President Yoon Seok-yeol speaks at the ASEAN-Korea Summit held at the Jakarta Convention Center (JCC) in Indonesia on the 6th (local time). Jakarta/AP Yonhap News
The Office of the President directly signed a private contract with a company that is not registered in the ‘Nara Market’, where competitive bidding is held for various projects ordered by the government and public institutions, and produced a video promoting the safety of contaminated water from the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant in Japan. As it turns out, controversy is expected. As a result of the Hankyoreh’s coverage on the 6th, it was confirmed that it was the advertising film and video production company K that produced the video ‘Truth of contaminated water in Fukushima told by top experts in Korea’ (The truth of polluted water), with a budget of 38 million won by the Office of the President. . Company ㅋ, which was only introduced as a ‘small and medium-sized business established on July 12, 2018’ on the recruitment company’s site, did not operate a separate website, so its past performance was not properly known. The Public Procurement Service recently announced that “K is a company that is not registered in the Nara Marketplace, the national comprehensive electronic procurement system,” in response to an inquiry from the office of the Democratic Party of Korea along with Wi Sung-gon. Doubts are growing over how a virtually unknown company that is unable to participate in competitive bidding by public institutions such as the government that utilizes the system because it is not registered on the Nara Marketplace entered into a private contract with the President’s Office.
A video of ‘The truth about contaminated water in Fukushima told by top experts in Korea’ (4 minutes and 25 seconds) uploaded on the official YouTube channel of the ‘Government of the Republic of Korea’ on July 7th. Youtube capture
This 4-minute and 25-minute video contains content to the effect that “contaminated water in Fukushima is not dangerous,” and after the video was released, criticism was raised that the President’s office “advocates the discharge of contaminated water on behalf of the Japanese government.” Currently, all contents of the contract with the President’s Office related to the production of the truth video of the contaminated water are confidential. When asked by the Hankyoreh about the history of the contract with the company, the President’s Office simply said, “The relevant contract was executed through legal procedures in accordance with relevant laws such as the National Contract Act.” He added, “Please understand that it is difficult to disclose specific contract details due to reasons such as corporate, group, and individual management and trade secrets, and previous governments have kept them private for reasons such as security management in the presidential office.” The representative of the company also did not respond to the Hankyoreh’s repeated phone calls and text messages. It is pointed out that it is a violation of regulations for the President’s Office to make a contract related to the production of a video that has been released to the public privately. The Enforcement Decree of the State Contract Act (Article 92-2) stipulates that government contract-related matters only in exceptional cases, such as ‘in cases where it is necessary to conduct secret activities of state agencies, such as operational troop movement, national security, national defense plans, and intelligence activities’. This is because the information is kept private. Rep. Wie Seong-gon said, “It seems necessary to further confirm how the contract was conducted with a company whose performance has not been properly disclosed.” Criticized. Reporter Lee Ju-bin yes@hani.co.kr Reporter Mi-na Kim mina@hani.co.kr
2023-09-06 11:41:45
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