Examining the Responsibility of Jeonbuk-do in the Saemangeum Jamboree Controversy: A Closer Look at Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hyun-sook’s Role

2023-08-13 14:48:36

Gender Equality and Family Minister Kim Hyun-sook is attending the Saemangeum Jamboree Emergency Response Team meeting held at the Seoul Government Complex on the morning of the 12th. yunhap news

“In the original system where the organizing committee was jointly organized, the responsible body was the executive chairman. So, Jeonbuk-do is the chairman of the executive committee, and the Minister of Leisure is an auxiliary or supporting institution. So, it should be seen as such a structure in which the primary responsibility lies with Jeonbuk Province and the leisure department has secondary responsibilities.” In an interview with Ha Tae-kyung, a member of the People’s Power, on SBS radio’Kim Tae-hyun’s Political Show’ on the 11th. Even on the 8th, when the early withdrawal of the Jamboree was implemented, he said, “If the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family had disappeared, the competition would have gone much better.” During the interview’), after three days, the arrow of criticism moved from the Leisure Department to Jeonbuk-do. It is interpreted that the target of criticism was changed when concerns were raised that holding the ministry responsible for leisure could be seen as acknowledging the responsibility of the current government. In fact, on the side of the ruling party, the power of the people, there is an atmosphere in which the responsibility for this jamboree is shifted to the former government and Jeonbuk-do. In particular, mentioning the fact that Jeonbuk-do (more precisely, the governor of Jeonbuk-do) participated in this Jamboree as the ‘executive chairman’, and despite receiving direct and indirect budget benefits of at least 2.6 trillion won from the Jamboree, infrastructure facilities such as reclamation and drainage of the competition site It seems that they are going on the offensive because they did not properly prepare facilities and convenience facilities. Even though they knew that the tidal flat landfill was unsuitable for a summer campsite, they are ‘suspicious’ for making irrational measures to speed up the sluggish Saemangeum development project and increase the amount of government support.

Democratic Party lawmaker Kim Yoon-deok, one of the co-chairs of the Jamboree Organizing Committee, is bowing his head apologizing after holding a press conference on the afternoon of the 13th at the Communication Hall of the National Assembly regarding the controversy over the Jamboree’s limping. Senior Reporter Kim Kyung-ho [e-mail]

The dictionary definition of ‘executive committee’ is ‘an institution that executes the resolutions of a convention (large meeting or meeting), and ‘executive chairman’ means ‘the head of the executive committee’. Rep. Ha is simply criticizing that Jeonbuk Province is responsible because the Governor of Jeonbuk Province served as the chairman of the executive committee and actually ‘executed’ the Jamboree event plan. However, if you look at the ‘2023 Saemangeum World Scout Jamboree Support Special Act’ (Jamboree Support Act), etc., which stipulates who is responsible for the Jamboree’s planning, preparation, and operation, such an offensive loses power. It is true that the governor of Jeonbuk Province is in charge of the executive chairman, but the final decision-making power eventually converges on the co-organizing chairperson, including the Minister of Leisure and Leisure. Specifically, the Jamboree Support Act, which was enforced in 2018, points to the ‘Organizing Committee’ as the subject of establishing and implementing the Jamboree’s comprehensive/operational plan and establishing and implementing related facility installation/use plans. And the authority to approve the composition of the organizing committee rests with the ‘Minister of Leisure and Leisure’. (In addition, large-scale budget support for the Jamboree or the authority to deliberate and adjust related policies is held by the ‘Governmental Support Committee’, chaired by the Prime Minister and vice-chaired by the Ministers of Strategy and Finance, Education, and Leisure.) In addition, the Organizing Committee The chairperson, vice chairperson, executive committee member and auditor are appointed as executives, and the ‘executive committee’ can be set up for efficient promotion of work along with the ‘committee general meeting’. When the Organizing Committee was launched in July 2020, the Articles of Incorporation stipulated the roles of the General Assembly and the Executive Committee in more detail.

Members who attended the ‘2023 Saemangeum World Scout Jamboree’ event greet each other at Incheon International Airport on the afternoon of the 13th. Reporter Kim Hye-yoon [e-mail]

The general committee chairperson (from May 2022 until recently, Minister of Leisure Kim Hyun-sook and Democratic Party member Kim Yoon-deok were co-chairs, but at the end of February this year, Minister of Public Administration and Security Lee Sang-min, Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Park Bo-gyun, and Korea Scout Federation President Kang Tae-sun were added to the 5 It is composed of a co-chairman system), a vice-chairman, an executive committee member, and an auditor. At the general meeting of the members held at the convocation of the chairman, the matters to be delegated to the executive committee are deliberated and resolved. An official from the Organizing Committee explained in a recent phone call with the Hankyoreh, “Very important decisions are made at the general meeting of the committee, but in practice, details are entrusted to the Secretary General of the Organizing Committee for execution.” Moreover, it is not only Jeonbuk Province that is participating in the enforcement action. Currently, the Jamboree Organizing Committee website, etc., are not revealing the details of the personnel participating in the executive committee. However, according to media reports at the time of the launch of the organizing committee in 2020, 20 officials from related organizations, including the administrative governor of Jeonbuk-do and the head of Buan-gun, as well as the secretary general of the Jamboree Organizing Committee, the vice minister of the Ministry of Leisure, the head of the Youth and Family Policy Office of the Ministry of Gender, Saemangeum Development Agency, and the chairman of the Korea Youth Promotion Agency, participated in the executive activity. It turns out to be doing In short, it means that Jeonbuk-do participated as one of the numerous executive committee members involved in the preparation of the event. In addition, the annual business plan and budget of the Organizing Committee must be approved by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family after the resolution of the Executive Committee, and the business performance of each fiscal year must also be submitted to the Ministry of Gender Equality after a resolution by the Executive Council. In the end, even if the Executive Committee arbitrarily decides on major Jamboree business plans and plans to spend the budget, it is a system that the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family can (or should) filter out in the final approval process.

A view of the Jeonbuk Provincial Government Building. Hankyoreh data photo

Rep. Ha spoke in an interview as if the executive chairman had real power, but out of the total Jamboree project cost of 117.1 billion won (before the Jamboree event) executed for three years from 2021, only 26.5 billion won was directly used by Jeonbuk Province. This is 23% of the total budget. According to data released by the Organizing Committee, Jeonbuk Province used it in the name of △creation of infrastructure such as water supply and sewerage (20.5 billion won) △creation of a large assembly hall (3 billion won) △forced drainage facilities such as installation of 100 simple pumping stations (3 billion won). Of the remaining total budget, 86 billion won was used by the organizing committee and 3.6 billion won by Buan-gun. Of the 86 billion won, 13 billion won was used for facility expenses such as setting up a campground, and out of the 74 billion won for operating expenses, only 8.4 billion won was used for personnel expenses, and 65.6 billion won was used for camping and program operation expenses. Right after the opening, as well as after Typhoon Kanun passed, mud and water puddles were found here and there in the Saemangeum campground, raising doubts about whether the budget was properly executed. As the public opinion that Jeonbuk-do has the ‘primary responsibility’ rises, Jeonbuk-do is also poised to actively respond, saying, “We are checking each and every fact that has been misinformed and inflated through media reports.” A high-ranking Jeonbuk-do official said in a phone call with the Hankyoreh on the 13th, “It cannot be said that we are not responsible, but since most of the Jamboree’s disruption is attacked by politicians and others as our responsibility, we concluded that we can’t just suffer like this. We are calmly sorting out the exact responsibilities and facts, starting with the related laws.” It is interpreted with the intention of examining the ‘2023 Saemangeum World Scout Jamboree Support Special Act’. Jeonbuk Governor Kim Kwan-young plans to hold a press conference on the morning of the 14th to explain his position. Reporter Chae Yoon-tae [e-mail] Reporter Se-jin Oh [e-mail] Reporter Im-geun Park [e-mail]
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