Gyeonggi Province Governor: ”During martial law, we immediately refused the order to close the provincial office”

Gyeonggi Province Governor Kim Dong-yeon revealed that he immediately refused the order to close off the Gyeonggi Provincial Office during the December 3 emergency martial law.
In an interview with the French newspaper Le Monde on the 15th, the governor explained the reason behind his refusal to cooperate with the government's martial law by saying,
"This is unconstitutional and unjust. Even when the military came and detained and blocked off the area, they tried to resist with their bodies," said Philippe Mermes, a correspondent for Le Monde.
It was learned that he had requested an interview with the prefecture after hearing the news that the governor had refused an order from the Ministry of Interior and Safety (equivalent to Japan's Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications) to close the government building shortly after martial law was declared.
Regarding the state of emergency, the governor said, "At the time, I thought it was 'Fei News.' However, the Ministry of the Interior and Safety called me and asked me to block people from entering and leaving the provincial office."
"When I received the notice, I immediately ordered them to reject it," the governor said. "In the past, when we looked at it as a case of martial law, we thought that the martial law troops might take over and blockade the provincial office, but that was the reason.
"We thought we had to protect the office at all times," he said, "so we immediately convened a meeting of executives and entered the prefectural office. If martial law troops had entered the building to blockade it, we would have been detained."
He added, "At the executive meeting, I said that emergency martial law is a clear coup and unconstitutional, so I cannot comply with it, and that I will take full responsibility." He added, "Senior civil servants followed instructions without wavering.
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