On the 13th, the People Power Party went on the attack over President Lee Jae-myung's instruction to conduct a full inspection of books at airports to prepare for cases of smuggling cash overseas by inserting bills into books, saying it was "the method used in the SSANGBANGWOOL remittance-to-North-Korea case."
Jang Dong-hyeok, the party leader, mentioned the president on Facebook that day and, citing the SSANGBANGWOOL remittance-to-North-Korea case, said, "It felt odd to hear such a random, nitpicking instruction, and I'm told that smuggling foreign currency by slipping it in like a bookmark was the method used in the 'SSANGBANGWOOL remittance-to-North-Korea case,'" adding, "No matter how much Lee feigns ignorance and insists it has nothing to do with him, his body already remembered."
Citing that the president the previous day scolded Lee Hak-jae, the Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) president appointed under the Yoon Suk-yeol administration, Jang said it was "a case of mindlessly tearing down a chief appointed by the previous administration and only confessing his own criminal method."
Rep. Na Kyung-won also said on social media, "Why did the president, of all the many smuggling methods, zero in so doggedly on 'bookmark dollar smuggling'?" adding, "Could it be that a secret memory tied to Lee's legal risk burst out unconsciously and manifested as 'post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)' that ended up seizing on an unrelated public corporation chief?"
Former leader Han Dong-hoon retorted, "It seems his 'I know it well because I've done it' instinct kicked in while publicly humiliating the airport corporation chief appointed by the previous administration to drive him out and parachute in an ally—is that something to brag about having done?"
Meanwhile, Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok, referring to the president asking Northeast Asian History Foundation Chair Park Ji-hyang during a work report the previous day whether the Hwandangogi was "a document," said, "The Hwandangogi is a forgery. It appears in no sources before 1911, modern Japan-style Sino-Korean words show up in purported ancient records, and it directly contradicts archaeological evidence," adding, "After a president who believes in a rigged election comes a president who believes in the Hwandangogi—this makes me worry about the Republic of Korea."