”Pardoned” Cho Kuk ”regrets” party spokesman's departure from party... ”I couldn't do anything because I was not a party member” = South Korea

Cho Kuk, aka "Onion Man" and former South Korean Minister of Justice, chairman of the Innovation Policy Research Committee of the Fatherland Reform Party, commented on the announcement by Spokesperson Kang Mi-jung to leave the party due to a sexual misconduct scandal within the party.
"As a non-party member, there was nothing I could do," Cho said in a statement on his Facebook page on the 4th, saying, "I would like to express my deepest condolences to the victims who have suffered great pain."
"I will reflect on whether I have done anything shortcoming. I will strive to ensure zero-tolerance punishment and complete compensation for damages," she wrote.
He continued, "I regret that I should have acted a little more quickly."
"After the investigation, I heard that the perpetrator had been expelled from the party, and I thought the matter was over," he added. "At the time, I had been stripped of my party position and was a non-party member, so I did what I could to
"I had no role to play," he said, explaining, "I decided that for me, a non-party member, to intervene in this process would be a disregard for the party's systems and procedures."
Meanwhile, Kang held a press conference at the National Assembly on the same day and said that the party had taken an ambiguous stance in the process of resolving the sexual misconduct case.
He claimed that he had shown his true colors and declared his departure from the party, saying, "I came to this press conference to talk about the cruel reality."
"The worst kind of duplicity is to shout 'reform' while aiding injustice (inside)," he said, pointing out, "How can a political party that cannot even correct its own internal mistakes talk about 'reform' in front of the public?"