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Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon said that taxes were wasted supporting civic groups and that he would change it. He also said that the city's finances have been reduced to a cash machine for civic groups, but most of the issues raised were projects under former Mayor Park Won-soon.



Correspondent Han So-hee.



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is a village autonomous center in Gangseo-gu, Seoul.



As a privately-consigned business, the annual budget is KRW 310 million.



Of that, 60%, or 180 million won, is the labor cost of four center employees.



When operating expenses are added to this, the actual project cost is less than 30% of the budget.



There are 23 such village autonomous centers in Seoul, and more than half of the total budget of 7.3 billion won goes to labor costs.



Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon declared restructuring, saying that nearly 1 trillion won was spent in private subsidies and consignments over the past 10 years, but it was not effectively implemented.



They criticized that the civic group-type multi-level system in which the subsidy was distributed and the civic group that received the subsidy entrusted the business to another group was eating away at the tax.



[Seoul Mayor Oh Se-hoon: The barns of Seoul, which are difficult to maintain due to the blood of citizens, have eventually been reduced to ATM machines exclusively for civic groups.] The



Social Investment Fund, which paid 4 billion won in the name of a trust while entrusting the operation of the fund to a specific group, is also a problem. took it



He also said that he is conducting an audit on private consignment projects such as social housing, Nodeulseom complex cultural space, and youth space 'zero gravity zone'.



These are all businesses that took place during the days of former Mayor Park Won-soon, and the groups protest that they were victims of Park Won-soon's erasure.



[Lee Hansol/Chairman of the Korea Social Housing Association: Satisfaction is very high as a supplement to public housing, but the group sells that the group is enjoying a little excessive profit just because it was a policy of another party... .] The



city ​​council, which had already clashed once over social housing, is also opposing Mayor Oh, saying that he is only looking at the failures of his predecessor.



(Video coverage: Hwang In-seok, video editing: So Ji-hye, VJ: Kim Hyeong-jin)