/Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk Facebook
On the 8th, Shin Jang-sik, spokesperson of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, responded to criticism that former Justice Minister Cho Kuk had been found guilty in the second trial and had still founded a party and ran in the general elections , saying, “So what are you telling us to do? “So, you’re saying Cho Kuk should just sit down, do push-ups, take pictures of his back muscles, post them, and live like that?”
Speaker Shin appeared on SBS Radio’s “Kim Tae-hyun’s” political program this day and was asked: “How do you see a defendant who was found guilty from the second trial entering politics, forming a political party and wearing a distinctive?” “I think people will have mixed feelings about it,” he said.
Spokesman Shin said, “There are some people who think that (former Minister Cho) has no other way of doing things other than politics” and “Even if it is only for one day, even if I carry out legislative activities only for one day, I will play my role in the National Assembly with a clear flag.”If the time comes when our country is deprived of the right to be elected, the party and the people will move forward,” he said.
In July 2021, former minister Cho posted a video on his Facebook page of himself doing pull-ups at the gym while wearing sleeveless athletic clothing that exposed his shoulders and back. It was posted as “public to friends” rather than public, but became known to the outside world when some supporters shared the post in the community.
When former minister Cho uploaded the pull-up video, his wife, Kyung-shim Jeong, was in custody awaiting the appeals court’s decision. At the time, the prosecution had asked for 7 years in prison and a fine of 900 million won at the trial to determine Jeong’s case. For this reason, the opposition party criticized former minister Cho, saying: “We have already assessed him as a narcissist, but in this case the severity is serious” and “If he were my husband, he would beat me with kimchi.” .”
However, former minister Cho’s supporters responded to such criticism by posting a video of a “pull-up relay” on social media, saying: “Don’t we have the freedom to do pull-ups?” As the applause became so heated, a professor from Busan University uploaded a video of the so-called “Wonsan bombing” (position of lying with your head on the floor and your back turned).
(From left) Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, Professor Kim Dong-gyu, Poet Kim Joo-dae/former Minister Cho Kuk Facebook
Former minister Cho responded to the support by sharing a video of his supporters doing pull-ups on his Facebook page. Former minister Cho said: “It’s a difficult time mentally and physically, and I’m trying to overcome it through exercise.” He added: “I would like to tell those who are busy making excuses to use their time to do pull-ups.”
Meanwhile, the presence of the Fatherland Innovation Party, founded by former minister Cho, is growing, and opinion polls announced one after another show that it recorded a double-digit approval rating in a recent survey on the intention to vote for parties with proportional representation.
The results announced on the 8th by the opinion polling institute Gallup Korea were obtained after interviewing 1,000 adults across the country by telephone from the 5th to the 7th (±3.1%p with a 95% confidence level for the ‘sampling error, response rate of 14.4%). In a survey on the intention to vote for a proportional representation party, the “People’s Power Proportional Party” was at 37%, the “Democratic Party-centered Proportional Coalition Party” at 25%, and the Fatherland Innovation Party at 15%.
Cho Kuk, representative of the Fatherland Innovation Party, speaks at a press conference for the admission of Representative Hwang Un-ha held at the headquarters of the Fatherland Innovation Party in Yeouido, Seoul, on the morning of the 8th. /yunhap news
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