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is also news about CEO Lee Jae-myung. Representative Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party, who was put on trial for publishing false facts during the last presidential election, appeared in court for the first time today (3rd). We will connect with an investigative reporter at the Seoul Central District Court to find out the status of the trial.

Kang Min-woo, has the trial of Lee Jae-myung resumed?

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Yes, not yet. The trial, which began at 10:40 a.m., was interrupted for lunch at half-past 12 p.m. and is scheduled to resume shortly thereafter at 2:20 p.m.

Let's take a look at this representative coming out of the morning trial.

[Representative Lee Jae-myung/Democratic Party: (The prosecution today revealed specific indictments, please tell us something.) ....]

Lee did not specifically respond to questions from reporters, as he did in his morning appearance, and he did not directly state his position at the morning trial.

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Lee Jae-myung did not directly state his thoughts at the morning hearing. So how did the morning hearing go?

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In the morning, both the prosecution and Lee displayed the materials on the screen, reading the indictment and refuting the charges, respectively.

Prosecutors argued that saying that he "did not know about him when he was mayor" of the late Kim Moon-ki, the first director of development of the Seongnam Urban Development Corporation, a practitioner of the Daejang-dong development project, amounted to a false declaration of facts for the election.

In October of the same year, the Gyeonggi Provincial Government's government audit said that regarding the alleged preferential treatment of Baek Hyun-dong, Representative Lee said, "The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport pressured the repurposing and threatened to make it a problem for dereliction of duty if it did not do so," which the prosecution also considered to be false.

Lee has denied the allegations outright.

He countered that the standard of knowing a person has a relative and evaluative component, and cannot be proved simply by content and number of times.

In particular, Lee emphasized that he traveled with Mr. Kim on a business trip, saying, "When I was mayor of Seongnam, I went on 1 overseas business trips, and about 10 people went together at a time, and I don't know if I can remember the employee who went with me on one of them."

After confirming the positions of both sides, the tribunal will examine the evidence presented by the prosecution in the afternoon.

(Video Interview: Seol Min-hwan, Video Editing: Kim Jun-hee, Field Proceedings: Edited by Chan-hyung)