2024-07-29 11:07:00
Lee Jin-sook, candidate for chairman of the Korean Communications Commission, attended a congressional personnel hearing on the 26th and listened to questions from members. Senior reporter Kim Kyung-ho jijae@hani.co.kr
Lee Jin-sook, a candidate for the chairman of the Korea Communications Commission (KCC), used her company card to pay for Sogang University parking lots many times when she was the president of Daejeon Broadcasting Corporation (MBC). On the day of parking, she went to a restaurant near Sogang University. The candidate’s company card was used and it turned out to be this. Opposition parties, media and civil society groups claim that candidate Lee is essentially refusing to verify a series of accusations of illegal use of corporate credit cards and will not respond to the forced recruitment of “comfort women” because it is a serious issue. When he exposed the issue, everyone agreed he should resign immediately.
On the 29th, the office of Lee Hoon-ki, a member of the Democratic Party and a member of the National Assembly’s Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, conducted an investigation into candidate Lee’s company card usage history for three years (2015 to 2018). More cases of alleged misuse of company cards for personal purposes.
Specifically, between April 2015 and December 2017, Candidate Lee used his company card to pay parking lot usage fees more than a dozen times at the Sogang International Dormitory of Sogang University Parking Lot Management Company in Mapo-gu, Seoul. “Business trip parking fee” is indicated in the “Document Summary” column indicating the reason for expenditure. The period when he paid the parking fee at the parking lot of Sogang University greatly overlapped with the period when candidate Lee served as the president of Daejeon Culture Broadcasting and completed a master’s degree in political science from Sogang University (2015-2017) and a master’s degree in political science from Korea National University. (2017-2018). This means the candidate may have used a company vehicle to attend graduate school while serving as president.
In this regard, members of the National Assembly’s Strategic Defense Committee Democratic Party and Grassroots Innovation Party said that through an on-site investigation at Daejeon Culture Broadcasting on the 27th, they found that candidate Lee spent 4.2 million to 6.72. During his tenure as president, he used company cards to pay 100 per month. Ten thousand won. This far exceeds the monthly limit of 2.2 million won for the Presidential Business Card. This also includes fees paid at restaurants, Japanese restaurants and bakeries near Sogang University.
During his confirmation hearing, candidate Lee called the issue of forced conscription of comfort women by the Japanese army a “controversial issue,” which exposed his pro-Japanese and far-right views on history and caused increasing controversy. The United for Justice and Memory issued a statement on the same day, saying that “the issue of sexual slavery in the Japanese military is not a ‘controversial’ or ‘personal’ issue,” adding, “This candidate, who has anti-human rights and pro-Japanese historical views, should not be elected. Any public position, let alone serving as chairman of the Korean Communications Commission. Earlier, candidate Lee asked at a hearing: “What is your stance on the Japanese comfort women issue? When Choi Min-hee, chairman of the National Defense Commission, was asked whether it would be mandatory or voluntary, he replied: “I won’t answer because it is a controversial issue.” Candidate Lee immediately canceled his speech, but when Chairman Choi continued to ask questions, he stood his ground and said, “I will not respond to individual questions.” “
Regarding the controversy over candidate Lee’s ineligibility, Rep. Lee Hoon-ki said: “Candidate Lee has continued to engage in criminal behavior for many years, using corporate credit cards to spend more than the average annual salary of ordinary people and the middle class. He even showed that Far-right behavior.
Candidate Lee responded to the accusation of illegal use of company cards discovered after an on-site investigation of Daejeon Culture Broadcasting by opposition party members, saying, “I use a commercial vehicle to and from Seoul on days when I go to work and attend classes. , the route is very close, he replied to the Hankyoreh Daily: “It is carried out according to business arrangements. “
Reporter Choi Sung-jin Park Kang-soo csj@hani.co.kr
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