People Power Party “Expanding target organizations… Verifying candidates based on strict standards”

People Power Party “Expanding target organizations… Verifying candidates based on strict standards”

(Busan = Yonhap News) Reporter Min Young-gyu = The city council's personnel hearing for the heads of city-affiliated organizations, which will be held for the first time since Busan Mayor Jeon Jae-soo of the Democratic Party of Korea took office, will begin in earnest on the 29th.

The Busan City Council, where the People Power Party has an overwhelming majority, has expanded the personnel hearing target from representatives of the existing 10 Busan City investment and contribution organizations to representatives of all 22 investment and contribution organizations, and is in the position of verifying the qualifications of candidates using strict standards.

According to the Busan City Council on the 27th, the City Council's Planning and Finance Committee will hold a personnel hearing for candidate Shim Jae-un, director of Busan Techno Park, on the 29th and intensively verify expertise.

We plan to closely examine whether candidate Shim, who served as the head of the Busan Chamber of Commerce and Industry's economic policy division, has the ability to lead a large organization in charge of attracting national research and development (R&D) projects and supporting local industry revitalization.

On the 30th, the City Council's Special Personnel Hearing Committee will hold a personnel hearing for candidates Kim Hyeon-jun, chairman of the Busan Credit Guarantee Foundation, and Hwang Seon-woong, director of the Busan Economic Promotion Agency. It appears that sharp questions will be asked in the process of verifying the qualifications and ethics of the candidates.

The personnel hearings for Kim Tae-ho, candidate for Busan Transportation Corporation President, and Kim Myeong-soo, candidate for Busan Facilities Corporation Chairman, scheduled for October 6, have also emerged as a topic of interest in local politics.

As former Busan Mayor Park Hyeong-joon, who was appointed as the president of the Busan Transportation Corporation during his term, resigned to support the president of KORAIL with only half of his term in office, sparking a 'scam controversy', the management will of candidate Kim Tae-ho, who served as the president of the Seoul Transportation Corporation, is expected to be closely examined.

In particular, the level of verification by the city council is expected to be further increased as the Busan Facilities Corporation union has publicly requested the withdrawal of the nomination of candidate Kim Myeong-soo, who is from the election camp of current Busan Mayor Jeon Jae-soo, calling it a 'political repayment'.

Park Jong-cheol, floor leader of the People Power Party of the City Council, said, "As the first personnel hearing for the head of an agency affiliated with Busan City begins in the ruling party's ruling party, I know that candidates will be verified with stricter standards than ever before. Some unqualified appointments are also noticeable."