"Mrs. Kim vs. Lee Jae-myung" is going into the parliamentary inspection..."Witness Not Attendance" Clashes Everywhere

[Anchor]
With the curtain rising on the first parliamentary audit of the 22nd National Assembly, the ruling and opposition parties clashed strongly from the first day.

The opposition party even issued a companion order to related companies, saying it would find out the true nature of the Kim Gun-hee allegation, and the ruling party launched a counterattack against the suspicion of Kim Hye-kyung, the wife of Lee Jae-myung.

I'm reporter Jeong In-yong.

[Reporter]
The Democratic Party of Korea has made it clear that it will make the first parliamentary audit of the 22nd National Assembly "the National Assembly inspection of First Lady Kim Gun-hee."

The plan is to make the most of the National Assembly's authority to investigate various suspicions such as accepting luxury bags, manipulating stock prices, and intervening in nominations.

[Lee Jae-myung / Minjoo Party leader: Please fulfill your original role of monitoring and checking (the National Assembly) on state affairs so that our people can feel a little cool and hopeful.]

The power of the people should be a "people's livelihood inspection" to improve the lives of the people based on the government's wrongdoings.

At the same time, the Democratic Party of Korea set the day that it is trying to attract suspicions of Kim to the National Assembly for the representative Lee Jae-myung's bulletproofness.

[Choo Kyung-ho / People's Power Floor Leader: Who kept the National Assembly in the swamp of political strife for his own bulletproofness? /You should not use the power of a large opposition leader to hide your crimes and exert undue influence.]

As the parliamentary inspection began in earnest, the Democratic Party pointed out the issue of not attending witnesses as announced, and immediately issued a "companion order."

When there was no '21 grams' representative who is a sponsor of the exhibition agency operated by First Lady Kim and is suspected of illegally expanding the presidential residence, he started to execute it himself.

[Yoon Gun-young / National Assembly Commissioner for Public Administration and Security, Minjoo Party of Korea: They've already run away. I can't even hear anything. (President) An essential witness to the alleged construction of the official residence.

In the Science, Technology, Information, Broadcasting and Communications Committee, which was also noisy over the issuance of an order to accompany President Lee Jin-sook, there was a war of words between the opposition party and the ruling party, which pushed for the impeachment of Chairman Lee to reveal the true nature of the broadcasting authority and called it "super power abuse."

In particular, while the ruling party defended Chairman Lee's alleged corporate card, the investigation of Representative Lee's wife, Kim Hye-kyung, was also recalled.

[Park Jung-hoon / National Assembly Security Service, People's Power: Do you know how much Kim Hye-kyung spent? I spent three years and two months using my corporate card as my living expenses. I did "Wise Company Car Life".]

When the ruling party raised the controversy over the transfer of Lee's emergency medical helicopter, the opposition party mentioned Kim's patrol of Mapo Bridge and responded that welfare was not for "image making."

On the first day, the National Assembly also asked questions about pending issues of people's livelihoods, such as measures to resolve the medical crisis and deepfake crimes.

However, as most of them are focused on the suspicion of Kim and Lee's judicial risks, there are growing concerns that the inspection of the government will also lead to political strife in the future.

This is YTN Jeong Yong-yong.


Filmmaker: Lee Sang-chang
Video editing: Yang Young-woon