"1.5 trillion won, 'debt' left by former Governor Lee Jae-myung." People's Power Spokesperson for Gyeonggi-do Provincial Council lamented

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 20, 2024 (Wednesday)
□ Host: Announcer Park Gui-bin
□ Starter: Lee Hye-won, Senior Spokesman for People's Power

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◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): It's wise self-governing life time. It's time to find out what the local council is doing to make our neighborhood a good place to live. Today, I will call Lee Hye-won, the chief spokesman for the People's Power of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council. Hello, Senator.

◇ Lee Hye-won, Senior Spokesman for People's Power (hereinafter Lee Hye-won): Hello.

◆Park Gwi-bin: Can you say hello to our listeners and residents first?

◇Lee Hye-won: Hello. I'm Lee Hye-won from Yangpyeong, a clean water, and I'm a Gyeonggi-do lawmaker. Nice to meet you.

◆Park Gui-bin: Yes, nice to meet you. The water is clear in Yangpyeong.

◇Lee Hye-won: Yes, it's a very clear water fault.

◆Park Gui-bin: You have Yangpyeong as your district. He is a first-term lawmaker of the 11th Gyeonggi-do Provincial Council, and I think he must have been very busy in the first half of the year, but it's the second half of the year and he's in charge of it. You're working as the chief spokesman for the People's Power, so please tell us your resolution.

◇ Lee Hye-won: It's an honor for me to be appointed as the chief spokesman for the People's Power of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council. As such, I feel a lot of responsibility. I think the chief spokesman is the mouth of the people's power in Gyeonggi Province. Therefore, we are playing the role of chief spokesperson with a focus on delivering the vision and activities of the people of Gyeonggi-do to the residents quickly and accurately. We will play a role in monitoring and checking the executive so that the Gyeonggi provincial government can operate efficiently and effectively.

◆Park Gui-bin: The administrative audit will be conducted until this week. However, looking at the article, he recently announced his position toward Governor Kim Dong-yeon from the Gyeonggi Provincial Council's People's Power. Senator, you are now working at the Strategy and Finance Committee, and the administrative affairs of the Strategy and Finance Committee were temporarily suspended. What happened?

◇Lee Hye-won: Governor Kim Dong-yeon held a press conference at the Gyeonggi Provincial Office on November 13th, when the entire standing committee of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council was conducting an administrative audit. At the same time, he told the president to step down. Governor Kim Dong-yeon's actions are really wrong because the governor of Gyeonggi-do Province does not pay attention to pending issues for Gyeonggi-do Province, but only conducts press conferences and focuses on central politics. I felt terrible to paint the political colors of Gyeonggi Province, which should be fair, transparent and neutral. Governor Kim said in a conference that he felt deeply about what would happen if the leader failed to solve the leadership crisis on his own, and that's the situation in Gyeonggi-do Province of funds. Even though distrust and conflict continue due to Governor Kim Dong-yeon's passing of the provincial council, he is smearing his face. The meeting was adjourned for a while due to a press conference held during a gossip at the Strategy and Finance Committee, but it was shorthanded after consultation and ended safely.

◆Park Gui-bin: An administrative audit is underway, but I don't think the atmosphere is good. The parliament is now even in the ruling and opposition parties. What did the Democrats say?

◇ Lee Hye-won: I don't know. It seems that the Democratic Party of Korea is not very different from the ruling and opposition parties. As for what's going on in Gyeonggi-do, I think it's wrong for the governor to talk about such political issues without hesitation, even though it's an important time for the provincial council to deal with administrative audits, ordinances, and budgets. No matter how much Governor Kim Dong-yeon shakes the provincial government, I would like to say that our Gyeonggi-do lawmakers are carrying out their duty of improving the Gyeonggi-do government. And I would like to tell the governor once again that the governor should take the lead in not infringing on the rights and interests of Gyeonggi-do residents. And especially on the 13th of that day, very important contents came and went from the balanced development office administrative audit at the Strategy and Finance Committee. Many problems were mentioned in the development marginalized areas in the northeast of Gyeonggi-do, and alternatives were also presented, and other standing committees also came and went with a lot of stories to develop the Gyeonggi provincial government. These contents were sucked in by Governor Kim Dong-yeon's press conference like a black hole. Our administrative audit is the day when the Gyeonggi Provincial Council officially checks the Gyeonggi Provincial Government. On such a day, I think it is necessary for the governor of Gyeonggi-do to focus on the Gyeonggi-do government in such a way that there is no more damage to our residents than any self-rearing.

◆Park Gui-bin: Have you talked to Governor Kim Dong-yeon since then?

◇Lee Hye-won: No, you didn't come. I've never had any conversations.

◆Park Gui-bin: You didn't make any demands or do that together.

◇ Lee Hye-won: There was no other comment. The executive department or the political affairs line have never contacted me.

◆Park Gui-bin: But you came back with a good feeling.

◇ Lee Hye-won: The ruling and opposition parties agreed that we should focus more on that part because we decided that we should play a role as Gyeonggi-do councilors, and because there were many concerns among Gyeonggi-do residents because there was a crippling administrative audit in the previous year.

◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. There may be different positions and different opinions, but in fact, what we do is for the people's livelihood, so I think it's right to do what we have to do. I hope it becomes a parliament that looks at people's livelihoods, and let's look at what you pointed out in the administrative audit this time. You pointed out that the number of local development bonds that the provincial residents did not receive back is 2.7 billion over five years. What's this about?

◇Lee Hye-won: I'm sure some of the residents have purchased local development bonds when buying a car or when they get a permit from the city and county. Now, according to the Gyeonggi Provincial Government Ordinance on the Establishment of the Regional Development Fund, when such bonds are purchased, they are now obligated to purchase regional development bonds, and there are some who sell them as soon as they buy them, but there are more cases where they do not. After five years, the bond expires and the amount must be returned to the bond holder, but if it does not go, there will be an expiration date of 10 years interest and 5 years. And after the extinctive prescription, profits disappear again to the funds of Gyeonggi-do. So, when the bond expires, Gyeonggi-do Province has to post a bond maturity announcement on its website and go to the bank directly to get the money back. How can we remember the bond maturity date for five years when we can't remember yesterday in reality? As a result, there are many cases where more people than you think can't find the bond amount until the expiration date of the bond has passed and forgets a little.

◆Park Gwi-bin: There are many cases where you forget and don't know, so you can't find it, right?

◇ Lee Hye-won: Yes. It's one of the cases I forgot to find. So, when I researched that scale, I researched it through the submitted data, and the total amount of 2.73 billion won over the past five years is considerably larger than expected, right?

◆Park Gwi-bin: You're right.

◇ Lee Hye-won: So I pointed out that if Gyeonggi-do only publishes it on the website, it's too difficult for the residents to access the website and check it in five years, so I thought it was a passive administration and the rights and interests of the residents were not guaranteed. So, to prevent this from happening in the future, we will send mails to bond buyers, get consent from those who write down their phone numbers, send text messages, and set a period of intensive promotion period regularly to monitor thoroughly so that there is no loss to the residents.

◆Park Gui-bin: We should. I think you can text me this several times, but this seems to be something that needs to be improved. He also pointed out the fund he used during his tenure as former Gyeonggi-do Governor Lee Jae-myung.

◇ Lee Hye-won: Yes.

◆Park Gui-bin: What is this about?

◇Lee Hye-won: There is now a regional development fund in Gyeonggi-do that has raised funds for SOC projects in 31 cities and counties. He pointed out that the fund is being misused as a pocket of money to achieve results for the governor. If you tell me in detail, you will probably remember the basic income of disasters during former Governor Lee Jae-myung's tenure. I once paid it to Gyeonggi residents through local currency. To quote Lee Jae-myung, the current chairman of the Democratic Party, at the time, he is not paying additional debts, but using the surplus funds he has collected. Many people are worried about whether they are doing it by debt, whether there is no financial problem in Gyeonggi-do, or whether they are burdened by future generations, but they said that you don't have to think so at all. But the story was all false. The reason why I'm saying that is because I didn't have enough money at the time, I financed about KRW 1.55443 trillion from the Regional Development Fund, which was saved for this SOC project, through general accounting. This isn't using the accumulated amount. It's a nameplate loan that pays back to this account with interest. So what happened to this 1.5 trillion won? Did Governor Lee Jae-myung pay back and finish his term?

◆Park Gui-bin: You mean it's left as a debt now. You pointed out the part that needs to be paid back in the future.

◇ Lee Hye-won: Governor Lee Jae-myung didn't have a chance to pay back in the future, right? Now, I have to pay back from the year 24 to this year. the repayment period for the loan So, we have to pay it back with the current taxes of our provincial residents. This year, we paid back 145.7 billion won with our provincial taxes. And from next year to 29, we have to pay back about 310 billion won each. Maybe if you add this interest, the amount will be higher. It is a little frustrating that Governor Lee Jae-myung is continuing to pass on the burden of future generations by lying to the provincial residents, and our Governor Kim Dong-yeon is also following this.

◆Park Gui-bin: You pointed out that part and this is actually about the fund used during the former Gyeonggi-do Governor Lee Jae-myung's tenure, so there may be another position, so if we can check this part again later, we will prepare some opportunities for the Democratic Party of Korea.

◇ Lee Hye-won: Governor Kim Dong-yeon is probably using the Regional Development Fund in the same position. That's why I pointed out that such a situation is not followed.

◆Park Gui-bin: Let me ask you this, too. Prosecutors yesterday indicted Lee Jae-myung without detention on charges of misappropriating 165.53 million won in Gyeonggi Province's budget, including corporate cars. So, when I was governor of Gyeonggi-do, I used official cars privately and used corporate cards for budget purposes. In fact, the police decided not to send the charges. The results of the investigation came out differently in the prosecution. How did you think about this?

◇Lee Hye-won: Anyway, the law investigated it and came to a conclusion about it. That conclusion led to the indictment on the useful charge. It is necessary to find out exactly what parts are clear, but I hope that these parts will not be abused as laboratories to realize the governor's personal political ambition for a single Gyeonggi-do resident.

◆Park Gwibin: I see.

◇ Lee Hye-won: I don't think there should be any use of taxpayers' money.

◆Park Gwibin: I see. Senator, Yangpyeong with clear water, let me briefly point out what kind of issue it is.

◇Lee Hye-won: Despite Yangpyeong, which has clear water, Yangpyeong-gun residents have endured long-term sacrifices because it is bound by regulations such as natural conservation areas, special arrangements, water supply protection areas, and military facility protection areas. As a result, there are many regional issues to be improved because there are some water problems from the capital, transportation problems, and medical services for cultural facilities are lacking. As you know well, the Seoul Yangpyeong Expressway project was a big issue in 2023, and the residents' desire for such a resumption of construction is also a big form. Currently, the Democratic Party of Korea has recently decided to significantly cut the related budget at the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure and Transport Committee, causing pain to the people of Yangpyeong-gun.

◆Park Gwibin: I see. I think it's time to say the last question and wrap it up. It's a must-ask question that we always ask lawmakers in Gyeonggi-do Province. A masterpiece of my life, a song that represents my life. What song do you have?

◇ Lee Hye-won: First of all, it's a song called "One Fine Day in October," which I used to celebrate my wedding with a wonderful companion.

◆Park Gui-bin: What does it mean to make you meet a wonderful companion?

◇ Lee Hye-won: I met my husband.

◆Park Gwibin: Did you meet him through this song?

◇Lee Hye-won: My husband was running a business in Cambodia, and I met him when I went out to get his hair done briefly.

◆Park Gui-bin: Was that October? What wonderful day was October?

◇ Lee Hye-won: It wasn't October. It's the same time that the groom came to see me again and got married.

◆Park Gui-bin: I see you had some really important life events with a wonderful day in October. On a wonderful day in October, we'll give you a song. Senator, thank you very much for your words today. Thank you.

◇Lee Hye-won: Yes, thank you. Thank you.

◆Park Gui-bin: I was Lee Hye-won, the chief spokesman for the People's Power of the Gyeonggi Provincial Council.