Former Mayor Yun-Joo Kim, who served as Gunpo Mayor for 16 years, sued for "retirement benefits" but was not accepted.

According to the legal community today (1st), Seoul Administrative Court Division 2 (Deputy Judge Lee Jung-min) has ruled that the mayor of the former court of lawsuit was filed against Mayor Kim.

Mayor Kim, who was elected four times in the local elections and served for 16 years, challenged the fifth in 2018 as a candidate for the Baron Future Party and failed. After that, after claiming the lump-sum retirement pension and retirement allowance to the Corporation, the former mayor Kim said, "The government's pension law excludes the 'public officials who are inaugurated by election' from the object of the government's pension system, which is contrary to the principle of equality in the Constitution." Allegedly filed a lawsuit to cancel the claim for retirement allowance.
However, the court did not accept, saying, "The head of a local government is different from a career official who is expected to work for a long time under the Civil Service Act because it is a civil servant elected by the election of a resident and political party based on a political party."

In addition, "the government employee pension system has the aspect of encouraging long-term tenure and seeking administrative efficiency and stability, and ensuring the faithfulness of duties during the tenure of employment by freeing public employees from the difficulties of living after retirement or the threat of livelihood caused by public-related disasters." "Therefore, the government employee pension system was basically designed for career civil servants who presuppose long-term service," he explained.

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(Photo = Former Mayor Yoonjoo Kim's Facebook)