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Hearings were held at the National Assembly between Kim Hyun-sook, nominee for the Minister of Gender Equality and Family, and Lee Young, a nominee for the Minister of SMEs and Startups.

The Democratic Party criticized the candidates for insufficient data submission, and the opposition parties clashed from the morning.



Correspondent Lee Hyun-young.



<Reporter> Kim Hyun-



sook, candidacy for the Minister of Gender Equality and Family, emphasized that the time for a major transformation by the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family was needed in a remark at the hearing held in the morning of today (11th).



[Kim Hyun-sook / Candidate for Minister of Leisure: It is also true that we were disappointed with the lukewarm response to power-type sex crimes.]



He also said that the Ministry of Leisure should be transformed into a ministry that can play a practical role in resolving gender conflicts, etc.



However, as the opposition and opposition parties continued to quarrel over whether or not to submit data by candidate Kim, the hearings continued to turn around.



Democratic lawmakers have asked for a suspension until Kim submits documents related to his children's employment and his spouse's acquisition of unlisted stocks worth 900 million won for reasons of personal privacy.



Candidate Lee Young for the Minister of SMEs and Startups attended the hearing and said that he would work hard for the complete recovery of small business owners and self-employed people.



[Lee Young/Minister of Small and Medium Business Candidate Candidate: We will support full loss compensation for small business owners and self-employed people, and we will prepare and implement additional support measures as soon as possible.]



Democratic lawmakers did not properly submit data about Lee's career and major activities with a suspected conflict of interest. criticized for not doing so.



In the meantime, we focused on the circumstances of not disposing of unlisted stocks worth 2 billion won.



Candidate Lee explained that in the process of becoming a proportional representative member of the National Assembly, the time to organize the company was running short and that he would implement legal measures.