On the 14th, Mrs. Kim Kun-hee, wife of President Yoon Seok-yeol, met in Bali, Indonesia, with young activists who have led the ban on the use of plastic bags in the region to protect the environment.
According to the presidential office, Ms. Kim met with sisters Melati and Isabel Wiesen, who created the environmental movement group “Bye Bye Plastic Bags (BBPS)” and led the passage of related laws in 2019, and had a conversation about products made from recycled materials divided Ms. Kim showed a business card holder made from a military tent currently in use and a purse made from a coffee bag.
Sister Wizen related an anecdote about her visit to Jeju and said, “I was impressed by the clean streets and public facilities of the time.” In response, Ms. Kim said, “The issue of climate and the environment is as important as nuclear war,” and added, “I want to create an opportunity for the Wisen sisters to talk to Korean youth.”
After a photo of Ms Kim holding a Cambodian boy suffering from heart disease was released on the 12th, a battle erupted between the ruling and opposition parties. At the Supreme Council meeting on the 14th, Democratic Party Supreme Council member Jang Gyeong-tae said, “The clothes, look and mood are all similar to the photo Audrey Hepburn took while holding a malnourished child in her arms.” Somalia in 1992″. He also stated that it was a “pornographic painting of poverty” that transformed poverty and suffering into a spectacle. On the other hand, People’s Power representative Kim Ki-hyun mentioned on Facebook the solo visit of former President Moon Jae-in’s wife Kim Jung-sook to India in 2018, and said, “The ‘first lady of the good deeds’ volunteering with needy neighbors like Audrey Hepburn is a hundred times better than ‘tourist first lady’, a thousand times better,” he wrote.
Reporter Hong Soo-young [email protected]
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