Additional suspicions have been raised that the second daughter of Choo Kyung-ho, the Minister of Strategy and Finance, may have been given preference in the process of being hired as an indefinite contract worker at the Korea Foundation for Science and Creativity, a public institution.
According to data submitted by the Korea Foundation for Science and Creativity by Rep. Jeong Il-young, a member of the National Assembly Planning and Finance Committee, the daughter of Candidate Choo received less than half of the perfect score in the written evaluation when she was hired as an indefinite contract worker from a dispatched service company in 2018. It turned out to be a score.
Choo's daughter's written score was 9.93 out of 20, placing her 41st out of 56 applicants for the same position.
Rep. Jung Il-young pointed out that candidate Chu's daughter's score at the time was not even the average of the written scores of the unsuccessful applicants, 10.7 points. I did.
However, candidate Chu's daughter received 34.56 points out of 40 in the interview, which is a qualitative evaluation, and 36.83 out of 40 points in the 'organizational evaluation' item, which is given by the head, department head, and colleagues. turned out to be
Based on this, Rep. Jung raised suspicions that Candidate Chu's influence was at work in her daughter's transitional hiring process at the time.
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At the time of her daughter's hiring transition, Candidate Chu was a member of the Liberty Korea Party and served as secretary of the National Assembly's Planning and Finance Committee, which could influence budgets for public institutions.
In addition, at the time, the Science and Creativity Foundation was headed by Chairman Park Tae-hyun, appointed by the Park Geun-hye government, and among the non-executive directors, Lee Young, a member of the People's Power and a candidate for the Minister of SMEs and Startups, was also included.
Regarding the suspicion of her child's hiring preference, Candidate Choo stated that she had never been involved in her daughter's transition recruitment process and did not know of candidate Lee Young at the time.
Democratic Party lawmaker Jeong Il-young, who raised the suspicion, said, "The controversy over father-elect Yoon Seok-yeol, who spoke of fairness and common sense, continues to arise over his father-in-law's chance candidates. It is necessary to reveal the details of the allegations of preferential treatment,” he pointed out.