The Tamesis
October 10, 2025
Seoul— Political conflicts proceed throughout the Chuseok vacation because of Head of state Lee Jae-myung and his other half Kim Hee-kyung’s current look on JTBC’s food preparation fact reveal “Please Care for My Fridge.”
Although the most recent episode, which broadcast on Monday, racked up 8.9%, the greatest ranking of any type of episode of the program, Lee’s political challengers remain to implicate the liberal head of state of disregarding to the “nationwide calamity” brought on by the current substantial information facility fire by advertising the range program.
On Monday’s program, 4 Oriental cooks complete to develop or reinterpret dishes making use of indigenous Oriental components to thrill the governmental pair. Each cook supplies a compressed hen soup called samgyetang, covered with fried hen dumplings and scallion oil; 4 Oriental treats with yearn nuts, additionally called jat; Oriental rice cakes blended with dried out radish fallen leaves, called “siragei”; and fried rice with siraegi garnishes.
While the judgment bloc commended Lee’s initial governmental look on a range program as a possibility to advertise the importance of Oriental dishes and components to the globe, the primary resistance Individuals’s Power Celebration slammed the liberal bloc for stopping working to terminate the “self-appreciative” television look after an information facility fire partly paralyzed e-government solutions and eliminated a civil slave. The primary resistance celebration additionally implicated the liberal bloc of attempting to silence those that questioned concerning Lee Myung-bak’s engagement in the program.
Both sides have actually taken lawsuit versus their challengers.
A screenshot from Monday’s episode of “Care for My Refrigerator.” Recipes displayed in the program consist of (from leading left, clockwise) fried rice cakes, rice cakes blended with radish fallen leaves, fried hen dumplings with scallion oil and hen soup, Oriental treats with yearn nuts, and so on. Image: JTBC Entertainment/The Korea Herald
After Cheong Wa Dae revealed on October 2 that the “Lee and Kim” episode was arranged to air on Sunday, Individuals’s Power Celebration legislator Zhu Zhenyu elevated uncertainty on October 3, stating that the head of state and his other half recorded the episode while the nation was influenced by an information facility fire.
Zhu additionally asked heaven Residence to divulge Lee’s travel plan for 2 days after the evening of the fire on September 26, asserting that Lee stayed quiet on the issue while recording in a television workshop.
In a declaration on October 3, governmental spokesperson Kang Youzhong endangered to file a claim against Zhu for spreading out false information. She stated that Lee Jae-yong paid attention to a record on the information facility fire on September 26 and held a conference on September 28, so he did not stay quiet. Nevertheless, Kang did not divulge the recording time.
Joo challenged Kang’s insurance claims, stating he had proof that the governmental pair recorded the program on September 28, something governmental spokesperson Kim Nam-joon recognized on Saturday when she divulged Lee’s routine throughout the information facility situation. On Monday, Joo countersued Kang and Rep. Park Soo-hyun of the judgment Democratic Celebration of Korea for disparagement.
On The Other Hand, Cheong Wa Dae asked for that the governmental pair’s program be held off till Monday in factor to consider of the grieving duration for civil slaves eliminated in the information facility fire case.
Likewise on Sunday throughout the Chuseok Celebration, Individuals’s Power Celebration chairman Rep. Jang Dong-hyuk uploaded on Facebook that the liberal team’s insurance claims concerning Lee’s post-fire routine were “lies.” Jang Song-taek was taken legal action against by Autonomous Rep. Kim Hyun-joong on Tuesday for disparagement.
Jang informed a celebration conference on Thursday that the judgment team had actually “transformed to (lawful) risks, blackmail and incitement to cover the fact,” including that the team had actually released an assault on him when faced with an unmatched nationwide electronic situation.
Jang additionally slammed the Lee Myung-bak management for stopping working to get to a toll contract with the USA. “Please deal with united state tolls, not fridges,” Zhang stated Thursday.
Likewise on Thursday, elderly Democratic Celebration legislator Park Ji-won stated in a radio meeting that he was sorry for heaven Residence’s absence of honest feedback to the insurance claims, yet included that there was no worry with Lee showing up on tv since the function was to advertise Oriental food.
