Opposition leader Lee Jae-myung accused the government and the ruling People Power Party (PPP) on Monday of churning out pork-barrel promises in an attempt to woo voters ahead of the general elections. Lee, the chairman of the Democratic Party (DP), made the accusations, saying President Yoon Suk Yeol and PPP leader Han Dong-hoon have been traveling around the country while "overissuing rosy pledges and policies" that could cost the country 1,000 trillion won (US$750.8 billion). "They are dishing out some 1,000 trillion won worth of rosy campaign pledges and policies, but are they capable of keeping them?" Lee said during a party meeting held in Incheon, west of Seoul. "Now is not the time to carry out a policy scam. ... We have to implement economic and livelihood policies that are truly helpful to people." The DP chairman also criticized the government's hardline response to the doctors' protest against the government's decision to substantially boost the number of medical school seats as the walkout en tered its seventh day Monday. "Looking back, this government is putting forward prosecutors to resolve matters with fists instead of words. A representative example is its response to the physicians' walkout," he said. The remark is a swipe at the government's decision Sunday, to dispatch a prosecutor to the health ministry for legal consultations after the government warned of legal actions against doctors engaged in collective action. As of Monday, more than 9,000 trainee doctors have left their worksites, while the number of trainee doctors who submitted resignations topped 10,000, according to the Ministry of Health and Welfare. Source: Yonhap News Agency