South Korea's presidential office condemns the false interview with former media union chairman...``It's a political maneuver.''

On the 5th, the South Korean President's Office released a statement regarding the ``false interview on urban development projects'' conducted by Shin Hak-rim, chairman of the former National Media Labor Union, on the Internet media ``News Break''.
``It's a political maneuver to influence the presidential election,'' he said. In an interview with Kim Man-bae, a major shareholder of Hoten Daeyu, Shin said that Yoon Seo-gyeol, who was a prosecutor at the time,
The president claimed that he covered up the Busan Savings Bank incident, but this is said to be unfounded. On the morning of the same day, officials from the presidential office issued a statement at the presidential office in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, saying,
It is gradually becoming clear that this was a political operation in an attempt to switch the perpetrator from Lee Jae-myung to Yun Seok-yue."
South Korean prosecutors served as expert advisors on the internet media ``News Break''
In September 2021, Mr. Shin conducted a false interview with Mr. Kim about ``suspects of Mr. Yoon covering up the Busan Savings Bank incident,'' and conducted an interview through the same media three days before the election of the 20th president.
He is under investigation for allegedly receiving 165 million won (approximately 18 million yen) in money and goods from Mr. Kim in return for reporting the article. In connection with this, a high-ranking official in the presidential office said, ``Kim Dae-op's politics
It was the largest political manipulation case in the 2022 presidential election, continuing the lineage of the fake news disclosure of the suspicion of manipulation and the Kyan Construction Lobby."
This person said that at the end of September 2021, immediately after Kim had a false interview with Shin,
He touched on a past media report in which Cho Woo-hyun, who was under investigation by a savings bank, was told, "My brother (Kim) will raise this case greatly, so you should pretend that you don't know."
He also said, “They made it as if the main culprit behind the Daejang-dong Gate was candidate Yoon.
Noda. The facts that were fabricated and the goal of the operation was to defeat candidate Yoon. Such political maneuvering and fake news are the biggest threat to democracy, distorting the public sentiment and rendering the electoral system meaningless.
. We must take this opportunity to break the chain of bad habits." In addition, "Some of the media involved in this incident are also responsible.
There were stations that did, and media that repeatedly published fake news. He took part in planned political maneuvering, and as a result, played the role of a large-scale speaker."
The source said, ``During the Busan Savings Bank investigation, Mr. Cho did not meet with President Yoon, who was the prosecutor at the time.
I'd love to hear if you think it's ethical. "We need to clearly explain to the public what the reason for such unethical reporting was, and whether our current position is the same as then."
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