SEOUL — In a current interview with British newspaper The Guardian, Cho Dong-youn, a former co-head of the Democratic Get together of Korea candidate Lee Jae-myung’s presidential marketing campaign, revealed that she had contemplated taking her personal life after revelations about her private life had been made on-line, inflicting an onslaught of on-line bullying.
The allegation that Cho had a toddler out of wedlock — which she later revealed was the results of a sexual assault — was made by a controversial far-right YouTuber Kang Yong-suk, and in the end led to the downfall of Cho’s political profession.
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