YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 22, 2024 (Fri)
□ Host: Announcer Park Gui-bin
□ Castor: Yoo Chul-hwan, Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission
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◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): A wise life white paper Friday looks for rights that are missed in life with the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. Today, we invited Yoo Chul-hwan, chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, to the studio. Welcome, Chairman.
◇Yoo Chul-hwan, chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (hereinafter referred to as Yoo Chul-hwan): Yes, nice to meet you.
◆Park Gui Bin: Please say hello to your listeners.
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: I'm Yoo Chul-hwan, chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. It's very nice to meet you. I'll tell you good things today as well.
◆Park Gui-bin: Please introduce the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission briefly.
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: It might be a bit unfamiliar.The Commission on Rights and Interests was established in 2008 by integrating the National Integrity Commission, the Complaint Handling Commission, and the Central Administrative Appeals Commission. In order to protect the rights and interests of the people and realize a clean society, it is in charge of handling grievance complaints, administrative trials, unreasonable system improvement, and implementation of anti-corruption policies. Meanwhile, I would like to explain a little more about the function of protecting rights and interests. We are relieving the infringed rights and interests by dealing with civil complaints or administrative trials for illegal or unfair administrative dispositions, and in the process, if the legal system is insufficient and infringement of the rights and interests of the people occurs repeatedly, we will recommend related agencies to improve the system to fundamentally solve the problem.
◆Park Gui-bin: The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission was so detailed that I think our listeners would have understood it right away. In a way, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission may feel a little difficult to say, but in fact, it is working most closely to our people.
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: I think it would be good to think of it as a rights and interests protection agency.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. I heard that there have been so many achievements in solving the grievances of the people for two and a half years since the inauguration of the government, and as you may already know, please tell me about the achievements in detail.
◇ Yoo Chul-hwan: In the past two and a half years, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has handled about 23,000 complaints, of which 6,600 have been resolved directly. The citation rate, which can be expressed as the rate of resolution of grievance complaints, is 28.4%, which is 6.8% higher than the previous government period. As a result, 668 collective complaints were resolved over two and a half years, resolving the grievances of about 260,000 people and blocking them before the social conflict over them spread. Simply speaking, the completion of the Yeongju Multipurpose Dam, which had been delayed for seven years, solved the long-cherished projects of 33,000 local residents, including the development of waterfront tourist attractions, and the agreement to relocate emergency runways around Uljin enabled the construction of Shin Hanul Nuclear Power Plant units 3 and 4, which announced the start of the nuclear power plant's revival. In addition, by coordinating collective complaints at Pohang Suseong Shooting Range, we were able to find a balance between national security and resident welfare and resuming helicopter shooting training for the U.S. Forces Korea. In addition, two days ago, Gwangju Metropolitan City and yesterday, Songpa-gu, Seoul, resolved collective complaints from apartment residents through mediation. So, the local complainants showed a lot of love.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. It is an institution that protects the rights and interests of the people, and you have said these things all this time, and you have put a lot of effort into protecting the rights and interests of the socially underprivileged. Please explain that part, too.
◇ Yoo Chul-hwan: I think it is our responsibility to examine the grievances of the people and resolve them so that there is no injustice or inconvenience. Among them, we emphasize the need to look more closely at the difficulties of the socially disadvantaged, especially the vulnerable and the underprivileged. For the general public, simply uncomfortable problems can come as great difficulties for the vulnerable. Since I took office as chairman in January, I have made a lot of efforts to solve the difficulties of the socially underprivileged through civil complaints or administrative trials that have been filed with the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. In particular, through on-site meetings, we wanted to directly identify the difficulties of the vulnerable, such as Hansen, young people preparing for self-reliance, North Korean defectors, and crisis families in the blind spot of welfare, and come up with effective measures. To this end, we were able to find new targets for support through the Dali National Newspaper and sign business agreements with various organizations that agreed to provide necessary help to those in need effectively.
◆Park Gui-bin: Those of us who love Slasans will know about the running national newspaper and the national newspaper. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission is doing it to the point where you think, "This isn't done in Slausanne." It's a national newspaper that runs, so you deal with a lot of complaints from the people. You also told me about the issues of protecting the rights and interests of the socially underprivileged, and when I saw it, the chairman named the Hansen Protection in a media outlet like this. Did you know that?
◇ Yoo Chul-hwan: I think it's a title that I'm sorry for.
◆Park Gui-bin: What do you think? What kind of things do you think you got this nickname for?
◇ Yoo Chul-hwan: As you all know, Hansen people have suffered the most social prejudice and discrimination throughout history and throughout the East and West, and even their children have not escaped the yoke of negative stigma. Currently, there are about 7,600 Hansen people in Korea, and most of them are elderly and disabled people who live in settlements with poor residential conditions without any income. The Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has recommended comprehensive measures to improve environmental welfare in settlements of Hansen's protection of rights and interests to central foreign ministries, 66 local governments, and related agencies and continues to manage them. Even after January of this year when I took office, I visited nine Hansen facility settlement villages, including Sorokdo Island. We listened to the voices of the field and provided necessary support such as grievance counseling and civil complaint resolution. In particular, Yeosu-si and Andong-si were selected as a national environmental improvement public offering project in August and October with the coordination and help of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission and are promoting a settlement improvement project worth about 30 billion won. It is expected that the welfare level of local residents as well as Hansen residents in the village will be greatly improved by maintaining harmful facilities such as livestock abandoned in the settlement and creating parks.
◆Park Gui-bin: Hansen people had too much social prejudice and discrimination, and there are still about 7,000 people, and this is why the family has been branded as something. That's right. So he said that he is also working hard to protect the rights and interests of Hansen people. But besides Hansen, there are many socially underprivileged people. You mentioned it earlier, but what kind of efforts are you making about them now?
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: I'll tell you more. In July this year, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission signed a business agreement with organizations such as the Korea Racing Authority and Grand Korea Leisure to promote a project to support the discovery of welfare blind spots. Despite the desperate need for economic help, we have discovered 50 new families in crisis that do not receive institutional support from the government due to special circumstances and provided an additional 50 million won in total, 1 million won each. And in June, we held a meeting for young people preparing for self-reliance who were protected by child care facilities and others and whose protection was terminated after the age of 18 and listened to their grievances in person. So, since then, we have signed a business agreement with a law firm that conducts social contribution activities, appointing 12 lawyers as mentors for young people preparing for self-reliance, and mentoring them on life law knowledge.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. After making such efforts, you said earlier that you are also working on the socially underprivileged about North Korean defectors. How about that part?
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: There are about 34,000 North Korean defectors, and they had a lot of difficulty adapting to our society. So I thought that we should actively work on that and prepare for the upcoming era of unification. In August, our Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission held a meeting with North Korean defectors to listen to their difficulties and seek ways to solve the problems of residence, employment, and the spread of negative perceptions with related agencies. Also last week, the Ministry of Unification, the National Human Rights Commission of Korea, and the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission held a discussion on the human rights situation of North Koreans. Former Cuban Embassy North Korean Embassy disaster Lee Il-kyu attended the meeting and testified about North Korean human rights.
◆Park Gui-bin: Yes, that's right. Like this, we are steadily making efforts to protect the rights and interests of the socially underprivileged. There are systems in the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission that make the public feel uncomfortable. Then, you also send recommendations to each ministry so that you can find and recommend the system. I think it would be good to point out that part now. Let's take a look at each field. First of all, what was the outcome of the recommendation for system improvement in the field of low birth rate?
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: You asked a good question. The issue of low birth rate is a very important issue, and our government is also making it a very national task. The total fertility rate in Korea was 0.72 last year, the lowest ever in the world. So, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission also sought various measures to solve the low birth rate problem and received some suggestions from the people through surveys. Currently, government officials who returned to work after parental leave have been actively incentivized by changing practices that have been disadvantaged in terms of promotion or evaluation due to leave, and have recommended that the entire period of parental leave be recognized as a work experience and that the leave allowance be raised to the basic level. In addition, there are not a few cases where spouses have to postpone childbirth plans or take care of child-rearing alone due to different workplaces, so we have worked hard to create child-friendly working conditions by preparing measures to work in areas such as civil servants and prospective couples. I think it is the result of not only the efforts of our committee but also the efforts of the government. In July this year, the number of births increased by 7.9% compared to the same month last year, and in August, it rose 5.9% compared to the same month last year, which is an encouraging phenomenon.
◆Park Gui-bin: You also recommended a lot of improving the system for the younger generation. How about that?
◇ Yoo Chul-hwan: I think the biggest concern for young people is employment. So, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has also been trying to lower the employment threshold for young people. It was recommended to abolish all preferential treatment, such as exemption from application subjects, which was only given to public officials in the national qualification examination, such as accountants, patent attorneys, and tax accountants, to expand fair employment opportunities for young people. In addition, the recognition period for official language test scores such as TOEIC, which is a requirement for taking the national professional qualification test, was extended from two years to five years to ease the burden on test takers. And I also worked hard to improve the dormitory conditions that college students are very interested in. Currently, 43% of the dormitories run by universities were aged over 20 years. In addition, because it is mainly operated in four rooms, there was a problem that the vacancy rate continued to rise because it did not match the lifestyle of the MZ generation and young people who grew up as only children. Accordingly, the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission recommended changing dormitories and improving aging facilities in the form of a combination of independent living spaces and public spaces instead of other rooms, reflecting the preferences of university students' consumers.
◆Park Gui-bin: You're trying to improve these systems in so many fields, but you only have about a minute left, so I think we'll have to look at this. You're also working on this part to create a fair society.
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: It has been reported in the media recently, but we have recommended it to the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism to solve the problem of ticket sales for performances and sports games. Singer Lim Young-woong's concert ticket ticket has become a hot topic because of such a deal that hurts 5 million won, but the increased ticket price deprives the general public of the opportunity to watch culture and arts, so the performance law was revised to punish ticket sellers. In addition, the system was improved for the efficient execution of the government budget. Even if local council members are subject to disciplinary measures such as suspension of attendance, they have continued to pay medical bills, proposed to limit them, and have recommended public institutions to use public air miles to support vulnerable groups.
◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. In addition to this, you've made some achievements in the field of administrative judgment. I will also ask you when you come back a few months later, and the listener said, "Thank you for the hard work of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission." I would appreciate it if you could listen more to the voices of the people, especially the weak. ’. Dear listener, "Thank you so much for extending the expiration date to 5 years." It's very helpful for job seekers. ’ He sent me a text message. Chairman, we have about 20 seconds left. Please say something.
◇ Yoo Chul-hwan: Our Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission has been continuously making institutional efforts to solve the difficulties of the people and to deal with grievances. If the people continue to support us in the future, we will continue to have courage and continue to make efforts to prevent corruption in our society, such as dealing with grievances, improving systems, and so on.
◆Park Gwibin: I see. This has been Yoo Chul-hwan, chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission. Thank you.
◇Yoo Chul-hwan: Yes, thank you.
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