Hyun Geun-taek, vice president of the Democratic Institute for Democracy and a pro-Myung faction figure outside the Democratic Party of Korea, is suspected of making sexually harassing remarks to the secretary of a local politician. The current vice president is participating in political activities, such as registering as a preliminary candidate for the Democratic Party of Jungwon-gu, Seongnam-si, Gyeonggi-do in this year’s general election and holding a book launch party.
Hyun Geun-taek, Vice President of the Democratic Research Institute. /Newsis
According to the political world on the 9th, Vice President Hyeon made a sexually harassing remark at a civic group’s year-end party held at a pub in Seongnam on the 29th of last month, asking female assistant B, who was sitting next to A, a candidate scheduled to run in the same district, “Are you a married couple?” He was surrounded by suspicions that he had done so. Mr. B asked, “Who are you and who are a couple?”, and Deputy Director Hyun said again, “A and you are a couple, you both caught a cold together,” and she reportedly laughed.
Although Mr. B asked him to refrain from talking too much, Mr. B claimed that Deputy Director Hyeon continued to say, “Do you guys live together?” and “Did you guys sleep together?” Mr. B said that he quit his job as an attendant. Deputy Director Hyun is said to have made about 10 phone calls the next day and left a text message saying, “I’m sorry.”
As the controversy arose, Deputy Director Hyun issued a statement saying, “I only intend to offer a sincere apology no matter how many times it takes until Mr. B’s feelings are relieved. If I get the chance, I would like to meet him in person and offer him a sincere apology.” “I will be careful with my words and actions to prevent something like this from happening in the future.”
Regarding the situation at the time, Deputy Director Hyeon said, “The day after (the year-end party), I received a call from Mr. A saying, ‘Mr. B was angry with what you said, so it would be a good idea to apologize.’ She said she called Mr. B, but she did not answer, and Mr. A told her to apologize at least through text.”
Deputy Director Hyun said, “In my apology, I literally tried to say, ‘I don’t remember because I was drinking,’ but Mr. A said, ‘It would be better not to say something like that,’ so I followed suit.” “I checked with people I was drinking with at the time. Mr. A said, ‘I never asked if they slept together at the time,’ and others said they never even heard the words, ‘Are you a couple’ or ‘Do you live together?’”
The current vice president is a pro-Myung faction figure who defended former Gyeonggi Province Vice Governor Lee Hwa-young. Lee Jae-myeong, leader of the Democratic Party, sent a congratulatory message to Vice President Hyun’s publication ceremony held on the 7th and said, “Vice President Hyun Geun-taek, whom I have observed, is a politician who always interacts with citizens in the field and shares the desperate lives of the people, no matter where he stands or what he does.” .
2024-01-09 05:12:49
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