<Anchor> During the



Park Geun-hye administration, a reward system was introduced to send overseas business trips to public officials in charge of the basic pension who did a good job.

It was in the name of studying overseas cases, but when this business trip was blocked by Corona, the unspent budget was distributed in cash.



Reporter Ha Jeong-yeon reports.



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New Zealand and France, England and the United States.



This is a rewarding business trip that the government has sent over the past few years to boost the morale of civil servants in charge of basic pension work.



The title is a study on the overseas basic pension system, but most of them have only one or two work-related schedules on weekends.




What was it like last year when overseas business trips were blocked due to Corona?



The government distributed the budget in cash.



10 organizations and 60 front-line civil servants were selected and paid 200 million won.




Representatively, the basic pension-related departments of Seoul City Hall and Dobong-gu Office shared 13 million won and 18 million won, respectively.



[Dobong-gu Office Manager: We moved the money now, and then we distributed it to the ward office because of the excessive and our excessive. I understand that it was treated as an incentive expense or an incentive money.]



[Seoul City Hall manager: I gave a small reward to the employees.]



I looked at the reward standards.



The tasks under the jurisdiction of which it is necessary, such as actively discovering beneficiaries of the basic pension and managing the history of those who wish to receive the basic pension, are subject to evaluation.



The Ministry of



Health and Welfare

says that it was trying to block the unnecessary budget, but

[Ministry of Health and Welfare Officer: We

thought a

lot about the budget because we couldn't use it again. I was looking for a way to find a way to directly pay bounties to people of merit... .] It



is a violation of government reward work guidelines.



It is written that we should refrain from recommending public rewards for performing tasks under our jurisdiction, and actively reduce rewards that have been customary if they include public officials.



[Kang Seon-woo / Member of the Democratic Party of Korea: I was just performing the duties that I should have done. But is this rewarded in cash? It is not appropriate from the perspective of the people and common sense. So that the business performance can be evaluated in a reasonable way even now... .]



Whether it is right to continue to spend tax on customary rewards just because you did what you ought to do, seems to need a reasonable adjustment.



(Video coverage: Kim Heung-sik, Lee Yong-han, Seol Min-hwan, Kim Yong-woo, video editing: Lee Seung-jin, CG: Kim Jong-un, Eom So-min)