In response to criticism of “Tourism tour of Wen during the national turmoil”…靑 “I hope we can go on the same schedule”

Regarding President Moon Jae-in’s trip to the Middle East, Tak Hyeon-min, secretary of the Blue House, expressed his uneasy feelings about the ‘tourism’ criticism from some people.

Secretary Tak posted on Facebook on the 24th, “Opposition parties who have been on tours like travel and some poor reporters who don’t know the story are very tired of hearing things like tourism, bucket list, etc. I sincerely hope that you will visit at least once on your schedule.”

President Moon returned to Korea on the 22nd after completing a six-night, eight-day tour starting on the 15th in three Middle East countries: the United Arab Emirates (UAE), Saudi Arabia, and Egypt.

Secretary Tak said, “The tour event is not a schedule to just go and meet the leader of the other country and return.” He added, “It is not only necessary to familiarize yourself with all the planned schedules, but also to know information about the people attending the event, and to know the topics to meet and share in advance. You have to study in ,” he said. He also explained, “The burden of working-level staff preparing the schedule is not small, but rather, the burden of the president, who has to lead all these things one-on-one or one-to-many, is not formidable even before departure.”

He emphasized, “The achievements of this tour can be summarized with keywords such as expo, defense industry, hydrogen, metro, and the resumption of free trade agreements (FTAs), and can be evaluated with actual contracts worth several trillions.”

“However, the most important thing is the fact that each country invited the president with about 100 days left in his term and wanted important talks and dialogues,” he said.

Secretary Tak said, “It’s not like they went on a tour when it was good to sell like the diplomats of the opposition party, and it’s not a trip to make official schedules and hang out in their spare time.” “There is no time like reporters when they just cover a set schedule and just go out and play. All the attendants can’t go out of the hotel except for the set schedule, they have a packed lunch, and they each pay the cost of the packed lunch. and revealed In this regard, he also posted a picture of him cooking ramen in the Middle East.

He also said, “If the president only visits, I hope that they will gather together and talk about their experiences that they would have come to play.”

Cho Tae-yong “Wen tours after the corona pandemic are twice as many as in the US and Japan”

▲ Facebook capture of Tak Hyeon-min, secretary of the Blue House

Rep. Cho Tae-yong, a former Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, posted on Facebook on the 22nd, when President Moon returned from a tour. <국란 속 맹물 순방, 더는 없어야 한다>posted an article titled “President Moon’s last trip to the Middle East.”

“President Moon has been abroad twice as long as the leaders of the United States and Japan since the start of the 2020 corona pandemic,” said Assemblyman Cho. In the midst of getting there, President Moon has again been absent.”

He continued, “A visit under unusual circumstances must have extraordinary results. If that is the case, then I cannot help asking how successful the visit was. The contract to export K-9 self-propelled artillery was not made. It is a re-enactment of the 2018 Korea-Egypt summit in New York,” he pointed out.

Rep. Cho also pointed out, “Summit diplomacy costs billions of people’s blood tax dollars,” and said, “We must produce results with thorough preparation. If we spend billions of dollars simply for consultations and requests, we can’t help but say that summit diplomacy is not very good.” .

Referring to his visit to the UAE, where the 4 trillion won worth of defense exports was prosperous, he emphasized that “one-point visit was enough.” He added, “The talk of a ‘bucket list’ comes up when you visit a country like Egypt without any clear prospects for achieving results at the end of your term.” said