In
Part 2 of
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, we will focus on the issue of sexual violence in the National Assembly.
In the meantime, whenever a sexual assault case has arisen, members of the National Assembly have been vigorously raising their voices saying that they will eradicate sexual crime and create a system for that.
Let’s listen to it.
[Kim Seong-tae/Former Representative of the Free Korea Party (2018): Supported by the National Assembly, this sexual violence is systematically fundamentally.]
[Woo Won-sik/Democratic Party representative at the time (2018): It is time for the National Assembly to create an institutional alternative and set an example. .]
As a result, these and other laws were created. As a result of our coverage, sexual harassment and sexual harassment were still in the National Assembly, and lawmakers were ignoring sexual harassment prevention education.
Reporters Choi Woo-woon Choi, Ji-yoon Kwon, and Kwan-jin Kim will deliver the facts to the end of the SBS Exploration Report Department.
<Reporter
Choi Won-
woon>
A female assistant said that she had an unwanted physical contact from a member of the National Assembly.
I took the courage to respond to my interview.
[Assistant members of the National Assembly: There is a solitary confinement of the National Assembly members.
I went into the report on that side, but when I received the report, I touched my hand.]
I confessed that sexual harassment and harassment in the National Assembly are still there.
[Assistant members of the National Assembly: I once sent an obscene picture late at night.
I didn't respond, I just erased it because I was scared.]
Is it only for this assistant?
We spoke non-face-to-face with former and current female assistants.
If you go to a karaoke room with a lawmaker, you have to play blues, and on days when a lawmaker is serving someone, you are asked to sit next to it and drink.
Some lawmakers don't hesitate to say that you have to eat rice with a pretty girl or go with a female assistant to get a budget.
However, it is more difficult to raise issues than general companies because the lawmakers have the authority to hire assistants.
Not only covert sexual harassment and harassment, but also in and outside the National Assembly, and even in public seats, there are many remarks that are less sensitive to gender.
[Han Seongyo/Former Saenuri Party Member (last 2016): Why are you laughing?
I like it so much?
Don't laugh.]
[Yoo Eun-hye/Former Democratic Party Member: Apologize.
What do you mean by "I like me?", now.]
[Song Young-gil / Chairman of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Transportation Day (last month): It's just that the same guys hit the stomach once and the buttocks once.] With their
mouths, they shout to eradicate sexual violence
.
But the parliamentarians are different in their words and actions.
Until the end, the Panda team has obtained a document that can show the'unfamiliarity' of the lawmakers.
<Reporter Kwon Ji-yoon>
This document, which the Panda team obtained until the end, is a list of members of the National Assembly who participated in the sexual harassment prevention training conducted by the Ministry of State and Company.
This is the first time to be released, and it is about 10 years from August 2010, the 18th National Assembly, to May, when the 20th National Assembly ended.
Of the 648 members of the National Assembly during this period, 32 of them took sexual harassment prevention training, and only about 3 per year.
When looking at the 20th National Assembly alone, 8 members, including Kim Hae-young, Nam In-soon, and Moon Mi-ok, from the Democratic Party, and 9 from the opposition party, including Kim Jung-hoon, Kim Jung-ro, and Song Hee-kyung, attended the training.
Even though it includes 7 people who completed online, it is only 5.6% of 300 lawmakers.
This sexual harassment prevention education is held every year, and only two people, Nam In-soon and Lee Jong-myeong, attended twice, and the remaining 15 attended only once.
According to the law, it is mandatory for office workers and public officials to receive sexual harassment prevention training every year, but members of the National Assembly are omitted.
On the criticism date, a bill was proposed in the National Assembly in their twenties requiring lawmakers to take preventive education from the Ministry of State, and among the 12 lawmakers who initiated, only one former lawmaker Hae-young Kim took the training conducted by the secretariat.
[Kim Hae-young/Former Democratic Party Member: I attended after seeing the announcement of (Ministry of State Education).
(Did the education help?) There are parts that I didn't know about, and even if it's what I already know, it has the effect of being imprinted through education like this once more...
]
Excluding the power of the people, the Democratic Party and the Justice Party stated that gender equality education was stipulated in their party regulations and that they had their own education. However, since it is not compulsory, there is no way to verify whether or not there is any disadvantage or attendance.
In fact, multiple Democrats' former and current lawmakers said, "I didn't know if there was such a provision in the party regulations," "I don't remember receiving sexual harassment prevention training during the 20th National Assembly session," or "I think I did gender education for candidates running for the general election. I am busy, so I can't remember the contents."
All members of the National Assembly, who responded to the Panda Team's coverage until the end, said they all agree with the law on mandatory sexual harassment prevention education.
However, can I believe this as soon as it is?
<Reporter Kwan-jin Kim>
A law that requires members of the National Assembly to take sexual harassment prevention education at least once a year is not uninitiated.
From the 18th National Assembly to the last 20th National Assembly, it has never been proposed.
But it was only an initiative.
It was discarded as it was without being submitted to the standing committee under the jurisdiction of the 18th National Assembly.
In the 19th National Assembly, he was placed on the standing committee, but that was it.
The 20th National Assembly, this time up to the Standing Committee subcommittee, but the result is also abolition.
Looking at the repealed legislation, there are disciplinary provisions for sexual harassment lawmakers as well as sexual harassment prevention education.
The reasons for disciplinary action, such as sexual harassment, sexual violence, and prostitution, were specifically addressed, but what stands out is that the disciplinary proposal must be reviewed within three months so that it cannot be overlooked.
It also included content that prevents lawmakers expelled for discipline from running for the next election.
You can guess why these bills, lawmakers didn't deal with them.
Laws related to sexual harassment targeting companies, etc., have been greatly strengthened while not creating legislation to check the lawmakers themselves.
It is compulsory to receive sexual harassment prevention training in the workplace, but it must be received at least once a year, and a fine is imposed on business owners who do not comply.
In addition, there are regulations on investigation and punishment, so if sexual harassment occurs in the workplace, you must immediately investigate. If the victim is adversely treated within the organization, the employer may be sentenced to imprisonment.
[Kim Young-ran/Director of Namu Women's Human Rights Counseling Center: There are cases where we misunderstand that if you don't actually receive some education on gender sensitivity, your gender sensitivity is very high.
Recognizing that our lawmakers cannot be free from such gender violence...
.] Not
being able to take an example This is the reason why the words of the lawmakers who are restricting themselves to the rest of the world, and'Let's increase gender sensitivity' and'Let's eradicate sexual violence' sound empty words without soul.
(Video coverage: Bae Munsan, video editing: Park Player, CG: Yoo-jin Lee, Choi Jae-young, Lee Ye-jeong, Sung Jae-eun)
▶ The National Assembly without sexual harassment prevention education, sexual violence currently in progress