By Park Si-soo
Over a million people have signed an online petition calling for President Moon Jae-in’s impeachment.
As of 1 p.m. Thursday, the petition ― posted on the president’s office website ― had garnered 1,017,689 signatures, a twofold increase in a day, reflecting growing public disapproval of the President.
The petition criticizes Moon for his poor handling of the widening public health disaster and adoption of what its writer claims is “ineffective” measures to curb domestic infections of coronavirus while ignoring voices calling for a comprehensive entry block of people from China, the outbreak’s epicenter.
“Looking at how President Moon handles the coronavirus crisis gives me the feeling that he is the President of China, not South Korea,” the petition reads.
“The primary role of the President is keeping citizens safe and doing everything to protect them. If he has this in mind, why doesn’t he ban the entry of people coming from China? The government’s measures to counter (the crisis) are ineffective and useless, and devoid of a fundamental countermeasure, which is an entry ban from ground-zero.”
It is the second 200,000-plus signature petition calling for Moon’s impeachment. The first, last April, was prompted by petitioners’ claims of Moon being unwilling to thwart North Korea’s development of nuclear weapons.
