The Democratic Party of Korea repeatedly called for a government investigation, saying, “During the government audit of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, it was revealed that a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport official intentionally hid data containing the circumstances surrounding the review of the terminus change of the Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway.”
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport admitted in a government audit yesterday that it had been instructed to delete some of the data released in July to resolve suspicions about the Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway.
The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport released the ‘Feasibility Study Task Plan’ prepared by Kyungdong Engineering, a service provider at the time, in April of last year. Pages 23 to 26, which included information about considering changing the location of the end point, were missing from this document.
At the time, the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport stated that “the practitioner accidentally omitted it,” and re-posted the task performance plan file with the missing information added on its website.
However, Kim Soo-hyeon, managing director of Kyungdong Engineering, who appeared as a witness at the government audit on the 12th, said regarding the omission of contents from the plan, “We decided that it was not appropriate and modified and deleted it when it was published on the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport website,” and did not know who judged it to be inappropriate. There was no clear answer to this question.
In the end, during the National Assembly audit yesterday, Lee Yong-wook, Director of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport’s Road Bureau, responded to Democratic Party lawmaker Park Sang-hyuk’s question about who deleted page 4 of the report by saying, “It was ordered by the working-level officials in charge (of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport).”
In response to this, Park Seong-joon, spokesperson for the Democratic Party, said, “If the change in destination was reasonable and honorable, there is no reason to hide this fact.” He added, “The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport and Minister Won Hee-ryong misled public opinion by concealing and manipulating data while criticizing the opposition party’s claims as political instigation.” “He must take full responsibility,” he criticized.
2023-10-28 08:45:54
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