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As President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol announced that he would get rid of the Blue House Senior Civil Affairs Office, there are several observations as to where the existing Senior Civil Affairs Office will be held.

In the case of personnel verification, the current system is to find candidates at the Blue House's Senior Personnel Office and select a few by the Personnel Recommendation Committee, and the public service discipline secretary under the Senior Civil Affairs Office verifies them.

It is a structure in which recommendation and verification are carried out together in the Blue House, but in the future, the president-elect thinks that the Blue House will leave only the recommendation function and leave the verification to the Ministry of Justice and the police.



Reporter Lee Hyun-young will explain the details in detail.



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What the Presidential Transition Committee is looking at as an alternative to the personnel verification method is the US White House system.



[Eun-hye Kim / Seok-yeol Yoon, Spokesperson-elect: Even if you look only at the United States, the White House does not have such a verification function.

It is mainly performed by the agencies of power under the FBI, etc.]



The Federal Bureau of Investigation, the FBI, gives a 133-page questionnaire to high-ranking public officials, receives answers, conducts a face-to-face investigation, and reports to the president.



This questionnaire contains specific questions covering 29 items, including military service and property, tax payment, and criminal history.



The standard verification period is also 45 to 60 days, and it can take as long as 9 months.



Currently, the Blue House is also receiving answers to preliminary questionnaires including the 'seven major corruptions' such as military service, tax evasion, transfer undercover, and sex crimes, but unlike the FBI questionnaire, candidates are not held legally responsible for false answers.



So, the transition committee is devising a plan to allow the Justice Department and the police to perform the same roles as the FBI and independently carry out personnel verification.



However, there are concerns about how to transfer the personnel verification function to the Ministry of Justice and the police, respectively, and how to compensate for the lack of efficiency and confidentiality in this case.



Inside and outside the transition committee, even if the verification is strengthened, there are voices saying that it is better to establish a separate personnel verification secretary at the Blue House and send verification agents from related institutions as it is now.



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-gi, video editing: Yumira)