The light green tie worn by National Assembly Speaker Woo Won-sik when he declared the impeachment motion against President Yoon Suk Yeol has become a hot topic.
At the plenary session of the National Assembly held on the 14th, Chairman Woo held silence for a while with the ballot counting paper and officially announced the news of the approval, saying, "I will tell you the results of the vote."
On this day, Chairman Woo was wearing a light green tie, and he wore a camellia badge symbolizing the Jeju April 3 incident along with a badge of a member of the National Assembly.
Earlier, Chairman Woo also wore the tie when voting on a resolution calling for the lifting of the emergency martial law in the early morning of the 4th.
The tie is said to be a keepsake of the late Kim Geun-tae, a former standing advisor of the Democratic United Party (the predecessor of the Democratic Party), who was called Woo's "political teacher" and "the godfather of the democratization movement."
After martial law was lifted on the 4th, Chairman Woo said on social media (SNS), "I wore a light green tie, which is Kim Geun-tae's keepsake for the first time in a long time. I always wore this tie when I had to make a big decision, he said. "Every time I wore a tie, I would ask and make a pledge to myself, 'Kim Geun-tae, please help me, give me courage.'"
Some analysts say that he avoided ties that could appear in a specific party color to protect his neutrality as chairman.
Meanwhile, Woo recently ranked No. 1 in the reliability survey of important political figures. He is evaluated for leading the National Assembly in a stable manner by observing legal procedures in the emergency martial law situation and the settlement phase.
Reporter Park Sun-young of Digital News Team
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