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Criticism of the Yongsan-gu Office was also poured in today’s hearing.
Park Hee-young, the arrested district chief, as well as the comments of a deputy mayor who said, “I thought one or two people would be injured,” were also controversial.
Reporter Jo Hee-won reports.
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Park Hee-young, the head of Yongsan-gu, who attended a hearing while imprisoned, also drew a line in his resignation request.
[용혜인/기본소득당 의원]
“Witness, will you resign while feeling responsible for this disaster?”
[박희영/용산구청장]
“The issue of resignation is not at the stage to be decided now.”
The manner in which he spoke was controversial throughout.
[박성민/국민의힘 의원]
“The mayor has to be on site. He has to inspect and give guidance.”
[박성민/국민의힘 의원, 박희영/용산구청장]
“I’m sorry?”
[박희영 용산구청장]
The deputy head of the area’s comment that one or two people were expected to be damaged was also a problem.
[박형수/국민의힘 의원]
“Shouldn’t you have expected that people could be injured, like the deputy mayor?”
[유승재/용산구청 부구청장]
“I expected that.”
[박형수/국민의힘 의원]
“Do?”
[유승재/용산구청 부구청장]
“So I expected one or two people to get hurt, but I didn’t expect such a big disaster…”
[박형수/국민의힘 의원]
“What do you mean? Aren’t one or two human lives?”
On the day of the disaster, an employee on duty at the Yongsan-gu Office cried out when it was pointed out that the ward office’s response was too inadequate.
[조원재/참사 당일 용산구청 당직사령]
“I am very, very, very, very sorry for the children and very sorry for the parents.”
The ruling party also disagreed with the activities of Representative Shin Hyun-young of the Democratic Party on the site, which caused controversy about ‘going to the doctor’s car’.
[김형동/국민의힘 의원, 차명일/국립중앙의료원 응급의료실장]
“Couldn’t Shin Hyun-young be a Demat agent?”
“What you wear is your ID, sort of.”
[조규홍/보건복지부 장관]
“That’s inappropriate behavior that doesn’t fit the handbook.”
[김교흥/더불어민주당 의원]
“Wandering around, the disaster was texted late, and after the situation happened, Mayor Se-Hoon Oh told the fire officials, what he said was Halloween, to the answering point (I was too indifferent)”
At the plenary meeting today, the opposition parties and the opposition parties passed a measure to extend the deadline for parliamentary investigations until the 17th.
However, Rep. Kim Ki-hyun, leader of the people’s power party, voted against it, saying, “It’s just a political dispute”, and Rep.
This is MBC News Jo Hee-win.
Video commentary: Seo Doo-beom / Video editing: Woo Seong-ho
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