Tensions flared again between Democratic Party leader Kim Min-seok and his predecessor Jung Chung-rae after a memo reading "Seoul mayoral candidate Jung Chung-rae" was spotted in Kim's notebook.
A photograph taken by Dailian on the 9th showed the memo listing Jung's name among possible candidates for Seoul mayor in a notebook Kim opened during a plenary session at the National Assembly.
Jung responded immediately. "Last time you toyed with me holding a microphone, and now you're hitting me with a notebook," he wrote on Facebook. "I find this offensive." He added: "You attacked me enough with negative campaigning during the party convention. The convention is over and you won, so why do you keep hitting the person who lost? Isn't this too cruel?"
Jung took particular issue with being placed on the list of potential Seoul mayoral candidates. "Min-seok and Young-gil, who dreamed of becoming Seoul mayor and lost, are also good candidates, so write them down in your notebook too," he said. The remark referred to Kim and former party leader Song Young-gil, both of whom previously ran for the post, in a jab at Kim's memo.
Friction between the two has continued since the party convention. At a party workshop last month, Kim disclosed a conversation with Jung in which he said Jung had remarked that "there is no political center." Jung pushed back strongly at the time, calling Kim's remarks a "microphone dictatorship."
