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From this Lunar New Year, public officials can receive gifts of Korean beef, red ginseng, abalone, and up to 200,000 won.

It is the result of the National Assembly enacting the law and the government accepting it.

The maximum amount of gifts for agricultural and fishery products that public officials can receive was 50,000 won when the Solicitation and Graft Act was first enacted, but it rose to 100,000 won in the middle, and now it has retreated to 200,000 won.



If you give a gift of pork for just 100,000 won, you can eat samgyeopsal throughout the holidays.

However, the opposition and opposition lawmakers held a press conference to pass this law in the National Assembly as soon as possible (a rare scene) in partnership with With the World, and in the end, they succeeded.




Among the pie graphs on the left, green, 93% of the votes are in favor.

There were 5 people against it.

If you zoom in, it will look like this:




2. The reason why I raised it to 200,000 won was because of the big role of Korean beef.

The Korean Beef Association has been requesting to raise the price of holiday gifts to 200,000 won.

The Hanwoo Association greatly welcomes this measure, analyzing that this will increase the income of the Korean beef industry by 200 billion won for farmers, 400 billion won to the final market, and 600 billion won in total.

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On the other hand, there are sentences that make the consumer feel awkward. The auction price and the wholesale price will go up by 3%.

If the wholesale price rises by 3%, it is easy to predict that the retail price will go up even more.

Even now, honestly, when I go to a mart or market, it is a scary situation to buy Korean beef because of the price.



3.

No one will object to Korean beef farms making more money.

However, it is necessary to think about whether that is possible only by raising the price of civil servant futures. It has been pointed out for a long time that the middle distribution structure is so complicated that consumers feel burdened and buy Korean beef at high prices. What

would it be like to argue that

the middle distribution structure should be simplified with the power to simultaneously move the opposition and lawmakers ?

Isn't this a way for consumers to benefit as prices go down, and for farmers to earn more income by increasing consumption?



4.

This method is not polite even for most good public officials.

Most government officials do not want a gift worth 200,000 won. If you ask, most of them say that it is burdensome to receive only 30,000 won. What's more, they say that the fact that a gift worth 200,000 won came is too inconvenient because they think that there is more to me than that.



But in this situation, what does it mean to raise the gift limit for public officials to 200,000 won, and then increase consumption?

Where do those increased gifts go?

Does that fit the purpose of the Anti-Graft Act?

Although the decision has been made legally, I think that socially, there are more questions to be solved.



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