On the day of the Sewol ferry tragedy, the result of the investigation by the Special Committee on Social Participation (Special Committee) revealed that the first time the Blue House recognized the incident earlier than previously known.

The Special Committee held a press conference at the post tower in Jung-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 13th and said, "We decided to ask the prosecution to investigate the alleged charges, such as the fact that the current perception and propagation time of the Blue House was not consistent with the objective data." .

In the meantime, the Park Geun-hye government has claimed to have reported the accident for the first time on April 16, 2014 at 9:19 AM YTN Breaking News, and reported it to the Blue House at 9:24 am, and then carried out the President's report and initial action.

Prosecutors and courts also held trials against former President Kim Ki-chun, the secretary-general, on the premise that these allegations are true.

However, according to the data obtained by the Special Task Force, the Blue House Crisis Management Center already sent a text message to the total 153 people, including the National Security Office, and the chief of the government and government planning, at 9:19 am on the day of the disaster.

The Special Committee said, “Considering the time required to check the number of persons (474 ​​persons) in the statement and the message related to the person concerned, it seems that it would take about 10 minutes to send the message after the initial situation is recognized.” "It seems that you were fully aware of the outbreaks around 9:10 am."

According to the Special Committee, four prosecutors, including Kim Ki-chun, former secretary-general of the country and Kim Kyu-hyun, former chief of the National Security Office, were alleged to prepare data that falsely described the tragedy and information submitted to the National Assembly. Decided to request an investigation.

A charge of perjury was also applied to Kim Jong-un, who first appeared as a witness to the impeachment of former President Park at the Constitutional Court in 2017 and said the time of the disaster was 9:19 am.
"We seem to have feared that the criticism that we could not respond promptly in an urgent situation would be raised if we admitted that the victims of the investigation request, such as the former secretary general Kim, were aware of the accident before the announced time," said the senior committee member of the Special Committee on the Committee of the Special Committee. He claimed that the Sewol issue recognition process was false by using the fact that it was not disclosed for 30 years under the Records Management Act. 

Moon also said, "It is urgent to evade the enormous damage caused by the deaths of 304 people rather than taking responsibility, and it is also believed to have hampered the investigation of the disaster."