Park Heung-seok: "Communication Education Program Must Be Abolished with Apology"

Park Heung-seok, a preliminary candidate for Suwon mayor from the Saenuri Party, stated on the 10th that he is "requesting the immediate abolition of the 'Communication 2012 Education' program, which revealed numerous issues including human rights violations and incurred the disapproval of approximately 2,000 public officials, as well as an official apology to those who underwent the re-education."

The preliminary candidate stated through a press release that "while Suwon City insists that the suicides of Mr. Park and Mr. You, who were included in the targets of the 'Communication 2012 Education' program, are unrelated to the communication education, the emotional anguish and sense of betrayal that 43 public officials who were included in the education program had to endure represent an inhumane act that cannot be compensated by anything."

Park urged that "Mayor Yeum Tae-young of Suwon City, as the father figure of 2,000 public officials and bearing the grave responsibility for the administration of 1.2 million residents of Suwon, should deeply recognize the weight of this responsibility, acknowledge the unfairness of the 'Communication 2012 Education,' abolish the program, and offer a formal apology to the public officials who were targeted by the education."