“Competitors were unfairly excluded from the after-school activity service agency selection process”... Rep. Joo “reports to the judges”
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Yullip = People Power Party lawmaker Joo Jin-woo claimed on the 13th that there is a suspicion that Suwon City gave preferential treatment by manipulating evaluation scores in the process of selecting a welfare institution headed by the spouse of Justice Minister candidate Kim Seung-won as an after-school activity service provider in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, in 2022.
Rep. Joo held a press conference at the National Assembly on this day and said, "'Kim Seung-won's family corporation' was unfairly selected with clear preferential treatment," and "unfair zero points were given to intentionally eliminate competitors."
According to Rep. Joo, in 2022, Suwon City selected two of the three organizations that applied as after-school activity service providers, and the 'Korea Child Development Social Cooperative' (hereinafter referred to as Korea Child Development), an organization providing care services for the developmentally disabled, headed by Candidate Kim's spouse, ranked first with 82.5 points.
However, as a result of comparing the application and the scorecard for each judge, Rep. Joo claims that if it had been a normal review, Korea Child Development's quantitative score would have fallen by 11.25 points from 66.25 to 55, while Competitor A's score would have gone up from 55 to 65 points and Competitor B's would have gone up from 40 to 60 points.
Rep. Joo said, “Kim Seung-won’s Family Association is a new organization that has only been in Suwon for three months. However, 5 additional points were given to the re-designated agency,” he said. “As for the ‘secure score for securing replacement personnel,’ the competitor company was given 0 points even though it had secured two replacement workers in advance, while Kim Seung-won’s family union was given a perfect score of 5 even though it only wrote ‘fill in case of vacancy.’”
In addition, Korea Child Development announced that it received a perfect score of 10 for convenience facilities even though the elevator, main entrance, and information facilities were completed only on February 24, 8 days later than the application deadline of February 16, 2022.
Rep. Joo said, “In the end, the (competing) company that received 0 points was eliminated,” and “(Korea Child Development) did not have much activity when it was in Yongin City, but when Candidate Kim was elected to the National Assembly, it moved to Suwon City, his district, in January 2022.”
He added, “If it were not for Rep. Kim, it would be impossible for a new, unqualified union to receive such preferential scores in quantitative and qualitative evaluations in just three months.”
Rep. Joo said, "We will file criminal charges against Suwon City judges and others for loss of national treasury and abuse of power, and hold them legally responsible for unfair selection," and added, "The investigation should be expanded to include the overall review, whether candidate Kim Seung-won's couple was solicited, and suspicions of collusion with Suwon City."
Meanwhile, Rep. Joo raised the issue of Candidate Kim's son's attendance record at Korea Child Development, saying, "Since (Candidate Kim's son) is in charge of only one child, (the child's) absence means no work," and added, "I have been raising my salary while only taking charge of one person here (Candidate Kim's son). Is it right to say that we will raise suspicions and report people who raise problems?"
Previously, Rep. Joo claimed the day before that Candidate Kim's son's work record was blank three out of ten days while he worked at a welfare institution for the disabled where his mother is the director, but Candidate Kim's side refuted that this was due to the absence of a user receiving services from his son and did not mean that his son did not come to work.
