In the document deleted by the National Statistical Office… Cheong Wa Dae "Please ask for good content"

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The Board of Audit and Inspection, which is looking into the suspicion of manipulation of statistics by the last government, has restored documents that were deleted from the computers of Statistics Korea employees.

It is said that this document contained a request from the Blue House to 'include good content' in relation to writing statistics at the time.

Reporter Hong Young-jae covered the story.

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Board of Audit and Inspection recently restored work PCs, e-mails, and messenger records of Statistics Korea employees through digital forensics.

Some of the documents that went through official approval and those that did not have been restored, and among the documents, it was confirmed as a result of the SBS coverage that there were documents reporting the contents of a meeting held by officials at the National Statistical Office in 2018 with officials at the Blue House.

An official from the National Statistical Office, who was recently audited by the Board of Audit and Inspection, said that the restored document contained the purpose of the Blue House's request, "Do not write only bad statistics, but also include good ones" in relation to the household trend survey.

In another document, when the National Statistical Office included 'Trend in the proportion of single-person households' in the press reference materials to be distributed, the Blue House said, "Can you omit this?"

Since then, the trend of actual single-person households has been deleted from the press reference.

At the time, the National Statistical Office is known to have accepted, disapproved, and reviewed opinions depending on the case at the request of the Blue House.

The Board of Audit and Inspection questioned whether the Blue House's request felt pressured, but the official said, "We made decisions based on our own judgment, and there were many times when the Blue House's request was rejected. There were no legal problems during the meeting with the Blue House."

The Board of Audit and Inspection, which completed an on-site audit of the National Statistical Office yesterday (16th), plans to make a final decision on whether to further extend the on-site audit by analyzing the data.