Han Dong-hoon: “See for yourself whether I’m the kind of person who’d grab a microphone and sing at a drinking party” ... A look at the video he released

[Financial News] As the Democratic Party of Korea moved to reignite the “Cheongdam-dong drinking-party allegation,” independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon shared a video of himself dancing at a local festival, telling people to see for themselves whether he is the kind of person who would sing at a drinking party.

On the 9th, Han wrote on his social media account, “The Democratic Party is once again officially spreading ‘fake news about the Cheongdam-dong drinking party.’ Even though a damages ruling and an investigation have already established that it was false, the Democratic Party’s behavior shows it is not a ‘bona fide political party,’” he claimed.
Han continued, “So the Democratic Party’s official position is that ‘a drinking party in Cheongdam-dong attended by Han Dong-hoon existed.’ Fine—let the entire Democratic Party bring it on,” he posted. He added, “The Democratic Party was humiliated after lying that I ‘sang a Yoon Do-hyun song accompanied by a cellist’ at a drinking party in Cheongdam-dong, and now it is officially repeating that lie under the name of a Democratic Party spokesperson.”

In an additional post, he stressed, “Apart from everything else, this video will give you the answer as to whether I’m the sort of person who would go to a drinking party, grab a microphone and sing,” and shared a video of himself dancing lightly to an invited singer’s performance of “What’s Wrong with My Age?” at the Eoullim Festival in Deokcheon 2-dong, Buk-gu, Busan, his constituency, on the 2nd.
When asked to “sing a song,” Rep. Han declined, saying, “I don’t know any songs; I only know a little of the chorus.” But when the chorus came on, he briefly sang the words “What’s Wrong with My Age?” and immediately handed the microphone to a local resident.
Earlier, Democratic Party spokesperson Jo Gye-won revisited the Cheongdam-dong drinking-party allegation at a press conference at the National Assembly, saying, “Questions are now being raised about whether the case was manipulated during the prosecution’s or police’s investigation.”
The “Cheongdam-dong drinking-party allegation” is the claim that on July 19, 2022, then-President Yoon Suk Yeol and then-Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon had drinks with around 30 lawyers from Kim & Chang and others at a bar in Cheongdam-dong, Gangnam-gu, Seoul.
At the time, Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Eui-gyeom publicly raised the allegation during a parliamentary audit by the 21st National Assembly of South Korea on October 24 of the same year. However, a month after the allegation was raised, the cellist whose tip had sparked it appeared at a police station and testified, “I lied to deceive my ex-boyfriend,” revealing the allegation to be false. Last year, the Seoul Central District Court’s 14th Civil Division (Presiding Judge Jeong Ha-jeong) also ruled that the allegation was false.
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