YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 29, 2024 (Fri)
□ Host: Announcer Park Gui-bin
□ Castor: Shin Dong-seop, Incheon Metropolitan Councilman
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◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): Wise Radio Life This time is with the Incheon City Council, which has become the foot of 3 million Incheon citizens and is drawing a new Incheon special era. Today, we have Shin Dong-seop at Incheon City Council Studio. Hello, Senator.
◇ Incheon Metropolitan Councilman Shin Dong-seop (hereinafter referred to as Shin Dong-seop): Yes, hello.
◆Park Gwi-bin: First of all, can you say hello to our listeners and citizens?
◇Shin Dong-seop: Hello. Nice to meet you, wise radio listeners. In particular, it must have been hard because it snowed a lot a few days ago, but I hope you are safe and safe. It's really nice to meet you.
◆Park Gwi-bin: Welcome. Senator, I have a nice badge on my left chest right now. What is this?
◇Shin Dong-seop: Since I'm touring the district every day from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., the first thing our residents did was Shin Dong-seop, an Incheon city councilor who is more wonderful than flowers, and this has changed. I gave him a badge like this, a master of communication who runs with Shin Dong-seop's feet.
◆Park Gui-bin: There are red hearts in front and back of Shin Dong-seop. It's a badge called a master of communication who runs with his feet. You have a nice badge on your left chest from the citizens, and you must be very proud.
◇Shin Dong-seop: And now we celebrated in Incheon yesterday.
◆Park Gui Bin: That's right. Please tell me the news, too.
◇ Shin Dong-seop: The Incheon High Court's bid for Incheon was announced at the plenary session of the National Assembly yesterday. The plenary session was passed, and I was very proud to come here today to achieve the goal that Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok, 3 million Incheon citizens, and 39 Incheon city councilors gathered together.
◆Park Gwi-bin: Congratulations. In fact, when I talked with the members of the Incheon City Council, I often talked about the Incheon High Court and said that it is a long-cherished dream of Incheon City. Finally, the happy news came out yesterday, so you looked very happy when you came in today. Now, many Incheon citizens can solve the things they need more comfortably in their daily lives. That's what I think.
◇Shin Dong-seop: I've been a member of the Public Administration and Security Committee and chairman since July 1, 2022, haven't I? Now, as a member of the Public Administration and Security Committee, he is now engaged in legislative activities in the second half of the year. The reason why I am a member of the Public Administration and Security Committee is because the Public Administration and Security Committee is working on all the tasks of the local police, including the personnel organization budget and the fire department, civil safety, and safety. Even now, I am working hard on my column after the resolution to enact the ordinance, then five minutes of free speech, corrective questions, and so on. Then, we recently completed an administrative audit.
◆Park Gui Bin: Right?
◇Shin Dong-seop: We are deliberating and voting on the 2nd supplementary budget for 2024 and the main budget for 2025.
◆Park Gui-bin: Then let me ask you one by one. You just said it, didn't you finish the administrative audit a while ago? What you pointed out here is that Incheon's local consumption tax and the distribution of the regional win-win development fund are unfair and unreasonable. What is it about?
◇Shin Dong-seop: I strongly requested the Minister of Public Administration and Security through a 5-minute free speech at the 2nd regular meeting of the 299th. There is a need to make the contributions and allocations for regional win-win development more accurate. Let me briefly tell you this. As of 2022, we received 8 billion won in local consumption tax among local taxes. But in the case of Busan, it receives 16 billion won because it received twice as much weight. However, we are also disadvantaged in allocating local consumption taxes like this, and among these local consumption taxes, Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon are the metropolitan areas because of the local win-win development fund, right? We are receiving contributions from this side and distributing them to 17 cities and provinces. However, since we are disadvantaged in the distribution of local consumption taxes and the regional win-win development fund is disadvantaged in the contribution, I strongly asked the Minister of Public Administration and Security and Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok to work harder. In fact, we have a contribution of 68.8 billion won for regional win-win development. But we pay a lot of that and what we receive is about 8.6 billion to 9.1 billion, but we have 16.1 billion won distributed without paying Busan for local win-win development. This unreasonable structure is not desirable, so of course, as a member of the Incheon Metropolitan City Committee who loves Incheon citizens, this should be fixed. That's why I strongly insisted.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. Then how do you think it should be improved?
◇Shin Dong-seop: As I'm the chairman of the Public Administration and Security Committee, I think we need to reduce the contribution a little and increase the distribution a little because there are too many contributions. Or we're disadvantaged in the metropolitan area, so I think we need to take it out of the metropolitan area or fix it quickly.
◆Park Gui-bin: We need some equity in the allocation of funds?
◇Shin Dong-seop: So if you don't fix it, I put the contribution on hold two or three times when I was chairman of the Public Administration and Security Committee. So, from 8.6 billion now to 15.8 billion next year, 7.2 billion will increase. If not, we will impose certain sanctions on the contribution of the regional win-win development fund.
◆Park Gwibin: I see. That's why you pointed out that it's unfair now in relation to the distribution of the win-win development fund in the local consumption tax region. And I think I told you this when you came out at the time. You have another nickname, "Ordinance King", but you're still working on it, right?
◇Shin Dong-seop: That's right. Isn't our Incheon Metropolitan Council member the representative of the residents? It is important to deliberate on the budget, but I think the most important thing is legislative activity. I think YTN gave me the title of "Ordinance King." The reason why I exercised the ordinance a lot is that I carried out my constituency from 5 a.m. to 9 a.m., and then I went to work at the assembly every day at around 10 a.m., watched it through the media, and then made it an ordinance that residents filed complaints. And I want to emphasize once again that it's YTN that we attached the crown to.
◆Park Gui-bin: But the reason why we have to say "Ordinance King" is because didn't you make about 16 this year?
◇Shin Dong-seop: I have now done a total of 48 ordinances from July 1, 2020 to this year. And I did 16 cases this year, and it's important that I actually proposed a lot of ordinances, but I benefited a lot from this ordinance. I'll tell you one thing because of the time. The Sangsang Military Police, those who dispatched to Vietnam, and our veterans' organizations who fought the Korean War are almost 6 to 90 years old now. This is what they always say. It's time for me to die, but wouldn't I want to do something to my spouse who took care of me for the rest of my life? So, I think that's the meaning of the ordinance proposal because from January 2024, 6,565 spouses will be paid widow's allowance and spouse's allowance of 50,000 won per month.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's what you're saying.
◇Shin Dong-seop: There are 48 such ordinances.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. That's why you've been doing so many ordinance activities, so if you summarize it in one word, you'll become the ordinance king.
◇Shin Dong-seop: Thank you YTN for naming it.
◆Park Gui-bin: And there is an ordinance enacted for the first time in the country.
◇Shin Dong-seop: In October this year, the ordinance on the reduction of public interest litigation costs and the ordinance on free vaccination for those aged 65 and over were enacted. I originally proposed it as an ordinance on supporting public interest litigation, but it was not delegated by the Ministry of Legislation to local governments, so I passed it as an ordinance on the reduction of public interest litigation. What this is is that when a lawsuit occurs between Incheon City and citizens, our Incheon citizens lose to Incheon City because they lack information, right? For these people, there are many things to improve, such as the socially underprivileged or those who need to rescue minority rights. But when these people lose against a lawsuit or Incheon City, doesn't Incheon City try to bring the cost of the lawsuit again? In this case, we did it for the first time in 17 cities, especially at the metropolitan level, because they said it was necessary to reduce the litigation cost to them within a certain budget.
◆Park Gui-bin: I see.
◇Shin Dong-seop: Next, regardless of income, I proposed free vaccination for 65-year-old people, but in the beginning, some of them said it was populist, so of course, 40 out of 39 lawmakers this time, but one is now the head of Ganghwa County. Since 38 people jointly proposed it and passed it this time, 65-year-old seniors can receive free vaccinations for shingles.
◆Park Gwi-bin: You can get it. When does that start?
◇Shin Dong-seop: From January 1st next year. January 1st. I'm doing something in Incheon that I can't even do in Seoul.
◆Park Gui-bin: Senior citizens aged 65 or older who are citizens of Incheon are vaccinated with shingles for free.
◇Shin Dong-seop: That's right. From January 1st next year. Now, the annual budget is about 17 billion to 17.5 billion, and I made it an ordinance because Mayor Yoo Jeong-bok of Incheon Metropolitan City should not spare such a budget.
◆Park Gui-bin: Is it the first time in the country?
◇Shin Dong-seop: That's right.
◆Park Gui-bin: You have prepared a foothold to protect the health of seniors aged 65 and over, and I heard that you have made three resolutions in the past two years other than this. Please introduce this briefly.
◇ Shin Dong-seop: We have now done three of the resolutions. We insisted on the dualization of the autonomous police. The reason for this resolution is that we generally don't go to the precincts when there is a security problem? But don't you want Incheon police for our autonomous police? But the entire police force in Incheon is the national police force. As a result, the self-governing police is a police officer in charge. As a result, the organization's budget and others are very disadvantageous, so we decided to correct the security of 3 million citizens by turning them into Incheon police. Next, our Incheon is the only country with an increasing population. On that side, don't you have the world's free economic bureau and Incheon Airport and ports? However, among Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Incheon, the head of the fire department in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Busan is the only one in Korea, followed by the head of the fire department in Seoul, Gyeonggi, and Busan. We're the only firefighters in the second grade. This doesn't have control power, does it? So, as the head of our fire department, we needed to quickly upgrade the position to the first-class fire fighting spirit. Then, during the Korean War, the North Korean army turned the tide, didn't it? But isn't Minister MacArthur preserving the Republic of Korea as a democratic country through the Incheon landing operation? So, I made three resolutions to make the September 15 Incheon Landing Operation a national holiday.
◆Park Gui-bin: Why are you working so hard when you don't think you'll have a day off?
◇Shin Dong-seop: I have to tell you this once. I'll introduce you to YTN twice because of this ordinance and YTN Science once. I appeared three times. What it is is that it enacted an ordinance on fire prevention and safety facility support in environmentally friendly car parking areas. You know the electric car case in our Cheongna-dong apartment.
◆Park Gui-bin: There was a fire incident.
◇Shin Dong-seop: That's how I became a national celebrity. In particular, our YTN appeared on No. 3 and became a famous person on YTN, and then benchmarked this ordinance.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. He created an ordinance on fire prevention and safety facilities in environment-friendly car parking areas before the Cheongna electric vehicle fire accident, so I thought he prepared it in advance. Time is passing by already. We have 40 seconds left. We always ask when the Incheon city councilor comes out. The Incheon Metropolitan Councilman is ○○○. Since I asked this last time, we'll change the question this time. To Shin Dong-seop, a lawmaker of Incheon City, what is Incheon?
◇Shin Dong-seop: The home and nest of the heart.
◆Park Gui-bin: The hometown of the heart is Dongzhi.
◇Shin Dong-seop: Because I'm a village guy in Cheorwon, Gangwon-do, and I'm serving three terms as a local councilor in Incheon, so if I'm the hometown of politics, I'm too political, so I think I'll have to work hard for Incheon's 3 million citizens as my hometown and my second hometown.
◆Park Gwibin: I see. You appeared in Spring, Summer, and Winter, and there is one more season left. I think you should come out in the fall, but I think the badge made by citizens will be bigger then. So far, I've been with Incheon City Council member Shin Dong-seop. Thank you.
◇Shin Dong-seop: Thank you.
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