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reason why East Airlines, which has been controversial due to overdue wages for several months, has come to the bankruptcy crisis is the reason why ‘footbal management’ led to opaque corporate governance and kinship. The founder and real owner of Easta Air's Democratic Party, Lee Sang-jik, is still silent.

This is reporter Park Chan-geun.

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Easta Airways employees have been groaning in high school due to unpaid wages for 5 months.

[Park Lee-sam/Ista Air Pilot Union Chairman: (Lee Sang-jik's side) is a wage delinquency incident in the process of trying to get the sale price.]Easta Airlines was founded in 2007 by Lee Sang-ik, a member of the company who earned money through stock and venture investment.

When he was elected as the 19th member of the National Assembly in 2012, he transferred his stake and chairmanship to his older brother, Kyung-il Lee.

However, Mr. Kyung-il Lee was arrested on charges of stealing money, and since then, Estar Air has been nominally changed owners several times.

Then, in 2015, a company with a capital of 30 million won, established by Lee Sang-jik's son and daughter, becomes the owner of Estar Air through the borrowing method.[Ista Air officials: About 10 billion won. I borrowed 8 billion won at a time (Ista Air Co., Ltd.) and bought 8 billion won worth of money. Later, it was also borrowed with 2.5 billion won as collateral and (Ista Air) as collateral.] The

daughter, who inherited the company, was also controversial at the time, taking over as an outside director of ISTA Air that year.

The problem is that most of the nominally large shareholders and borrowed places are assumed to have a special relationship with this member, but due to their privately held company, they have never been made transparent.

[Kwon Oh-in/Director, Economic Policy Bureau of Kyungshil: How did you get such a loan through a fund to a company that doesn't have such track record? .] When

Lee dropped out of the 20th general election, he returned to the position of Eastar Airlines for over a year from 2016.

[Park Lee-Sam/Ista Air Pilot Union Chairperson: I heard that (Lee Lee) had great screams and even cursed. I think I felt a lot of insults, if you listen to the staff.] An

official at Easta Air said, "If the acquisition to Jeju Air is canceled, you may consider court management or bankruptcy procedures."

The result of opaque family management is increasing the likelihood that 1,500 employees will lose their jobs.

(Video coverage: Hojun Choi, Video editing: Seunghee Lee, CG: Seunghyun Seo)