2024-04-30 14:47:55
The Board of Audit and Inspection announced on the 30th that the National Election Commission employees had systematically engaged in ‘preferential hiring‘, including manipulating the evaluation scores written by interview committee members in order to pass the children of current and former employees. It is said that even successful applicants were unfairly eliminated during this process. The Board of Audit and Inspection confirmed that fraudulent hiring was widespread within the National Election Commission, with not only high-ranking officials but also bureau and department head level employees unhesitatingly requesting the employment of their children, and requested the prosecution to investigate 27 current and former employees of the National Election Commission involved in suspicions of preferential hiring. . The Board of Audit and Inspection announced that it discovered about 1,200 violations of laws and regulations as a result of a thorough investigation of 291 career recruitment conducted by the National Election Commission over a period of 10 years from 2013.
● “From recruitment to transfer and official residence, ‘Apachechance’”
According to the Board of Audit and Inspection, Mr. Kim, the son of former National Election Commission Secretary-General Kim Se-hwan, received unfair preferential treatment not only during the hiring process, but also throughout the post-recruitment transfer, official residence, and internal training selection process.
The Incheon Election Commission hired Mr. Kim as a level 8 experienced position in 2020. Prior to that, in 2019, the National Election Commission said in a recruitment demand survey that the Incheon National Election Commission said, “The number of employees below grade 6 exceeds the quota.”
However, in the same year, the National Election Commission actually increased the number of people selected for the Ganghwa-gun Election Commission under the Incheon Election Commission to which Mr. Kim applied, and Mr. Kim was hired the following year. The Board of Audit and Inspection is not ruling out the possibility that a position that did not exist was created to select Mr. Kim.
The Ganghwa County Election Commission, which Mr. Kim supported, is classified as a remote area according to internal regulations. The National Election Commission usually imposes a condition that “they cannot move to another region for 5 years” when hiring employees in remote areas, but this condition was not attached to the hiring process at the time.
It is said that at the time of selecting Mr. Kim, a standard was created in the document screening to “select a person who meets the criteria: Grade 8, under 35 years old, and able to commute to Incheon.” The Board of Audit and Inspection pointed out that three internal members of the National Election Commission who were former President Kim’s colleagues participated in the interview, and two gave Kim full marks.
Mr. Kim, who was hired in this way, moved to the Incheon Election Commission less than a year later. At that time, the Incheon National Election Commission relaxed the existing requirement that “a county election commission employee must have served for more than three years to move to a provincial or provincial election commission.” Although Mr. Kim was not eligible for an official residence according to the National Election Commission’s internal regulations, the Incheon National Election Commission also provided monthly rent support. In this audit, it was also confirmed that after Mr. Kim came to the National Election Commission, internal messenger records in which National Election Commission employees referred to him as ‘the crown prince’.
● Board of Audit and Inspection “Even the evaluation table was manipulated to get employees’ children to pass”
According to the Board of Audit and Inspection, in the case of the Seoul National Election Commission, prior to the 2021 interview for the son of then-standing member Shin Woo-yong, internal committee members were asked to “fill out the evaluation sheet in pencil.” The Board of Audit and Inspection pointed out that after the interview was over, the personnel manager erased the evaluator’s scores with an eraser, giving some applicants low scores and causing them to be eliminated.
In the 2022 interview conducted by the daughter of then-Secretary-General Park Chan-jin, the Jeonnam National Election Commission asked members to “only determine the ranking and leave the score column blank on the evaluation table.” The Board of Audit and Inspection believes that the personnel manager later gave higher scores to some applicants, including former President Park’s daughter.
There were cases where the children of National Election Commission employees failed to submit the transfer consent form, a required document for employment, but the National Election Commission turned a blind eye to this and allowed them to pass the exam. Although the child of the director of the National Election Commission of Sangdang-gu, Cheongju City did not receive a transfer consent form from Okcheon-gun, where he was working, the North Chungcheong National Election Commission sent a person in charge of the Okcheon National Election Commission to the county governor to obtain the consent form.
Regarding the results of this audit, the National Election Commission said on the same day, “We plan to take strict action on matters that require action based on the results of the investigation,” and added, “To strengthen hiring fairness, we have revised the personnel management standards, including making the test committee members 100% external.” .
Reporter Ko Do-ye [email protected]
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2024-04-30 14:47:55