On the 26th, Rep. Nam In-soon, who led the Democratic Party’s use of the term’victim complainant’ shortly after the late former Seoul Mayor Park Won-soon’s sexual harassment incident, said on the 26th, “Political rights have created misunderstandings and distrust that seem to deny the victims. My short thoughts made the victim more hurt.” The position came only the day after the National Human Rights Commission announced the result that “Mayor Park’s sexual actions against victims are sexual harassment.”
In-soon Nam, a Democratic Party member. [중앙포토]
– Rep. Nam said in a statement that day, “I humbly accept the results of the human rights commission’s investigation,” and “I will do my best to ensure that the recommendations of the Human Rights Commission are faithfully implemented.” “I thought that I had lived my life to improve women’s rights, but through this work, I looked back at how much I was lacking. I was disappointed with many people who trusted me.”
Earlier in the incident in July of last year, the Democratic Party was controversial when CEO Lee Hae-chan and others called the victims of sexual harassment as’the victims’. In the opposition, “The Democratic Party did not want to call the victim a victim, so they started creating a group. He criticized him as’elegant secondary abuse’” (Spokesman Kim Eun-hye of the Future Integration Party) that he would not admit the suspicion. It was belatedly known that the use of this term was led by Congressman Nam, who is also the head of the Gender Violence Eradication Task Force. Accordingly, the opposition party criticized Nam as “the’naked face of the’women’s movement appealer”” (representative Han Moo-kyung), and on the 18th, the victim himself said, “(Nam) is a’victim’. He criticized that he made a new word and damaged my honor.”
Rep. Nam also apologized for the alleged leak of the former mayor’s lawsuit. “At the time of the incident, when I called the Seoul Gender Special Affairs and asked’what is unpleasant,’ it caused considerable confusion, and this was my disrespect, without any excuses,” he said. Rep. Nam was suspected of leaking the accusation to Seoul’s Gender Specialist Lim Soon-young on the day before the death of former Mayor Park, who was the highest member of the party, in July of last year, even before a formal complaint was filed with the police.
However, immediately after the suspicion, “I did not know about the lawsuit against Mayor Park. Some media reports that reported the status of the accused were not true” (July 24), and even after the prosecution’s investigation in December of last year revealed the leak of lawmaker Nam’s accused, “I didn’t know about the accused, and there was no leak” (last 6th).
Rep. Nam, who denied the suspicion for six months, announced an apology on the day, and some criticized politicians saying, “Isn’t it trying to bury the situation of former Justice Party representative Kim Jong-cheol?” A woman member of the People’s Power who wanted anonymity said, “Is you envious of dealing with the sexual harassment of former president Kim Jong-cheol of the Justice Party? After standing on the side of the perpetrator for six months, the election came and the Justice Party crisis broke out. I can only see it as a show,” he said. Meanwhile, the Democratic Party’s National Women’s Committee (Chairman Chung Chun-suk) also apologized on the day, saying, “We respect the results of the Human Rights Commission’s investigation and take it heavily.”
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