong-un wants to drop the bomb on South Korea, he'd better check the wind direction! Blow all that stuff towards his house, and make it radioactive for decades.
On TV, channel 23, a supposed "expert" was talking about protests in Venezuela, inserted that "fast tracking the bill to reorganize voting districts (to end the gerrymandering that the previous ultra right wing party imposed when they had the majority) would lead to a leftist government like in Venezuela" and states that the administration is at fault. I fail to see the logic.
The bill to fast track the propose was passed after the ultra right wing party refused to even submit an alternative proposal for years. The ruling party and the ultra right wing party stand to lose seats under the proposed reorganization. The ruling party made concessions to the minority opposition parties that stand to gain seats. The ultra right wing party do not want to see the voting districts reorganized and is the only party against the bill. What a cry baby!
I think they know they are going to lose a lot of seats in the next parliamentary elections, and are pulling out all the stops in an attempt to survive (with the backing of the rich and powerful).
They used to have a majority in the parliament for decades. The ultra right wing have the backing of around 30%, no matter what they do. I know some of their supporters, they are pretty senile and unreasonable. Most are rich or wannabee rich types. Fortunate thing most of their supporters are dying of old age, and other diseases.
Wrote a lot this time! Must be frustrated. It's hard to watch the news or read anything without seeing this stuff.
