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It has been 4 years since the Blue House petition called the 'modern version of Sinmungo' started. So far, over 1 million petitions have been filed, and over 200 million people have clicked the agree button.



Correspondent Kwon Ran.



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Blue House petition started in August 2017.



The highest number of consents was recorded for the disclosure of the identity of the suspect in Room N with over 2,715,000 applications.  



[Kang



Ha-ri

/ Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul: I participated in the Nth room (petition), but now it is

someone else

's business, but it can be my job.]

After that, it actually led to the legislation of the Nth Room Prevention Act. The children's abuse-related policies stemming from the case of Jeong In, who died of domestic abuse, became the basis for a national petition.  



[Kim Seok-ho/Professor of Sociology, Seoul National University: Opinions played the role of a channel to communicate with the politicians, and did they also play the role of a deliberation democracy where learning and discussion take place?] There



are a total of 1045,000 articles posted on the bulletin board of the national petition.



About 470 million people visited, and about half clicked the consent button. 



[Park Jin-won / Yeongdeungpo-gu, Seoul: Because it has become a public debate, many people see it and make it an issue, so the (government) will not look into it… .]



There were 257 cases that met the 200,000 consent requirement and elicited government responses.  



[President Moon Jae-in (Cheongwadae chief and aides meeting, September 11, 2017): I think it is necessary for the Blue House and other ministries to respond in a sincere way to a petition of great social interest anyway.]



But support for the president, petition for impeachment There is also concern that the two sides will be a venue for expressing political conflicts, such as occupying the top ranks in the number of consents.



Go Joo-hee, head of the Blue House Digital Communication Center, said that there are many petitions in the political field, but the consent rate is low.



(Video coverage: Lee Yong, Video editing: Choi Jin-hwa, CG: Uhm So-min·Han Jung-woo)