While the confirmation hearing for the candidate Park Min-shik, who was nominated as the first Minister of Patriots and Veterans Affairs, will be held on the 22nd, issues such as the simultaneous position of a lawyer during his time as a member of the National Assembly . , the issue of ideological bias, and the debate over the publication of a commemorative photo from May 18th are expected to become issues.
Candidate Park will serve as First Minister for Veterans Affairs and Veterans Affairs if he passes the confirmation hearing in the National Assembly. Candidate Park, who graduated from Seoul National University’s Department of Diplomacy, passed the Foreign Service Examination and the Bar Examination one after the other. He joined politics in 2008 after going through the post of special prosecutor and served as a member of the 18th and 19th National Assembly.
The opposition is expected to focus on questioning Park’s ideological bias in the confirmation hearing. Park yr Hmydaydd argues that it is starting an ideological conflict by re-evaluating former President Syngman Rhee. In addition, the opposition is calling for his voluntary resignation as he served at the same time as a lawyer while serving as a member of the Judiciary Committee of the National Assembly and being suspected of being responsible for a violent case by a gangster. However, on the 20th, the preparation team for the confirmation hearing of Park Minister Candidate dismissed these claims as “false”. In the preparation group, three lawyers who belonged to the law firm together with Candidate Park and whose names were listed in 18 cases presented confirmation of the fact that the associated suspicions were not true.
In addition to this, criticism was also raised that the picture was used to see the citizens of Gwangju from afar, who were recently participating in the democratization movement, from the point of view of the martial law army. The Ministry of Patriots and Veterans Affairs eventually removed the photo from the website, but it was found that the photo had also been used during the past administration of Moon Jae-in, causing controversy in the political world.
Reporter Seong Hyun-hee sunghh@etnews.com
