Presidential golf workshop..."KYUNG HO should cut the budget" vs. "Anger party".

Minju said, "Golf report since last summer..."A controversial lie".

"Golf Correspondent Booked...Excessive security and press suppression"

Presidential Office "Presidential Sports Activities Are Not Subject to Political Conflict"

Security Service "Suspect of Trump's attempted assassination is also undercover for 12 hours."

[Anchor]
President Yoon Suk Yeol's golf controversy was on the cutting board in the National Assembly Steering Committee's budget review of the presidential office.

The opposition party warned of a budget cut, saying that the presidential security agency's response at the golf course was excessive, but the people's power was against Lee Jae-myung's first sentence.

I'm reporter Na Hye-in.

[Reporter]
The Democratic Party claimed that President Yoon Suk Yeol has been inundated with reports that he has enjoyed golf at various military golf courses since last summer.

The presidential office's explanation that he started practicing for diplomacy with U.S. President-elect Trump is false.

[Kang Yoo-jung / Democratic Party member: It's a joint military training period. Golf is prohibited for military personnel. But on August 24th, I played presidential golf. Did you expect Trump to be elected?]

He also criticized the security service as a "press suppression," saying that it booked reporters who were covering the golf course and took away their mobile phones.

[Rep. Ko Min-jung / Minjoo Party of Korea: I think we should cut all the budgets we have. What's the difference between intimidating the people, ruthlessly oppressing the media, and the days of the current Cha Ji-cheol?]

The president's office insisted that it could not confirm when President Yoon played golf, but defended the president's sports activities as meaningful.

[Hong Chul-ho / Senior Secretary for Political Affairs at the Presidential Office: If President Trump asked us to do a rounding together, we can't play golf at all, can we?]

The security service claimed that it was justified to block reporters' coverage of the attempted assassination of Trump, who had been lurking for 12 hours at the golf course.

The power of the people also said that the president's golf has never been the subject of such criticism, and that the opposition party's budget cuts are a source of resentment.

[Kang Myung-gu / National People's Power: After the first trial of Lee Jae-myung, all they do is cut the government budget and tie both hands and feet of the presidential office....]

There was also a bitter war of words over the opposition's attempt to disclose the personal information of the presidential office's administrators, who were designated as the so-called "Kim Gun-hee Line."

[Limja / People's Power: What do you mean "Chilsangsi" to young administrators? It's insulting to them to put their faces up like this..]

[Park Chan-dae / Chairman of the National Assembly (Democratic Party of Korea)] [Limja, why do you keep talking informally? (Park Chan-dae) Why do you keep talking informally?]

The presidential office stressed that it has set aside next year's budget to focus on essential expenses for summit diplomacy, but the opposition party has threatened to sharply cut the opaque budget, including special activity expenses.

I'm Na Hye-in from YTN.

Photographer: Lee Sang-chang
Video editing: Yeon Jin-young