Kim In-cheol, an outside director of the company during his time as president... Controversy over self-approval for concurrent positions

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It was confirmed that Kim In-cheol, a candidate for deputy prime minister and education minister, received a salary of over 100 million won while concurrently serving as an outside director while he was the president of the university.

According to university regulations, if you want to do other work together, you must get permission from the president, but there are also suspicions that candidate Kim gave the permission himself as the president.

Reporter Jeong Ban-seok reported.

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is the salary breakdown of the Minister of Education Kim In-cheol, who was then the president of Hankuk University of Foreign Studies in 2018 and 2019.

From March 2018 to December 2019, during his term as president, he served as an outside director of Lotte Advanced Materials and received a total of 110 million won in remuneration.

It is very unusual for a university president to serve as an outside director of a company, and only 2% of full-time faculty members at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies have served as an outside director.

Candidate Kim is also being suspected of having obtained 'self-approval' in the process of taking over as an outside director.

According to the service regulations at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, if professors or other faculty members hold concurrent positions, they must obtain permission from the president.

It is pointed out that it is a problem that the president himself, who is the right holder of the permission, went to the company concurrently because it was a device designed to prevent the professor from fulfilling his duties as a professor of student education and academic research as a profit-seeking act.

In addition, candidate Kim has also served as an outside director of Lotte GRS, which operates Lotteria, etc., since the 21st of last month, right after the resignation of the president.

He took on the role of an outside director of a Lotte affiliate one after another, and candidate Kim expressed his position that he would have an opportunity to explain through the organized data, so please wait.

Hankuk University of Foreign Studies replied that there was nothing to be said about the fact that there were no facts related to the concurrent position.

(Video coverage: Jeon Gyeong-bae, Kim Nam-seong, Video editing: Lee Seung-jin)