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The 3rd day personnel hearing on the first cabinet of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration is currently being held at the National Assembly.
Hearings are being held today (the 4th) on three candidates: Minister of National Defense Lee Jong-seop, Maritime and Fisheries Minister Cho Seung-hwan, and Employment and Labor Minister Lee Jeong-sik.
Reporter Kang Min-woo and Defense Minister Lee Jong-seop nomination hearings will start with the hearing. What was the content of the hearings in the morning?
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Yes, at the hearing of the defense minister nominee Lee Jong-seop, the first question was about the defense promises made by the president-elect Yoon Seok-yeol.
The promises were 'soldier salary of 2 million won' and additional deployment of THAAD, etc., but this candidate asked for understanding as the financial situation was not easy to point out that the soldier's salary pledge had retreated. He said he would review it.
Questions related to various allegations surrounding the candidate were also raised.
Seok-Yeol Yoon, a member of the National Defense Science Research Institute, was criticized for violating the rules by working at the camp and at the same time as a fund professor in the Department of Social Welfare at Kyungdong University.
At the hearing that will follow in the afternoon, questions about the security situation such as North Korea's recent missile launch, questions about current issues such as the relocation of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, and the so-called 'Kwan Tech' controversy over the former deputy chief of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, who lived in a residence and owned multiple houses, are expected to continue. I see it.
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Cho Seung-hwan, the nominee for the Minister of Oceans and Fisheries, was accused of using an official car and business promotion expenses for personal use, right?
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Yes, related allegations have been continuously raised.
The hearing of Minister of Oceans and Fisheries Cho Seung-hwan, however, was interrupted in the middle after critics continued to point out that data submission was insufficient before even starting the essence of the matter.
Members of the Democratic Party said they did not submit data related to military service or data while serving as the director of the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries Science and Technology Promotion, and requested the submission of data again.
Members of the Democratic Party raised suspicions of private use of official vehicles and business promotion expenses, and delayed payment of gift tax during Cho's tenure as president of the Institute for Oceans and Fisheries Science and Technology Promotion.
In this regard, as debates continued between the ruling and opposition lawmakers, the personnel hearing was temporarily suspended after about 50 minutes.
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Yes, Ki-ja Kang, please continue to share with us about the hearings of Lee Jeong-sik as Minister of Employment and Labor candidate Lee Jung-sik.
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Yes, the hearing for Minister of Employment and Labor Lee Jeong-sik started at 11 o'clock, and so far, there have not been many questions.
During his tenure as secretary general of the Labor-Management Development Foundation under the Ministry of Employment and Labor, Lee was criticized for being audited for misuse of business expenses and delayed handling of sexual harassment cases.
In the inquiries that will continue in the afternoon, it seems that there will be verification of these suspicions and confirmation of the direction of the Yun Seok-yeol government's labor policy.
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Has the hearing for Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon scheduled for today been rescheduled?
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Yes, it has changed.
Attorney General Han Dong-hoon Candidate Hearing The personnel hearing was originally tentatively agreed to be held today.
However, it has been postponed to the next Tuesday, the 9th, due to problems with the adoption of witnesses and insufficient data submission.
At the Legislative and Judiciary Committee held today, the change of the personnel hearing execution plan was decided, and it was agreed to call four people as witnesses for the hearing: Han Dong-soo, Chief Inspector General of the Supreme Prosecutor's Office, Im Eun-jung, Inspector General of the Justice Department, and Park Young-jin, Uijeongbu District Prosecutor's Prosecutor General's Prosecutor Kim Gyeong-yul.
At today's Judiciary Committee meeting, there was a bit of an argument before the decision to postpone the schedule. Regarding accountant Kim Kyung-yul, a witness demanded by the people, the Democratic Party members said that accountant Kim used profane language targeting Democratic Party lawmaker Choi Kang-wook on social media in the past. Is it correct to call him a witness? that was pointed out.
The meeting was temporarily suspended as the People's Power members protested.