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The first half of the 226 basic councils nationwide has ended. In the past two years, our data journalism team, Mabujaja, analyzed where and how we spent the business promotion. The results will be delivered from today (29th), but first, let's look at the actual situation of driving the business promotion fee to a restaurant in the first order.

Reporter Jung Hye-kyung and reporter Bae Yeon-woon will deliver it one after another.

<Reporter Jeong Hye-kyung>

A duck meat shop located in Gangbuk-gu, Seoul.

This restaurant is represented by Representative Gwang-haeng Heo, who was the chairman of the welfare committee for the first half of the Gangbuk-gu Council.

[Restaurant official: (at the city council) Have a lot of dinners. There is also a seat on the second floor. Ducks, greasy, and a lot of soup.] The

chairman of the Gangbuk-gu council has spent 13 million won over 59 times in the past two years in the name of various meetings and business consultations in this restaurant.


7.1% of the total business promotion cost, the largest amount spent in a single restaurant.

Next, in the restaurant that spent a lot of money on promotion, less than half were spent.

The person who wrote the most is the chairman of the first half, Lee Baek-gyun.

[Lee Baek-gyun/Seoul Gangbuk-gu Assemblyman: Actually, there was a case in which our congressman was represented by one representative. I admit that.]

Assemblyman Heo, who has served as a restaurant representative since running for the time, did not spend business promotion fees in his shop.

[Heo Kwang-haeng/Seoul Gangbuk-gu Assemblyman: I have to go to the restaurant anyway and have a meeting, but since I'm a council member, I think if you're here, let's do this. But it wasn't a reservation from me, how did I come to use it one day, and I don't know anything, I don't

necessarily own it.

Over the past two years, 33 million won has been paid for this project in Nowon-gu, Seoul.

On average, it is about 1.44 million won per month.

If you calculate the business promotion cost used in one restaurant, it is the number one nationwide.

Among them, the first half chairman Kyung-cheol Lee spent more than half of 18.78 million won.

The number of payments was 64, and about 280,000 costs were used at a time.

He said it was not a violation of current laws or regulations.

In addition, there were many cases where the spouse, relatives, and acquaintances managed to drive business promotion expenses to a restaurant or regular house.

The total of 276 billion won has been spent in the past two years by the chairman of the 226 foundation councils nationwide.

However, as in the previous cases, there is no rule that can prevent the cost of driving a specific company.


<Reporter Bae Yeo-woon>

19,291 cases, the total number of business promotion expenses used by the chairman of the first half of the National Basic Assembly launched in July 2018.

Mabujakchi acquired this as an information disclosure request and analyzed it.

Over the past two years, 226 presidencies have spent 276 billion won on business promotion, of which 93% has been spent on food.

The chairman of the Samcheok city council in Gangwon spent the most amount of 144.47 million won, while the chairman of the Cheongsong County Council in Gyeongbuk was the lowest of 892 million won.

It was used more than 10 times by Chairman Samcheok.

Let's look at each parliament. The chairman of the Jeonju Jeonju City Council, the largest number of people, spent 295 million won for the past two years, while the chairman of the Cheongsong-gun Council, Choi Min-in, spent 28.21 million won.

There is also a difference of about 10 times.

In terms of financial independence, Jeonju is three times higher than Cheongsong, but the business promotion cost is ten times higher.

Why is this? This is because there is no standard for organizing work promotion costs, and each council decides autonomously.

[Lee Sang-suk/Catch the Tax Thief Secretary-General: This is a very unique situation. Since it was raised by the Congressional Secretariat, it must have been raised by the executive department as well. It can be said that the executive branch and the parliament were unable to fulfill their roles and roles.] The

National Human Rights Commission of Korea 7 years ago recommended that the basic council should not use business promotion fees on weekends, holidays, and late-night hours.

However, according to the analysis, I wrote 9,713 holidays, and 678 nights after 11:00 pm.

The Gangdong-gu council in Seoul was 620, the largest number of holidays in the country, and it was 14 times more than the average of the total number of basic councils, 44.

Gangdong-gu said that it plans to establish a code of conduct based on the standards of the National Human Rights Commission.

Tomorrow, we will look at another illegal-convenience situation of work promotion costs and improvement measures.

(Video coverage: Ju-jin Joo, Video editing: Seung-jin Lee, CG: Sung-yong Hong, Jae-young Choi, Ye-jung Lee, VJ: Young-sam Jeong, Han-wook Jung, and Cho-ah Kim)