"Would you like to hear a seasoned Jeolla man's thorny curses on a budding spring day?"

I remained silent when Mr. Jeon Han-gil was arrested on charges of presidential defamation, not because I had nothing to say or lacked the spirit, but because I had no time.

I am a farmer. Some call me a pundit, others a columnist, and some a poet from Jeolla, but fundamentally, I am a farmer who enjoys working with the soil. Therefore, when the farming season arrives, I am swamped. I plant over 20 varieties. Or perhaps it's 30.

These days, it's vegetable season, and I'm on the verge of death picking things like thorny bamboo shoots, oak saplings, Acanthopanax leaves, and burdock, not to mention Korean feather grass and pennywort. There are over 17 types of vegetables. Still, if I share them with neighbors and make dried vegetables, they become winter side dishes. Of course, they don't make money. I don't sell them, naturally. The payment is the smile of the octogenarian neighbor who receives the vegetables, a smile as aged and rich as fermented salted hairtail.

So, I didn't have the leisure to even glance over when Mr. Jeon Han-gil was arrested and his arrest warrant was rejected. Today, it just so happens that it's raining, so I've found some time. When this rain stops, tomorrow I plan to transplant fish mint and wild chives, and expand my patch of Japanese wild garlic.

Sometimes, I compare Roh Moo-hyun and Lee Jae-myung. I've found the incessant talk about "Roh Moo-hyun's spirit" to be utterly ridiculous. I haven't seen a single person who can answer what "Roh Moo-hyun's spirit" actually is. Roh Moo-hyun's spirit was an illusion without substance, and the movie "The Attorney" was a fabrication by the "commies."

Roh Moo-hyun remains in our memory as the president who wanted to abolish the National Security Act. So, is the spirit of abolishing the National Security Act Roh Moo-hyun's spirit? Roh Moo-hyun was the man who sent 400,000 tons of rice to North Korea annually. Are we meant to carry on that spirit of giving?

Or perhaps it could be about inheriting the very spirit of cheating by pretending to lend the rice he gave away. To summarize, it would mean inheriting the spirit of tricking people by saying the rice given to North Korea was a loan, and the XXXX spirit of wanting to abolish the National Security Act is Roh Moo-hyun's spirit.

The X's in the "Democratic X-Jumble Party" constantly talk about peace. But don't get too fond of inter-Korean peace. North Korea is a nation that has done everything it pleased after receiving our rice. Even now, they launch missiles whenever they feel like it. Therefore, the theory of inter-Korean peace is an extension of the scam tactics (詐欺術) that pro-North leftists have been endlessly employing.

However, Roh Moo-hyun was a genuinely humanistic "commie" humanist. He didn't silence the voices of the citizens who criticized him. He was a truly humane president who allowed people to curse him, even when life was difficult. That is why, during the Roh Moo-hyun era, although we lived with anger, we had the freedom to curse, and there was no personal stress.

But Lee Jae-myung is ushering in a shallow era that doesn't even measure up to Roh Moo-hyun. Who is he to demand an arrest warrant for Mr. Jeon Han-gil for daring to criticize him? Even if it wasn't 160 trillion won, who would believe that Lee Jae-myung didn't take a single penny from the Daejang-dong project? How much are the amounts his subordinates Kim Man-bae and Kim Yong are flashing around?

He was an X who boasted that the Daejang-dong project was his greatest administrative achievement. The more I think about it, the more disgusted I become, churning my stomach. It's like encountering a shedding XXX in an alley on a late summer day.

When it comes to the Israeli issue, the situation becomes more serious. Israel's attack on Hamas in Palestine is because Israel was attacked first. On October 7, 2023, Hamas crossed the border, invaded Israel, and abducted numerous hostages.

They even kidnapped people of different nationalities. They killed numerous Israelis and even slit the throats of newborn infants, leaving them on hospital floors. Hamas were sub-human beings, devoid of any human rights.

Despite this, Lee Jae-myung criticized Israel's defensive actions, solely applying human rights to them. Israel was angered by Lee Jae-myung's actions. I believe he could become a target for Mossad, which pursues and kills its targets to the ends of the earth.

Israel has been a traditional ally that has supported only the Republic of Korea since its establishment. While Japan has become the world's second-largest economy and used its power to trample on us, changing world maps to call the East Sea the Sea of Japan and Dokdo Takeshima, Israel still marks them as the East Sea and Dokdo. In that regard, Israel is an ally that protects and supports the Republic of Korea, no matter what.

There was an announcement to support the human rights of the Iranian people with $500,000. This was an act that also invited the anger of the United States. The Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps and police responded to protests by citizens who rejected the clerical rule of the Iranian government with gunfire. It is reported that as many as 45,000 citizens have been killed by gunfire. Therefore, who is Lee Jae-myung giving $500,000 to now?

It is impossible that Lee Jae-myung was unaware of all these circumstances. As president, holding information from both domestic and international sources, it is impossible for him not to know the truth about Hamas and the Middle East situation. Therefore, his current actions are either intentional or he is supporting evil under someone's instructions.

He is truly a great villain. There are even rumors that as many as 20 people have lost their lives because of him. If we were in his position, we would be unable to lift our heads in sorrow and would have sought a place of atonement. Yet, he is still smiling.

The people of Iran are currently identifying targets for Israel and the United States to kill. They are providing the whereabouts of police chiefs and Revolutionary Guard commanders who ordered the shootings. It is known that this has enabled such precise bombing.

Lee Jae-myung is not the only one who must be feeling a prickle in the back of his neck. Wouldn't it be wonderful if we also informed the United States of the true nature of H Newspaper, K Newspaper, O News, etc., to prevent their members from entering the U.S. and to put an end to their deception of the public with fake news? They, who have no interest in the release of our citizens abducted by North Korea, dare to speak of human rights? I wish we could nail the idea of human rights and universal values into their mouths.

No matter how I look at it, there are no more despicable beings in the Republic of Korea than the communists. Their heads are communist, and their mouths are XXXX that eat meat, yet strangely, their mouths speak only the words of Confucius. Human rights, true education, equality, fairness? They are utter XXXX.

I wish they would be beaten like a dog's tongue in May and June and hung in the marketplace. It is said that you can recognize a rotten seed just by seeing it sprout in early spring. A president who imprisons people because he doesn't like what he hears!

Having only just dried his ink on his birth certificate from '63, at this point in time and place, who is he to try and play the emperor? Do you think this country is one where X's like you can do as they please?

Who gave you the right to change alliances at will? The United States and its people sent corn and flour to help us overcome the ruins of the Korean War and the tragedy of a fratricidal conflict, and sent dairy cows and honeybees so our children could drink milk. Those who criticize the United States, our traditional ally and friend who raised countless orphans, are our enemies. Therefore, you X's are our enemies.

You XXXX bumblebees who can't even urinate for three months and ten days after being stung. Do you want to read the Workers' Daily praising North Korea? Do you still chant "Long live Kim Jong-un"? You are the kind of people who would be dried in the blazing sun and made into squid jerky. You X's who went on overseas trips with female employees, and you who made yourselves candidates for mayor of Seoul, you must be at ease.

April 23, 2026. From Jeolla, Poet Jeong Jae-hak

◆ Poet Jeong Jae-hak

Poet, national merit recipient, columnist, Park Chung-hee Presidential Public Relations Committee member, served 36 years as an educator in Jeolla.