Minister Kim Hyun-sook “I don’t think the middle course is important”
There are no records of the internal strategy promotion team… “Inconclusive evidence”
Although the draft plan for the abolition of the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family has come to fruition, it was confirmed that the Ministry of Leisure had not left the minutes of its own meetings relating to this, as well as records of communication with the Ministry of Administration Public. and Security, the ministry responsible for reorganizing the government.
Critics say that the president’s big promise and the important process of eliminating one central administrative agency has been done in an opaque manner without communicating with the National Assembly and the public.
According to the office of Representative Yang Yi Won-young of the Democratic Party of Korea who belongs to the Gender Equality and Family Committee of the National Assembly on the 8th, when the office recently asked the Ministry of Leisure for the results of consultation and communication with the Ministry of Public and Security in the process of preparing the government’s reorganization plan, the Ministry of Leisure and Recreation said, “We consulted often through landline calls and interviews, and official interviews were held. There is no record because this is not true.”
The Ministry of Leisure also said “there was no separate consultation with the Government Affairs Co-ordinating Office”.
Minister Kim Hyun-sook said, “I communicated well with the Minister of Public Administration and Security and others in charge,” when reporters asked whether the government’s reorganization plan adequately reflected the situation of the Ministry of Leisure at a meeting announcing measures to support youth inside and outside schools on the 6th.
However, if the records are not left as explained by the recreation department, there is no way of knowing the content of the communication.
Minister Kim said on the same day, “I don’t think the intermediate process is that important, what the recreation ministry said and what other ministries said.
The Minister said that the opinion gathered through the expert meeting of the Strategic Promotion Team organized by the Ministry of Leisure to prepare a road map for abolition was also presented to the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, but he did not leave a stenographic record of this. meeting
The results of the meeting of the strategy promotion team presented to the leisure members of the Democratic Party were concise enough to summarize the main content of each meeting in one sentence, and only their surnames and names were hidden and the names of the participants were revealed.
Regarding this, the Ministry of Leisure said, “This is to ensure the free speech of the attendees, and since it is a meeting to listen to the opinions of experts and policy parties, it is not subject to the obligation to write minutes.”
Women’s circles and opposition parties point out that this is an action inconsistent with the position of Minister Kim, who stressed immediately after taking office, “I will accept the opinion of all walks of life.”
Kwon Soo-hyeon, representative of Yeo Se-yeon (Democratic Unity of Women’s Political Power), criticized, “If you said you would listen to the public’s opinion, you have to explain what kind of opinion it was the current plan based on it, but if you only give the result, it will be less persuasive.”
Representative Yang Yi Won-young said, “The fact that there was no proper consultation process with the Ministry of Public Administration and Security, which oversees personnel and organization, clearly shows how much the abolition of the Ministry of Leisure and Recreation has ‘to delete. It means no,'” he said.
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