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Let me give you another report of the Ministerial Candidate Verification. This time, it is about candidates for fair trade chairman. Civil servants must have a double-sided permission to do other tasks together. However, candidate Cho Seong-wook, a professor at Seoul National University, has been audited by his brother-in-law company for more than 10 years without permission.

This is a report by Min Kyung-ho.

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A contaminant treatment venture in Anyang, Gyeonggi-do.

Mr. Cho's brother-in-law of the Fair Trade Commissioner's brother-in-law is a company run by Cho.

Cho has few experiences in outside directors such as Hanwha, the Korea Securities Depository, and the Massachusetts on his National Assembly's Human Resource Request.

In particular, since candidate Cho was hired as a professor at Seoul National University in September 2005, he was required to hold a job as a public official at the time, but the procedure was not followed.

[Cho Sung-wook / President of Fair Trade Commissioner Candidate: ((Gyeongbu Company Auditor) Do you have permission to hold a job at Seoul National University?) What is that? Yes. (Are you not allowed to hold a job?) The school will tell you about it.]

Mr. Cho explained that he had worked unpaidly and non-retired at a small company and didn't know he was eligible for a job.

Mr. Cho has 2,400 shares in the privately held company, valued at 12 million won at par, and he was invited to invest when the company was founded.

[Kim Sun-dong / Free Korean Party Representative: The person who will be the chairman of the Fair Trade thanked the family company. The process was illegal, and it seems to have hidden it. I think that's something to look out for during the hearing.]

It is pointed out that it is somewhat frustrating to explain that he did not know enough to wield a strict blade against corporations as a candidate for Fair Trade Commissioner, also called an economic prosecution.

(Video coverage: Jung Sung Hwa, Jin Ho Park, Byung Joo Lee, Video editing: Chae Chul Ho)