I offered to cut food prices by 10%, but I didn’t accept it… Won Hee-ryong “suspicious of opposition to reform”
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport began an audit of the Korea Expressway Corporation.
This is because the company is deemed to lack the will to innovate, such as not responding to recent proposals such as reducing food prices in highway rest areas and leaking internal information to the outside for the benefit of the corporation.
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and the Road Corporation on the 21st, the Office of Inspector General of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport is conducting inspections at the Road Corporation headquarters in Gimcheon-si, Gyeongsangbuk-do on the same day.
An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “There has been an inappropriate case in the Roads Corporation where the will to innovate is deemed to be insufficient, and we are investigating the circumstances.”
According to the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, Won Hee-ryong, ordered a plan to improve service at highway rest areas before Chuseok.
On the 17th of last month, under the direction of Minister Won, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport organized a task force consisting of the Roads Corporation and members of an external private committee under the supervision of the Road Bureau to discuss ways to cut food prices in areas rest, providing mileage, and expanding the number of women’s restrooms.
At this meeting, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport proposed a 10% cut in food prices in 207 highway rest areas across the country, but the Roads Corporation did not accept it for reasons such as management problems.
At the time, it was said that the Roads Corporation was concerned that if food prices fell, the operating profit would decline and it would be difficult to get good scores in the management evaluation of public institutions by the Ministry of Strategy and Finance.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport also sees the Roads Corporation breaching internal service regulations, such as leaking the content of TF negotiations that have not yet been decided to the National Assembly and the media and promoting the Corporation’s position.
It is known that the target of this inspection also includes an executive at the Korea Highway Corporation and President Kim Jin-sook.
President Kim, who came from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, was appointed president of Pottery in April 2020 during the Moon Jae-in administration.
An official from the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport said, “The Roads Corporation was one of the agencies that worked well together among the agencies associated with the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport.
Minister Won also posted his position on the situation on his Facebook on the same day.
Minister Won said, “The idea of ’reducing food prices in highway rest areas’ was an idea to alleviate the suffering of the people due to price surge, but when discussing this, unconfirmed content was reported in the media.” As a result of the investigation, I have a strong suspicion that the Roads Corporation is trying to resist reform by leaking this information to the media,” he said.
Minister Won said, “In the end, the Roads Corporation decided to openly resist the government’s reforms in order to confirm their privileged interests, and it was decided that it was an old-fashioned form that must be demolished, and he ordered an intensive examination. “
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