By Jun Ji-hye
A maverick novelist, Lee Oi-soo, denied the Chosun Ilbo’s report on Wednesday that he warned opposition netizens against using abusive language when commenting on a meeting he had with the ruling Saenuri Party’s presidential candidate Park Geun-hye last week, through his Twitter page.
Following the report, Lee whose nickname is Twitter president with over 1 million followers tweeted, “They wrote the article based on speculation, not on investigation.”
Lee has said through his Twitter on Monday that “I am warning you. It is fine even if you attack me with mean words. But you should bear in mind that the presidential candidate you follow will lose votes from hundreds of thousands people if I post one tweet in response to your violent language.”
Although the liberal novelist didn’t specify the reason why he uploaded those tweets, the daily reported that it is related to his meeting with the daughter of the late President Park Chung-hee on Sept. 25.
Park visited Lee in Hwacheon, Gangwon Province a day after she delivered a formal apology for past affairs which occurred during her father’s regime including the People’s Revolutionary Party incident that resulted in the execution of eight people in 1975.
While they talked for about an hour and a half, Lee told Park that he wanted to applaud her bravery for holding a press conference to make the apology and understood how hard it was to do this, according to the Saenuri Party’s spokeswoman, Cho Yoon-seon. Chosun Ilbo said some opposition netizens criticized and attacked Lee using bad language regarding this meeting and the comments he subsequently made.