![A man dressed in black wields his clothes toward Lee Jae-myung, chairman of the Democratic Party of Korea, near a shelter for victims in Yeongyang-gun, North Gyeongsang Province, on the 27th. [Photo source = MBN]](jpg/news-p.v1.20250328.737bdb3a938c4dcd98dddec56b3806dc_p1-2.jpg)
Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party of Korea, who visited a shelter for victims of forest fires in Yeongyang, North Gyeongsang Province, was threatened by a man.
Representative Lee visited the Yeongyang-gun Culture and Sports Center in Gyeongsangbuk-do on the 27th to examine the forest fire damage.
After coming out of the shelter building, the representative moved to an outside food delivery vehicle to greet the volunteers and waved at the residents.
In the process, a man walked toward representative Lee and shouted "I don't want to see" and swung his outerwear in his hand as he got closer.
The representative, who was hit in the face by the outerwear, stood still as if surprised, and the man was restrained by bodyguards. Representative Lee shook hands with citizens without any change in his expression and then boarded the vehicle and left the scene.
Representative Lee is said to be unharmed, and the man is known to be a local victim who lost his home in a fire.
The Democratic Party of Korea's representative office said, "I understand that emotions must have been raging as the fire damaged the house and the people around it were also sacrificed. I sympathized with the pain and asked the police for leniency," he said.
On the same day, there was a commotion when he visited a forest fire shelter at the Progressive Culture and Sports Center in Cheongsong-gun, Gyeongsangbuk-do.
When CEO Lee tried to start a back briefing outside the building, a man said, "If you're done taking pictures, my warehouse is on fire now, let's go turn off the lights!" In response, CEO Lee looked at the man and nodded and said, "Let's start after it's organized."
But the man said, "Who's here to put out the lights. You're here to take a picture, right?" and "I didn't do anything wrong. I tell my story with my own mouth," he said, without stopping the protest. Cheongsong-gun County Governor Yoon Kyung-hee said, "CEO, I'll organize it," and CEO Lee said, "Leave it alone. It's okay. He said, "I'm sure they think that's something to do well in their own way."
As soon as CEO Lee tried to take off his mouth again, the man shouted, "It's been burning for three days." Then CEO Lee said, "Such political activities have taken place in such a scene, so I wonder how urgent it would be."
