After Lee Jae-myung was acquitted, the four-character idiom 'Changhae'...What does it mean? [Y transcript]

■ Host: Kim Sun-young Anchor
■ Starring: Rep. Bok Ki-wang of the Democratic Party of Korea, Professor Kim Geun-sik of Kyungnam University

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◆ Anchor: The Changhae family. CEO Lee Jae-myung, who was acquitted in the first trial of perjury yesterday, took out these four letters in the wake of Changhae. Let's first listen to the reaction of the ruling and opposition party representatives regarding the first trial yesterday.

[Lee Jae-myung / Democratic Party leader (Yesterday): Thank you to the court for bringing back truth and justice. Although the process is very difficult and long, it is difficult for me to experience as a part of the Changhae Sea, and it is just one small rice under the big sea. Compared to the difficulties our people face, I think the difficulties I face are minimal. I would like to say that I will do my best for the better life of our people in the future, and I hope that politics is not about killing and stepping on each other, but about coexisting and going with each other. Rather than killing politics, let's do politics that saves people, I want to say to the government and the ruling party. Thank you.]

[Han Dong-hoon / Representative of People's Power (today): There are many things I can't relate to about the ruling. I'm sure many legal professionals think so, but the justice system is a system. Nevertheless, I respect that. In the process, I think there is a high possibility that it will be straightened out within the Korean judicial system. Nevertheless, we respect the power of our people for the second trial ruling. As the Democratic Party of Korea expressed its strong support and respect for the ruling, it should also respect the November 15 prison sentence.]

◆ Anchor: We heard the reaction of the representatives of the ruling and opposition parties regarding the acquittal of the perjury teacher in the first trial. CEO Lee Jae-myung brought up a four-character idiom in Changhae. Did you prepare it in anticipation of innocence? What do you think?

◇ King Bokgi: I think I probably didn't expect it. That is why my difficulty is only narrow in the sea water. I was shocked after I was convicted in the last election law trial of the Democratic Party of Korea's leader saying that the people's livelihoods are much harder in this difficult economic situation. After that, I talked about the message that Lee Jae-myung is alive and well to the people, and expressed that it is a very small difficulty. Isn't our politics too abnormal right now? Politics has to go like politics, but policy confrontations between political parties and political competition have disappeared, and only the prosecution's attack on the opposition party remains.

And then politics is as if it's missing. The presidential office and the ruling party want to neutralize the political action itself, dismissing the opposition's political action as bulletproof. In this situation, the ruling party is not seen, only the prosecution is seen. It's such a strange look. If you look at the trial, the results of the first trial show that the prosecution has prosecuted too much, and if the results come out like this even by the second trial, the prosecution expects that the existence itself will be dangerous.

Excerpt from the conversation: Jung Eui-jin, editor of the digital news team