It looks like Rhyu Si-min (60), the chairman of the Roh Moo-hyun Foundation, will be the relief pitcher for the Moon Jae-in government. Despite numerous public statements that he has no intention to run for public office, Rhyu's YouTube debut was a hit as he represented the ruling party and government and fought the conservative press and opposition parties. Some people claim this is a deja vu of when Rhyu abandoned his role as a "knowledge retailer" and rolled up his sleeves as the “political security chief” of the presidential candidate Roh Moo-hyun in 2002.

At midnight on January 5, Rhyu posted the first episode of Rhyu Si-min's Alileo(a pun suggesting “We’ll inform you.”), on the YouTube channel, "The Roh Moo-hyun Foundation, a World Where People Live." By the night of January 6, the video had been viewed more than 1.8 million times, establishing itself as a popular show on YouTube. The number of subscribers, who regularly receive channel updates, instantly surpassed 470,000.

In the first episode, Rhyu invited Moon Chung-in, a special advisor to the president, and said, "Many of the policies that the government is implementing was initiated by the Participatory Government and by the People's Government, but they have failed to properly receive the spotlight, been greatly distorted and sometimes even uprooted." He added, "We will serve as a navigator, heading toward the root, background and key information of the policies that we come across in our world."

According to one view, Rhyu silenced the argument that in the past the YouTube accounts on politics and current affairs mainly consisted of conservatives and the middle-aged. People eyed TV Hongca Cola, a channel by Hong Joon-pyo, the former leader of the Liberty Korea Party, which is expected to compete against Rhyu’s show in a race between the progressives and the conservatives, has 220,000 subscribers. Rhyu's channel gathered more subscribers with his first episode than TV Hongca Coladid in three weeks. Hong wrote on Facebook, "I think the leftist YouTuber, which is like the North Korean Central TV, will run out of topics in a month."

Voices in the ruling party said that season two of Rhyu as the “political security chief” had begun. They said it was like seeing Rhyu from 2002 again. In 2002, Rhyu declared that he would abandon writing and jump into politics, as if he were "holding a Molotov cocktail in front of a barricade", against a council that sought to stand behind a single presidential candidate and threatened Roh Moo-hyun, the candidate of the Millennium Democratic Party. The timing is also interesting. Rhyu freely worked as a writer and entertainer in the first year and a half of the Moon Jae-in government. But as the Moon Jae-in government heads into its second and third year, Rhyu began work as a "political entertainer" on YouTube and podcasts. Strangely, this comes just after President Moon faced the "death cross," a point where negative assessments exceeds positive ones in his approval rating.

Some people argue that Rhyu may have emerged at a time of crisis like the last time, but that the situation has changed. In 2002, he became a politician establishing the Reform National Party, but in 2019, he repeatedly announced that he would remain an outsider. On January 7, the Roh Moo-hyun Foundation will further release Rhyu Si-min's Gochileo(a pun suggesting “We will fix it.”). Rhyu is expected to deny the possibility of his return to politics in this show.