The attack on Bae Hyun-jin comes about a month after the country’s opposition party leader was stabbed in the neck while talking to reporters in the city of Busan.
Conspiracy theories suggesting that Tuesday's stabbing of Korea's main opposition party leader, Lee Jae-myung, was orchestrated by the victim himself have been spreading on the internet here, sparking outrage from the public and those in political circles in both the liberal and conservative camps. The 59-year-old leader of the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea was stabbed in the left side of the ne.
The ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Thursday appointed ten members to its emergency committee charged with leading the party into April s general elections.
When it was launched three weeks ago, the ruling People Power Party s (PPP) innovation committee under the direction of Ihn Yo-han, a naturalized Korean doctor, received much praise both from within and outside the party.