On the morning of the 22nd, while Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee Sang-min left after completing the site investigation by the special committee for national security, the bereaved families of the Itaewon disaster protested. National Assembly Photo Correspondents
On the morning of the 21st, the first day of the Lunar New Year holiday, Minister of Public Administration and Security Sang-min Lee paid his condolences at the memorial service for the victims of the Itaewon disaster without notice.
According to the Citizens’ Countermeasures Meeting for the Itaewon Disaster, Minister Lee visited the citizen’s incense burner at Itaewon Plaza in Yongsan-gu at around 10:40 am that day. After finishing his condolences, Minister Lee was reported to have left the scene five minutes after arriving at the incense burner.
The Citizens’ Countermeasures Committee criticized Minister Lee’s condolences in a statement, saying, “It was a one-sided affair without prior contact with the bereaved family.”
The Citizens’ Countermeasures Committee emphasized, “As the key person in charge of the disaster, I came to the thief’s condolences without a word of bitter reflection and apology,” and “the condolences I sought without notice, forgetting my position and responsibility (as the Minister of Public Administration and Security), can not provide any consolation.” did.
“Minister Lee, who has neither an official apology nor an answer to his request for resignation, must step down,” he insisted.
