[Anchor]
Yong Hye-in, nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family, repeatedly claims that she will address various suspicions surrounding her only during the confirmation hearing. However, just three years ago when she was a member of the National Assembly's confirmation committee, she fiercely criticized a ministerial nominee who postponed explanations.
Here is a report from reporter Park Chan-beom.
[Reporter]
Yong Hye-in, nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family, made her first commute to the confirmation preparation office on the 2nd.
She took questions from reporters for about 10 minutes, but starting the next day, she stopped answering questions altogether regarding whether she would resign from her lawmaker position, repeatedly giving brief responses that she would clarify various suspicions at the National Assembly's confirmation hearing.
[Yong Hye-in / Nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family (The day before yesterday): (Do you still maintain the same stance on holding your lawmaker position concurrently?) ......]
Three years ago, as a freshman lawmaker, nominee Yong served as a member of the National Assembly's confirmation committee for then-Ministry of Gender Equality and Family ministerial nominee Kim Haeng.
At the time, when nominee Kim stopped her commute Q&A sessions five days in a line amid a flurry of suspicions, nominee Yong criticized her as follows:
[Yong Hye-in / Then-Member of the Confirmation Committee for the Minister of Gender Equality and Family Nominee (September 2023): Nominee Kim has even halted her commute Q&A sessions, stating that she will 'explain everything at the confirmation hearing.' This can only be interpreted as running away because she cannot provide an explanation.]
Regarding suspicions that her former party, the Labor Party, had discriminatory guidelines such as bans on abortion or premarital chastity within its so-called "underground organization," nominee Yong recently stated:
[Yong Hye-in / Nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family (The day before yesterday): (What was the reason you condoned the discriminatory guidelines of the 'underground organization'?) I will address that at the hearing.]
However, when she was a confirmation committee member in the past, she strongly criticized then-nominee Kim Haeng using her past remarks regarding sexual self-determination rights:
[Yong Hye-in / Then-Member of the Confirmation Committee for the Minister of Gender Equality and Family Nominee (September 2023): (Nominee Kim) showed a pathetic understanding of women's sexual self-determination rights, stating that 'tolerance is needed to accept even an unwanted pregnancy.']
The ruling and opposition parties are coordinating to hold nominee Yong's confirmation hearing on the 18th.
[Yong Hye-in / Nominee for Minister of Gender Equality and Family (The day before yesterday): (If you don't answer, isn't this the same as the privileged behavior you criticized in the past?) ......]
(Video reporting: Lee Seung-hwan, Shin Dong-hwan | Video editing: Jang Hyun-ki)
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