“Reporter,

does this make sense?



Mr. A, who lives in Incheon, said after sending a text message.

It is a mobile wedding invitation sent by National Assembly member Shin Dong-geun from Seo-gu, Incheon, saying that his child is having a wedding.

Mr. A continued, "I support the Democratic Party, but this behavior of a lawmaker insults the Democratic Party."



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When I saw the wedding invitation letter sent by Rep. Shin, it was really concise.

There was only one link to announce the marriage.

After inquiry, B and C, who live in Incheon, were also contacted.

These are also people who have received a group text message announcing the wedding from Rep. Shin or an aide in the constituency of Senator Shin.

Again, there were texts that only sent links, and there were brief introductions, but they were not sent to specific recipients.



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I recently opened a mobile wedding invitation that I received.

It was a text message that was affectionately called by name and carefully sent to see if it would cause any harm.

I wondered if I should at least show this kind of sincerity in order to invite my acquaintances.

The point where the residents were outraged, however, was not all.

Some of them are entrepreneurs and some are active in civic groups.

Rep. Shin and themselves are just a relationship between politicians and residents, not exchanging wedding invitations.

Moreover, in a world like these days, where people live in an expensive and expensive world, criminals are also holding small weddings and trying not to burden the people around them.



I suddenly had this thought.

If a member of the National Assembly sends out wedding invitations to local residents, the words will surely come out.

Could it have been sent to government spy agencies?

After organizing the institutions that are audited by the National Assembly Planning and Finance Committee, we checked them one by one.

Institutions would not have been able to open their mouths recklessly to lawmakers from the point of view of a righteous person.

So, I contacted people who had left the current office and found out that among them, an announcement about the marriage of a member of the National Tax Service was circulated to the National Tax Service.

There was no harvest other than the ambiguous answer of 'nothing officially came in' from other audited institutions.



Now is the time to ask Senator Shin directly.

Contrary to expectations, Rep. Shin did not give a stereotyped answer, "I didn't know. Everything was done by the aide."

Instead, he recounted to whom and why he sent them in a relatively small way.



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Q. Did you randomly send wedding invitations for your children to the residents of your constituency?


A. No.

It was not sent indiscriminately to ordinary residents who did not know the customary level.

Most of them are not strangers in the area.

In the case of the heads of related organizations, usually, if you pretend you don't know, you will come up with comments later and ask yourself why you didn't get married.



Q. To what kind of people did you send it?


A. It was said that the aide sent it to 263 people in groups and related institutions as a custom.



Q. Have you ever been sent to an agency?


A: None at all.

What sentinel are you sending that to?


Q. I heard that it was filed with the National Tax Service.


A. It seems that the National Tax Service employee, who is having a relationship with the National Tax Service in the National Assembly, is close to our aides and overestimates what he learned.



Doubts remain.

When sending a mobile wedding invitation to an 'acquaintance' you know, how many people just send a link without saying anything?

I don't know, but if you're going to invite someone you've seen once or twice, shouldn't you be more careful when inviting them?

Even if I make a hundred concessions, is it right to invite the people of the House of Representatives and related organizations?

Should they pay only 50,000 won in congratulatory money according to the Kim Young-ran Act?



I also don't understand the explanation of the notice of the IRS.

The National Tax Service staff member in charge of the National Assembly said it was 'wrong', but is that the NTS staff's fault?

Wouldn't it have been more thorough to crack down on his aides so that the news of the marriage would not be known to a spy agency such as the National Tax Service, who is the second in the Eul to Rep. Shin?

As Rep. Shin explained, even if the National Tax Service came first and asked for marriage-related information, wouldn't it have to be sent back, considering that it was an agency under investigation?



While conducting this interview, I looked into the situation on the side of the National Assembly to see if other members of the National Assembly might have taken a similar action.

There was one more Democrat who recently had a child's wedding.

However, it was only after the wedding was over that it became known little by little, and it is said that he received only 'congratulatory words' from fellow lawmakers and aides who wished to congratulate him later.

The aide in the parliamentary office said, "We don't know why the lawmaker is like that. Maybe it's because we don't want to put a burden on people around us, we only speculate."



Parents who want to be congratulated by the news of their children's marriage, relatives or acquaintances are probably the same.

However, in order to bear the weight of the position of a member of the National Assembly, it is not necessary to give up the feelings of other parents to gain respect from the local residents and the spy agency.