"Providing space despite the 'assassin(s)' controversy" National power in Daejeon market "Anyone can do as they please"

(Daejeon = Yonhap News) Reporter Park Joo-young = Regarding Daejeon Mayor Heo Tae-jeong's statement that he would "continue to provide filming space" despite the controversy over the movie "Assassin(s)," the Daejeon City Party of the People Power Party issued a comment on the 7th and criticized, "Is civic space private?"

The People Power Party pointed out, "The core of this controversy is not simply the issue of renting a filming location for a movie, but the standards by which Daejeon City provides public facilities managed with citizens' taxes." They added, "Rather than listening to the concerns of citizens, the mayor is only pushing them with 'ideological standards.'"

He then asked, "Are you saying that it is okay to give away as much civic space as possible based on the mayor's political judgment?" and asked, "If the mayor respects freedom of expression, he must answer whether he can apply the same standards to works that are different from his own thoughts."

Mayor Heo said at a city administration briefing commemorating the 100th day of his inauguration of the 9th popularly elected election the previous day, "Imagination in the field of culture and arts must be respected," and added, "I am very suspicious of the intentions of those who apply ideological standards as if they are testing ideas. The old Chungcheongnam-do Provincial Office looked very pretty in movies, and Daejeon City is willing to provide space as much as necessary in the future."

Meanwhile, as the controversy over the distortion of history surrounding the movie 'Assassin(s)' spreads, demands are pouring in from People Power Party lawmakers in Daejeon, who rented the filming location, to submit data.

The city's position is that the production company's official document for cooperation in filming only briefly described it in one line as "a film depicting the 1970s era in Korea," and that it was not aware of the plot in advance.