President Lee Jae-myung refutes claims of 'harassment' related to former leader Chung Cheong-rae's dinner

Jeong, you weren’t dragged around or I was harassing you… "Look at things from the right perspective"

(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 from a netizen who said about the dinner meeting on the 1st, "Stop harassing Cheongnae. This came out in the process of refuting the fact that they called the group out and said, ‘We sympathize with you.’ If you say that, it seems too cruel.’

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

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."

President Lee personally called former CEO Jeong, 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