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Early voting for local elections will be held from tomorrow (27th), and this time, let's take a look at the extent to which local workers, local government leaders we elect, exercise enormous personnel power.



Reporter Lee Kyung-won, continuous reporting by the SBS Fact Check 'Actually' team and the data journalism 'Crazy' team.



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According to the latest statistics, there are about 11,000 public officials belonging to Seoul City Hall.



The right to greet them rests with the mayor of Seoul.



In fact, the team calculated that the heads of the 243 cities, towns and villages to be elected in this election exercise full power over the personnel management of about 292,000 of their civil servants.



This is not the end.



Although there are various procedures for the formation of the board of directors and the heads of organizations affiliated with local governments such as corporations, industrial complexes, and foundations with local names, the de facto authority for appointment rests with the group heads.



A total survey conducted by local government-affiliated organizations reached 1,255 places.



Gyeonggi-do and each city-gun-gu had the most with 254, followed by Gangwon with 117 and Gyeongbuk with 111.



Considering that institutional personnel are appointed through the head of an affiliated organization appointed by the head of the organization, the scope of the person's authority to influence the organization head elected in this election is much larger.



The number of employees of affiliated organizations was calculated to be about 109,000.



The 243 city, county, and gu group heads elected this time can be seen to exert direct and indirect influence on about 400,000 personnel, from their civil servants to those of affiliated organizations.



Central politics always says, “It’s a code person, it’s a person close to you,” and there are a lot of jokes and errors, but the reality is that local politics are not well-received, so monitoring is neglected.



At least, it is the local councilors who will be elected in this election that check the right to appoint the group head, but the interest of the voters is not high.



The reason why this local election is so heavy is that it selects the group heads who control 400,000 personnel and workers to monitor them.



(Video editing: Choi Hye-young, CG: Ahn Ji-hyeon, Cho Hyeon-seo)