Lee Young-don PD sued Yoon Ho-jung, chairman of the Democratic Party's joint emergency committee, and Won Hee-ryong, Minister of Land, Transport and Tourism, as well as the netizens who left a bad note about the actor's late young-ae Kim.
According to the legal system on August 28, Lee Young-don PD recently filed a complaint against the defamation charges against Yoon Ho-jung, the deputy chairman of the non-governmental committee, Won Hee-ryong, and the netizens who left malicious comments.
Lee Young-don PD posted a video on "Lee Young-don PD, launches a court battle" on his YouTube channel "Lee Young-donTV" on the 25th. He said in the video that he would sue them for defamation by timely false facts.
Lee Young-don PD has become famous in the past for producing exploration reporting programs such as 'consumer accusation' and 'food X file'. However, the broadcasting industry has been controversial several times in the process of producing broadcasting. Especially, the biggest problem was the 'consumer complaint' dealing with the 'Hwangto Pack' company. At that time, heavy metals and iron powder were detected in the loess pack, and the company said, "Magnet is only a unique ingredient of loess, which is a false report." According to the results of the investigation, there was a difference from the facts in the contents of the broadcast, but Lee Young-don PD was found not guilty of both civil and criminal charges because of the reason for illegal sculpture. However, KBS paid 300 million won to the pilgrims in violation of the court's disposition to prohibit broadcasting.
Since then, the sales of the chontowon have plummeted and eventually went bankrupt. Actor Yeong-ae Kim, who was the major shareholder of the chontowon, suffered a great economic difficulty and divorced. Yeong-ae Kim later died in 2017 during a pancreatic cancer battle, and Lee Young-don PD, two years later, said in 2019: "I felt the pain I had suffered and wanted to apologize for a long time. I have been suffering for a long time, but I have not been able to apologize. I know it is late, but I want to apologize to Mr. Yeong-ae Kim. "
The incident has since begun to affect all of Lee Young-don PD's moves. Lee Young-don PD was recruited as the head of the media general manager at the presidential candidate camp of Hong Joon-pyo in September last year, but criticism was fierce and the recruitment was eventually suspended. Yoon Ho-jung, the Democratic Party leader at the time, said that the late Yeong-ae Kim had disappeared into pancreatic cancer after complaining of extreme pain after Lee Young-don PD's heavy metal loess pack broadcast.
Lee Young-don PD said, "There have been several reports that there is no connection in the case of the Great Castella, and the Hwangto Pack case was finally acquitted by the court. I do not think politicians have made such a claim without knowing this fact, "he said, foreshadowing legal disputes.