In March 1991, the local elections, which had been suspended since the May 16 military crisis, were revived in 31 years. 4,304 basic lawmakers were elected from municipalities across the country. And another 30 years passed. 2,927 members of the 226 Basic Councils elected in the 2018 elections are in the process. The 8th local council has now ended in the first half and entered the second year in the second half. What was the past two years of the Fundamentals Council's return point?
The SBS Data Journalism Team [Mabujajak] decided to settle the first half of the local council based on some data. First of all, the basic council chairman's total of 190,000 of the past two years of work promotion expenses was analyzed. I tried to see if it was written properly according to the purpose. The purpose was to check whether the citizen's tax was used without any discretion.
the 8th Gangbuk-gu council that was launched in July 2018 by a fellow lawmaker . The first five chairpersons spent 168 million won for the past two years until the end of May. Chairman Baek-gyun Lee of 82.82 million won (730 cases), Vice Chairman Yoo In-ae of 3,982 million won (669 cases), Heo Kwang-haeng of Welfare and Construction Chairperson 24.2 million won (216 cases), Seo Seung-mok Chairman of Administrative Health Committee 22.22 million won (268 cases), Choi Chi-hyo 21.4 million won (266 cases) was used. The main contents of use were'meeting sessions with related organizations or organizations','work coordination or consultation', and most of the places of use were restaurants.
Why did you go to this restaurant a lot? It may have been one of the best restaurants in Gangbuk-gu or a space suitable for a meeting. Or, the restaurant president and the presidency may have been in a special relationship. Unfortunately, the president of the No. 1 restaurant was Assemblyman Heo Kwang-haeng and Chairman of the Welfare Construction Committee in the first half. Of the business promotion expenses set for the presidency alone, more than 13 million won was used the most in the restaurant where the presidency member is the president.
In the No. 1 restaurant, Lee Baek-gyun, the first chairman, used the most with 576 million won (23 cases). Next, Chairman Seung-mok Seo received 5.41 million won (27 cases) and Choi Chi-hyo chairman 2.62 million won (9 cases). Heogwang row chair and yuinae Vice-President had no history used (the first half of the officers differed per 10,004 belong, yuinae Vice-per-such people out of five.)
Why When we asked in the restaurant wrote a lot of work chujinbi yibaekgyun lawmakers "the place is spacious, I used it because it tasted good." When I asked again if it was really the reason, I said, "I think our senator was there as a representative and there wasn't such a tendency." "I didn't know if other chairpersons used it," Lee said.
Assemblyman Heo Kwang-haeng said, "The shops are on the side of the street, so the location is good, cheap, and delicious, so many people come to them." "If I did business, it could be a moral problem, but it wasn't," he said. "I have never spent business promotion fees in my store."
In some cases, it was used in the parliamentarian's family or relatives' restaurants. The first half of the Daejeon Jung-gu Council spent 1,157,000 won (9 cases) in the region's'Shinnara Pocha', and this restaurant is run by Mrs. Yeon-soo Kim, former vice chairman of the first half. President Kim became chairman in the second half of the year.) The chairman also spent 942 million won (66 cases) in'Byeolmijeong' in Daejeon, where the president of the restaurant is an acquaintance of the special budget chairman Kim Ok-hyang in the first half. . Assemblyman Kim said, "The president of the restaurant was close to having a mother's meeting together, and was introduced to the presidency just because he had a restaurant."
● What is the top'restaurant' nationwide based on the amount of business promotion expenses?
Where is the'Choi Ae' restaurant of the 226 basic council chairpersons nationwide? The answer is'restaurant'. It is unknown whether it was inadequate or intentional omission, but the maximum amount of use in the place where only the place of use was marked as'restaurant' was 90.45 million won (464 cases). It was presumed that they were all used by Gochang restaurants because they were all used by the chairman of the Gochang-gun Council in Jeollabuk-do.
These restaurants are generally well known restaurants in the area. What is the relationship with the presidency? As with the restaurants mentioned above, it was not possible to confirm whether a parliamentarian or relatives were involved in the restaurant. Assemblyman Lee Kyung-cheol explained, "It wasn't driven by driving, but it was my local restaurant, a regular house, and I'd like to use it a lot because I liked meat." If you calculate the business promotion cost of 17.8 million won used in the restaurant according to the explanation of this member, you visited two or three times a month and used an average of 280,000 won at a time.
● Request for public interest audit of work promotion costs… What is the auditor's judgment?
In response to the question of whether the company's promotion fee was driven from a particular restaurant, the lawmakers replied, "I did not exceed the legal limit," "It is not illegal," and "I went to the restaurant, because it was a regular restaurant." Follow their answers. There is no provision to prevent the concentration of work promotion costs on specific companies. There is no problem even if you use it in your own restaurant or in the restaurant of a fellow member. The auditors didn't bother.
In May 2018, the'Information Disclosure Center for a Transparent Society' pointed out problems such as private use or use in a family restaurant of a member of the hospital, acquiring and analyzing the usage history of 25 basic council chairpersons in Seoul. Subsequently, in August of that year, a public interest audit was filed with the Board of Audit and Audit Results were announced in March 2019. The Auditor said that the chairman of the Yongsan-gu council at that time purchased medicines for personal treatment at a business promotion fee, which is different from the purpose. However, the chairman of the council or family members spends business promotion expenses in the cafeteria or family, or on holiday or late night use,'overwrite' less than 500,000 won, and domestic payments during overseas training are not currently restricted. He said that there seems to be no problem. (The issue without this restriction will be dealt with in detail in Part 3.) The
Information Disclosure Center responded to this by saying, “In the situation where the related regulations are not clear, take a detailed examination of the details of each execution. "It's hard to be true," he said. "I'm worried that the auditor would be excused for the poor execution of the local council to be consistent without saying why it wasn't a problem. The center pointed out that "the system must be improved to prevent the execution of business promotion costs from concentrating on specific companies that have a stake in the lawmakers."
● 2,276 billion won for business promotion for 2 years… 92.9% of food expenses
Now let's summarize the whole situation. In the past two years, [Manufacturing] requested and released information to 226 basic councils nationwide. The past 2 years, the use of the business promotion fee was 193,291 cases, and the total amount of use was 2.72 billion 45 million won. One council spent an average of 126.13 million won.
The population of these cities and counties was 650,000 in Jeonju, 104,000 in Changwon, 1.11 million in Suwon, 940,000 in Seongnam, and 840,000 in Cheongju, 25,000 in Cheongsong, 90,000 in the East Sea, and 170,000 in captains. .(Based on the resident registration population of the Ministry of Public Administration and Security in June 2020) In general, the larger the population, the higher the use of business promotion costs, but it was jagged.
Looking at the chairperson/chairperson who spent the most money, Chairman Lee Jeong-hoon of Samcheok City, Gangwon was the first. It used 147.47 million won (230 cases). Next, Lee Gwan-soo, chairman of the Gangnam-gu council in Seoul, wrote 9,688,000 won (523 cases), and Chairman Lee Chan-ho, chairman of the first half of the Changwon City Council spent 9,552,000,000 won (523 cases).
It is estimated that 92.9% of the business promotion cost was used for food expenses (except for details related to food expenses such as membership fees, souvenirs, gifts, wreaths, etc. in the entire business promotion expenses). In the name of meetings, business consultations, and expanding ties Pay at the restaurant.
● Self-determined work promotion costs… "You have to record in detail what you used for."
Why is there a big difference between each city, district, and chairperson/chairperson? This is because there are no organizational standards. Each council autonomously and independently decides how much the presidency will spend on business promotion. The government is not considering the financial independence of each local government and the number of people per member of the parliament, as it is not necessary to closely examine whether it is necessary, if necessary, how appropriate in a year, and how it contributes to the legislative activities.
Lee Sang-suk, secretary-general of the Citizens' Group, "Catch the Tax Thief," specializing in the budget monitoring of the Ministry of Public Administration and Legislation, said, "I want to ask the fundamental question as to why I need it, because most of the cost is money for eating and drinking." Even one won would have to submit a receipt and record in detail what it was used for," he criticized.
Coverage : Young-gu Shim, Yeo-woon Bae, Hye-kyung Jeong, Jung-hun Bae Design : Joon-Seok An Intern : Ji-yeon Kim, Ki-eun Lee