The mayor of Gwangju is in a dilemma over President Yoon Suk Yeol’s town hall meeting in the city, as the liberal mayor’s previous requests for Yoon to hold the event in Gwangju are being used by the presidential office as a rationale to undermine the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea’s (DPK) criticisms of the president.
A plan to build a park in Gwangju in honor of communist composer Jeong Yul-seong, who was born in the city in southwestern Korea, has sparked sharp division in public opinion..