Author Cho Hana's Commentary on Rhyu Si-min

Author Cho Hana
Even when presented with facts, he refuses to believe them and insists that only what he has decided is right is the truth. This is the exact attitude that Rhyu Si-min has mocked and despised throughout his entire life, yet he is now exhibiting that very same behavior himself. Despite this, Rhyu Si-min does not stand in any position where he can be publicly refuted regarding these remarks. He only appears on platforms favorable to him, such as Media Today or the channels of Kim Eo-jun and Choi Wook. The hosts chime in with his words, and the editing is done to his advantage. He never appears in a public forum where he sits face-to-face with those holding opposing views to verify facts one by one. As mentioned before, he rejected both the Blue House's invitation to meet and the proposal for a public debate by Helma and Newtamsa.
Rhyu Si-min always hits and runs. He throws out a statement, and when the repercussions grow, he retreats. The cleanup is always left to others.
The Blue House, which should be focusing on the national affairs and foreign diplomacy of this Republic of Korea, has to verify the facts every single time, while the media writes fact-check articles, YouTubers and commentators upload rebuttal videos, and members of the National Assembly step in to provide explanations. So many people and institutions are mobilized, consuming days of time, just because of a single remark from one person. This pattern has been repeating for seven months now. Starting from the "ABC Theory" last March, through the "Juvenile Law Commentator," "New Lee Jae-myung," "Fish Market Smell," "Stone in the Shoe," and now this distortion of facts regarding prosecution reform—less than a year since the administration took office, Rhyu Si-min has designed this war of attrition himself and continues to repeat it. The energy our society should be using for productive and developmental work is being exhausted every time to clean up the words he throws out.
If Rhyu Si-min is left as he is, he will repeat this same pattern until this administration ends. And if the next administration is handed over, whether it's prosecution reform or anything else, it will all eventually be in vain.
It seems as though Rhyu Si-min is trying to drag down the Lee Jae-myung administration's approval ratings to prevent the re-election of the next administration. And if the next administration passes to the People Power Party, he will surely say, "See, what did I tell you?"
All without accounting for the chaos he created and the social energy he consumed.
The reason I am speaking up clearly, even with such a small voice, is that I do not want to live with the regret of saying, "I couldn't do anything back then," if we end up handing the next administration over to insurrectionist forces again because of people like Rhyu Si-min.