Reform Party leader Lee Jun-seok declared support for People Power Party candidate Yoo Ui-dong, who is running in the National Assembly by-election for Pyeongtaek B in Gyeonggi Province. Pyeongtaek B has a five-way race among the People Power Party, the Democratic Party of Korea, the Rebuilding Korea Party, Freedom and Innovation, and The Progressive Party. The Reform Party did not field a separate candidate.
On the 28th, Lee wrote on Facebook, "Not as the Reform Party leader but, if I may, as a lawmaker who must protect the rights and interests of engineering and science engineers and researchers in southern Gyeonggi, I would like to ask (voters)," adding, "For Godeok International New Town (Pyeongtaek B, Gyeonggi) and Dongtan (Hwaseong, Gyeonggi) to join hands and develop together, please help Yoo Ui-dong, who has shared the same concerns with me for more than a dozen years, to work in the National Assembly once again."
Lee said, "Some figures in the Democratic Party are bringing up the idea of moving the semiconductor belt of southern Gyeonggi to Saemangeum (North Jeolla Province) and to South Jeolla Province," and pointed out, "Forcibly scattering a semiconductor production ecosystem with world-class competitiveness for political justification does not help those regions and is an even greater loss to the nation as a whole."
He continued, "Yoo Ui-dong is someone I earnestly recruited as policy committee chair when I was leading the People Power Party, and there is long-built trust," adding, "Without any responsibility for martial law or the Yoon Suk-yeol administration's misrule, he has always spoken straightforwardly even within it."
Lee said, "If the residents of Dongtan persuade their colleagues who work in Pyeongtaek, we will gain another lawmaker (Yoo Ui-dong) who will work together to solve Dongtan's issues," adding, "If the residents of Pyeongtaek respond in kind, then we will have two lawmakers who will work together to solve even Pyeongtaek's issues."
Lee cited allegations that Democratic Party candidate Kim Yong-nam ran an illegal lending firm and controversy over the child's paper of Rebuilding Korea Party candidate Cho Kuk, saying, "With the pride of the two cities built on the sweat of engineering and science and on research ethics, I hope voters will strike from consideration those with such controversies."