"After our SNS back-and-forth, I don’t really need to meet him"...Jang Dong-hyuk says he can "fully refute" President Lee

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According to Financial News, People Power Party leader Jang Dong-hyuk explained why he notified President Lee Jae-myung at the last minute that he would skip their planned luncheon, saying, "After trying it on social media, I felt there was really no need to meet in person."
Appearing on Channel A on the 18th, Jang was asked whether he should meet the President in person to discuss solutions, given that the two had clashed over real estate policy on social networking services during the Lunar New Year holiday. He replied along those lines.
Jang stressed, "Since the President keeps posting messages, I think that in itself allows for a full rebuttal. What I meant, in a sarcastic way, was that instead of continuing to do politics through social media, the President should sit down with the opposition leader and discuss these issues face to face, rather than making it seem as if there’s no real need to meet."
He also pushed back against criticism from the Democratic Party of Korea and President Lee that he is a multiple-home owner with six properties.
He explained, "I live with my family in one home in Seoul, and I bought another home in the constituency of Boryeong and Seocheon in South Chungcheong Province for my local political activities. There is a house in the countryside where my elderly mother lives, and when my father-in-law passed away, I inherited a share of the apartment in Jinju where my mother-in-law now lives."
He continued, "I also inherited a share of an apartment in Gyeonggi Province that my father-in-law bought with his retirement pay to earn rental income. My mother-in-law lives on the rent from that apartment. Lastly, I own an officetel in Yeouido that I use for my parliamentary work at the National Assembly. Each property is used for its specific purpose, so there is nothing I can simply sell off."
Jang went on to say, "President Lee doesn’t even bring up the ‘tariff’ issue, where he is facing serious difficulties, yet every night he talks only about real estate policy. Isn’t that because he either has no interest in the tariff problem or has no solution, and is therefore trying to keep shifting the agenda to real estate?"
y27k@fnnews.com Reporter Seo Yoon-kyung Reporter