Oh Se-hoon said, "Myeong Tae-kyun's poll and money transactions are both false."

Mayor Oh directly refuted the claim that Myung Tae-kyun, a key figure in the "suspected intervention in the nomination," conducted a poll for Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon, calling it "outrageous."

Jonghyun Lee, Seoul's special advisor for people's livelihoods, said that candidate Oh's camp had never received a single poll or other data that Myung Tae-kyun provided during the 2021 Seoul mayoral by-election.

The special report explained that there was a conflict with camp aides when Myung came to the election camp at the time, and that the headquarters did not contact him at all.

Mr. Kim, an acquaintance of Mayor Oh who said he paid for the poll, stressed that he was not an official of the camp, let alone the chairman of Mayor Oh's sponsorship, and that he did not know whether the two had any financial relationship.

Kim Byung-min, deputy mayor of Seoul Metropolitan Government, also dismissed the allegations as unfounded, such as "Ecotang Season 2," urging Mayor Oh to reveal to whom the 13 opinion polls that he did for Mayor Oh were delivered.