"How uncomfortable must First Lady Kim Keon-hee, who is more precious than I am, have been."
The so-called "OldarK (Joan of Arc of Olympic Park," who caused controversy by blocking officials of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) from entering the ballot-counting site protest scene at Olympic Park in Songpa District, Seoul, shared these thoughts after avoiding detention.
On the 22nd, attorney Park Joo-hyun released a video interview on the YouTube channel "Attorney Park Joo-hyun TV" with a woman in her 30s, identified as A, who had been released. Known as OldarK mainly on conservative-leaning online communities, A was freed from a detention center that day after a warrant for her arrest was rejected the previous afternoon.
In the video, A said, "Should I call it a once-in-a-lifetime precious opportunity? A lot of thoughts came to mind," and confessed that she thought of First Lady Kim Keon-hee, who is currently imprisoned at Southern Detention Center in Guro District.
A said, "I was the only woman in the detention center. So there were a few inconveniences," and added, "I'm this uncomfortable, so how uncomfortable must First Lady Kim Keon-hee, who is more precious than I am, have been? That thought came to me." She continued, "I thought I should write her a letter sometime."
A is under suspicion (obstruction of business, etc.) of wrapping a U.S. flag around her waist on June 16 and holding the doorknob of Entrance 2-1 of the Handball Gymnasium for nearly two hours to block employees of the Korean Sport & Olympic Committee (KSOC) from entering their offices. Seo Beom-jun, a warrant-assigned presiding judge at the Seoul Eastern District Court, held a pre-arrest suspect interrogation (substantive warrant review) for A at 2:30 p.m. on the 21st to examine the need for detention and rejected the arrest warrant, saying, "The risk of destroying evidence or fleeing is not recognized."