Yang Moon-seok, a former Democratic Party of Korea lawmaker who lost his seat over charges including loan fraud, sent a love call to Kim Yong, former deputy head of the Democratic Research Institute. He effectively asked him to run in the by-election for National Assembly member in Ansan-gap, Gyeonggi, which had been his constituency.
On the 25th, in a Facebook post, the former lawmaker mentioned the former deputy head and said, "Please come to Ansan-gap." While the post asked him to take over as head of the Ansan-gap district committee that Yang had been in charge of, it effectively meant asking him to run as the district's National Assembly member in the June by-elections.
He said, "I am hearing many voices calling for the return of the former deputy head Kim, who knows Gyeonggi Province better than anyone and did not waver a bit in the prosecutorial cartel's fabricated witch hunt," adding, "If you take charge of the Ansan-gap constituency, I think I can repay, even a little, the debt owed to the citizens."
On the 12th, the former lawmaker lost his seat when the Supreme Court finalized a sentence of 1 year and 6 months in prison, suspended for 3 years, on a charge of fraud under the Act on the Aggravated Punishment of Specific Economic Crimes. As the former lawmaker gave up filing a constitutional appeal, the by-election for National Assembly member in Ansan-gap in June was finalized.