
AI-generated summary
The opposition party's criticism of the audit committee members appointed during the Yoon Seok-yeol government continues, and suspicions are being raised about their connection to a specific faction, the 'Tiger faction'.
Audit committee member: “I have nothing to do with the Tiger faction… I’m not doing anything shameful.”
Park Ji-won "Yoo Byung-ho's slut"... Youngshin Kim "insulting words"
(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Lee Sang-hyun = On the 12th, ruling party lawmakers called for the resignation of an audit committee member appointed during the Yoon Seok-yeol administration during an audit of the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee against the Board of Audit and Inspection.
Rep. Park Jie-won of the Democratic Party of Korea called Audit Committee member Kim Young-shin to the podium during the National Assembly audit that day and asked, "As the vice leader of the Tiger faction (a faction centered on Audit Committee member Byung-ho Yoo), don't you feel ashamed of serving as a member of the Audit Committee until now?"
He then criticized, saying, “Byung-ho Yoo and Commissioner Kim are the people who turned the Board of Audit and Inspection into a dead-end agency,” adding, “Do you have any intention of resigning voluntarily? Resign.”
Rep. Kim Dong-ah of the same party also asked Commissioner Kim, “Isn’t he the head of the remaining Tiger faction?” and “Don’t you plan on resigning when it becomes such a problem?”
Commissioner Kim repeatedly refuted this, saying, "The Tiger faction has nothing to do with me. I have never done anything shameful. I did it according to my conscience."
When Rep. Park Jie-won asked, “Wasn’t Yoo Byung-ho ‘kkobung’ (Japanese for subordinate)?” Commissioner Kim responded, “It seems like a bit of an insult to me.”
AI outlook — possibilities, not facts
Additional factional suspicions will continue to be raised in the Board of Audit and Inspection's audit of government affairs.
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