On the 15th, former People Power Party leader Han Dong-hoon again proposed a debate to Cho Kuk, the former emergency committee chair of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party, regarding the Daejang-dong case appeal-waiver affair, saying, “Instead of going on air, have a public debate with me.” Cho responded, “I have no intention of responding to Mr. Han Dong-hoon’s whining.”

Han wrote on his Facebook that day, “Mr. Cho Kuk, a former professor siding with the Daejang-dong ring,” and, “Over the illegal appeal-waiver affair, ‘the Daejang-dong ring’s side vs. the people’s side’to see who is right, I will accommodate any time and place, including MBC·Kim Eo-jun broadcasts, so let’s, ‘like a beast,’ hold a public debate before the public.” He added, “Open-book is fine, you can come as three, and you may invoke the right to refuse testimony. Only forged documents are not allowed.”

Han also shared the thumbnail of a recent video in which Cho appeared on the YouTube channel ‘Sampro(TV)’. The thumbnail read, “Cho Kuk has become a ‘beast’,” but the phrase was later replaced with different wording.

Han wrote, “Have you given up on becoming a beast?” and, “If you are going to be that afraid, why did you pick a fight with me while taking the Daejang-dong ring’s side, saying, ‘Why is confiscating in the Daejang-dong case wrong, and why should it be done through civil proceedings’?”

In response, Cho countered that it was “a typical tactic of a political prosecutor who distorts facts to attack the target.”

Cho wrote on his Facebook that day, “To use a trendy expression, it seems Mr. Han Dong-hoon, who has no prospects even within the People Power Party, is in a ‘scratched’ state,” and, “Sampro(TV) has been changing the interview video’s title multiple times, and he mocks me as if I changed it, then proposes again to hold a public debate.”

Cho stated, “It seems he has gotten a taste for it because attacking me draws media and public attention,” and added, “I have no intention of responding to Mr. Han Dong-hoon’s whining.”

He said, “As minister of justice, he appeared before the National Assembly to explain the motion to arrest Leader Lee Jae-myung and condemned him as the Daejang-dong case’s ‘biggest beneficiary’ and the ‘apex of large-scale corruption’,” adding, “This was denied in the first-instance ruling.”

Cho then wrote, “Mr. Han Dong-hoon should apologize to President Lee Jae-myung, and instead of spending time writing whiny posts asking me to debate, he would do well to prepare to be investigated.”