"Choi Sang-mok's remarks on 'Fact of Impeachment'"...Ministry of Economy and Finance, "It's not true."

It was argued that Choi Sang-mok, acting president and deputy prime minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance, said at a closed foreign economic advisory meeting held three days after the declaration of the emergency martial law, "Impeachment is a given anyway."

Kim Yang-hee, a professor of economics and finance at Daegu University, wrote on his SNS that he remembered the remarks made by Choi Sang-mok, then deputy prime minister for economy.

At the time, Deputy Prime Minister Choi then wrote that this was the third impeachment he experienced as a public official, and that he was surprisingly calm, saying, "The impeachment is a given anyway."

Professor Kim said at the time that he believed the words were still valid and urged him to decide on the appointment of a judge of the Constitutional Court to impeach him, which is a given anyway.

In response, the Ministry of Strategy and Finance issued an explanatory document and immediately refuted that Acting President Choi Sang-mok had never made a statement to the effect that President Yoon's impeachment was a given.