Former President Yoon Suk-yeol reportedly stated on the 21st that voting should be conducted without any electronic devices after watching a documentary film raising allegations of election fraud.
On that day, Former President Yoon visited a theater in Jung-gu, Seoul, to watch the film "Election Fraud: God's Work?" and said, "(Elections) should be conducted transparently without computers or electronic devices," according to Lee Young-don, the producer of the film. Lee also asserted, "If future elections are conducted manually and early voting is abolished, all citizens will accept the results."
The poster for the film "Election Fraud: God's Work?" displays the phrase, "I am convinced of election fraud on June 3rd." This producer mentioned, "If the results of this presidential election are incomprehensible to the public, the production team's position is to launch a movement against the results."
This film was co-produced by Jeon Han-gil, a famous Korean history instructor, and Lee Young-don, and was released on that day. Former President Yoon visited the theater in the morning after being invited by Jeon the previous day. During the film, it is said that he applauded during the segment discussing election fraud. This outing, which took place away from court, is the first since he was removed from office on the 4th of last month while facing charges of being a leader of a rebellion.
After meeting with reporters, Jeon stated that Former President Yoon watched the film in support, saying, "I came to see it because many young people in their 20s and 30s are going to watch it." He also added, "There is no message about the next presidential election at all." Additionally, he remarked, "If you are confident that there has been no election fraud until now, you should sue Jeon Han-gil, and I will stake my right wrist that there was 100% (election fraud)."
Members of the youth group "Free University" supporting Former President Yoon waved red balloons with the phrase "You are the only one who doesn't know about election fraud" written on them. As Former President Yoon appeared at the theater around 9:40 a.m., they chanted, "Yoon Suk-yeol!"
After finishing the film, Former President Yoon reportedly said, "It was good" when asked by reporters about his impressions. He then took an escalator down from the screening level to the ticketing area and proceeded directly to the elevator without greeting supporters or making any separate remarks. Approximately 50 supporters gathered shouted, "President Yoon Suk-yeol!" "Yoon Again!" "Hang in there, Mr. President!"
Earlier, Former President Yoon claimed during a public address on December 12 last year, before the impeachment motion was passed in the National Assembly, that "When a National Intelligence Service employee attempted to hack, it was entirely possible to manipulate data (in the Election Commission's system)." He asked, "How can citizens trust the election results?"
At that time, the Election Commission rebutted, stating, "We provided the system access account requested by the National Intelligence Service in advance during a joint security consulting and did not apply some of our own security systems," and added, "It is difficult to accept that data manipulation is possible." The Election Commission also stated that the ballot sorting machine in the counting process is a secondary tool and that election workers choose to verify ballots visually using manual counting.