South Korea's ruling party condemns video of child abuse allegations as ”fake news”

On the 8th, South Korea's ruling party, People's Power, accused Han Dong-hoon, the chairman of the party's emergency response committee, of posing for photos with children holding placards containing political messages.
He claimed that the video posted online was ``fabricated fake news'' and announced that he would take legal action. On this day, the party released press materials through the Media Law Group and released a video.
``We will sue the poster on the YouTube channel and community site that published the ``for defamation and violation of children's human rights,'' he said.
According to the party, the video was taken on the 4th of this month at the Chungcheongbuk branch's New Year's greetings party, and the video was prepared by Han's children.
After checking the contents of the placard, they determined it was inappropriate and put it away. However, the video was cut before and after that to make it appear that Han was giving the children placards.
He claimed that it was. The party condemned the act, saying, ``Publishing children's faces as they are for political attacks is an act that has a negative impact on children's mental health and development,'' and ``fake news.''
Those who spread the information should be severely punished." On this day, there were claims online that Mr. Han had committed child abuse by making a child hold a hateful placard and posing for a commemorative photo.
Photos and videos were posted, mainly on opposition party-supporting political YouTube channels.