According to the results of the Educational Facilities Safety Institute audit, “Chairman’s internal corruption” and “No problem” (comprehensive)

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Kwon Hee-won and Lee Yulip = On the 23rd, the ruling and opposition parties clashed over the results of the Board of Audit and Inspection's audit regarding workplace harassment of the chairman of the Korea Educational Facilities and Safety Institute during the comprehensive audit of the National Assembly Education Committee.

Rep. Lee In-seon of the People Power Party, the opposition party's secretary-general, mentioned the Ministry of Education's attempt to dismiss Park Ji-hyang, chairman of the Northeast Asian History Foundation, and Heo Seong-woo, chairman of the Korea Educational Facilities Safety Management Institute, and said, "There is a difference between the Ministry of Education's investigation and the results of the Board of Audit and Inspection (for the Korea Educational Facilities Safety Management Institute)," and added, "Isn't the Ministry of Education in too much of a hurry?"

Kim Hee-jeong, Chairman of the Education Committee of the People Power Party, also said, “According to the audit results of the Board of Audit and Inspection, many of the issues were concluded to be no problems, and workplace bullying, which was a key issue, was especially judged to be ‘no problem.’”

Then, Rep. Go Min-jeong, a member of the ruling party, countered, saying, "If you look at the audit report distributed by the Board of Audit and Inspection, it is said to be harassment," and added, "It is said that 'repeatedly requesting an employee on vacation to submit a report is tantamount to harassment in the workplace that goes beyond the scope of what is appropriate for work.'"

The ruling and opposition parties decided to discuss it again after reviewing the audit report from the Board of Audit and Inspection, but they came up with conflicting interpretations in the subsequent national audit, setting up their angles.

Chairman of the Board of Education Kim said, “The Board of Audit and Inspection audit results show that there was workplace harassment in this institution, but the action taken by the Board of Audit and Inspection is to have the chairman correct the situation.”

Rep. Go said, "What the chairman said was, 'It is difficult to conclude that the chairman personally ordered or cited the employee.' In other words, did he personally do this to the employee individually? No, it was that he repeatedly harassed the employee dozens of times through executives."

He countered by saying, "But it's too much of a logical leap to say that this isn't harassment. The minister probably has all of my reports, and all the lawmakers probably have them as well. Even though it's the same Korean language, I wonder why there should be such different interpretations."

Chairman Kim said, "There was bullying in the workplace, but it was not the chairman who did it (conclusion)," and added, "However, it was the Ministry of Education that tried to remove the chairman from his position because he did it. At least look carefully from beginning to end and come here."

Amid this battle, Minister of Education Choi Kyo-jin said, "In order to ensure that we do not violate the law, we will seek legal advice from the Ministry of Education and handle it appropriately in the future."

Meanwhile, a battle was held over the controversy over Gyeonggi Provincial Office of Education Superintendent Ahn Min-seok's false information in his election public information and independent lawmaker Han Dong-hoon's 'suspicion of false qualifications for his daughter'.

People Power Party lawmaker Park Jeong-hoon said, "I express my strong regret for Superintendent Ahn's failure to attend due to the Democratic Party's refusal," and criticized the controversy over the fact that Superintendent Ahn's fine for assaulting a police officer was falsely stated in election materials.

He emphasized, "The committee must report this matter for perjury," and added, "President Lee will also lose his presidential qualifications if he goes to the remand trial and the trial is concluded. The same goes for Superintendent Ahn Min-seok."

On the other hand, the ruling party sharpened its eyebrows by comparing the allegations of false qualifications for a lawmaker's daughter with the corruption case in the entrance exam for the child of the head of the Cho Kuk Innovation Policy Research Institute of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party.

Rep. Kang Kyung-sook of the Cho Kuk Innovation Party said, "Congressman Han's daughter has never been subject to a search and seizure and is currently a college student at MIT. At the time (Cho Kook's investigation), the prosecution conducted a dust-up investigation, so what's going on now?" and urged Education Minister Choi Kyo-jin, "Please cooperate with the Incheon Office of Education in the investigation into Chadwick School in Songdo, Incheon, where Rep. Han's daughter attended."

He also sarcastically said, "A paper written by a lawmaker's daughter in an overseas academic journal absurdly refers to 'psychological warfare' as 'mental fighting.' In an attempt to plagiarize another author's data, only the words were changed mechanically," adding, "It reminds me of Kim Kun-hee's paper."