After Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo lambasted former PPP interim leader Han Dong-hoon for the governing party’s crushing defeat in the April 10 parliamentary election, Han said, “An effort to correct the wrongs of the past is not betrayal but courage.”
After Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo — a senior member of the People Power Party (PPP), who earned the nickname of “angry bird” for his explosive rhetoric — lambasted former PPP interim leader Han Dong-hoon, a political novice, for the governing party’s crushing defeat in the April 10 parliamentary election, calling him “a traitor,” Han counterattacked against Hong, stressing that “an effort to correct the wrongs of the past is not betrayal but courage.” [PARK YONG-SEOK]
