President Lee Jae-myung retorts to netizens who criticized the dinner meeting by saying, ‘Look at things from the right perspective.’

Responding to a netizen's post criticizing the dinner meeting by saying, "Look at things from the right perspective."

Jeong Cheong-rae also said, “Let’s talk about concerns about the country and the party with a comradely spirit without being rude… We need to come together.”

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hwang Yoon-ki = President Lee Jae-myeong said on the 3rd regarding the recent dinner meeting with former leader of the Democratic Party of Korea Chung Cheong-rae, "I decided to meet him during a phone call to console him when he was hospitalized, so we had a dinner meeting after returning home from attending the United Nations General Assembly and visiting Mexico."

President Lee said this in a post posted on

President Lee's explanation came in the process of rebutting what a netizen said about the dinner meeting on the 1st, "Stop harassing Cheongnae. If you call him in a group trap and say, 'We sympathize', it seems too cruel.'

After quoting the article, President Lee said, "Former Representative Chung and I are comrades who fought together through an era of darkness and death when even our lives were threatened, and through the night of civil war."

He went on to say, “Former CEO Jeong is also a person with his own thoughts and judgments,” and added, “He was not dragged around by me, and I did not harass him, so please do not misunderstand or misunderstand.”

At the same time, he said to the netizen in question, "I think it would be a good idea to take things from the right perspective."

In response to this, former CEO Jeong mentioned the title of an article on Facebook in which President Lee described himself as a 'comrade who fought together through the night of civil war' and said, "Comrades who supported Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun, Moon Jae-in, and Lee Jae-myung, and who went through the night of civil war together on December 3. “Let’s unite the four (four presidents) and go together,” he said. “Let’s unite should be our slogan.”

Former Representative Chung posted again on Facebook, saying, "As announced, I had a good meeting (with the President) and had many constructive conversations. I was not treated poorly and had a comradely feeling about the country and the party." We must come together to survive. “Let’s unite,” he said.

Previously, President Lee personally called former CEO Chung, who was hospitalized last month due to deteriorating health, to wish him a recovery, and on the 1st, invited him to the Blue House and had dinner with him.

During the August 17 National Convention, which was held as a confrontation between the pro-Cheong (pro-government Cheongnae) faction and the pro-Myung (pro-Lee Jae-myung) faction, former Representative Chung engaged in a battle with Representative Kim Min-seok, who claimed to be a pro-Myung candidate, and President Lee's supporters over the issue of political routes, etc.

President Lee's dinner meeting with former leader Jeong is being evaluated as an act of internal unification within the party.

Meanwhile, in a separate post on