[아침신문 솎아보기] Kim Eun-kyung is arrested for the first page of the newspaper.

On the 9th, former Environment Minister Kim Eun-kyung, who had been tried for urging the resignation of existing executives in an attempt to seat the current government personnel in the Ministry of Environment and affiliated public institutions, was arrested in court on the 9th. Section 25-1 of the Seoul Central District Court’s criminal agreement (Kim Seon-hee, Lim Jeong-yeop, and Kwon Seong-su), the first trial court, sentenced former Environment Minister Kim Eun-gyeong to two years and six months in prison and imprisoned. Former Blue House Balance Personnel Secretary Shin Mi-sook, who was tried with him, was sentenced to 1 year and 6 months in prison and 3 years probation. It has been two years since the revelation of former investigator Kim Tae-woo, who was a former Blue House Special Inspectorate in 2018.

The court considered the allegations that former Minister Kim ordered the resignation of existing executives and applied targeted audits and pressure to the standing audit of the Korea Environment Corporation, who refused to do so. The Blue House and the Ministry of Environment appointed specific personnel as executives of public institutions and recognized the fact that the Ministry of Environment provided support. Former Minister Kim said that encouraging resignation and supporting nominees were customary, and that there were no targeted audits or retaliatory greetings. However, the judge pointed out, “Even if there is the same behavior in the previous government, it is clearly a violation of the law and the harm is serious and must be overcome. The defendant does not acknowledge the responsibility and passes all responsibility to the public officials who assisted him.”

The case involving former Minister Kim was called the’Ministry of Environment blacklist’. It means that it is a case of’taking out’ a specific person. Most of the major general daily newspapers published on the morning of the 10th covered the news of former Minister Kim’s court arrest on the front page.

Kyunghyang Shinmun: Former Minister Kim Eun-gyeong of’Ministry of Environment blacklist’ imprisonment for two years and six months for first trial
Kookmin Ilbo:’Ministry of Environment blacklist’, the first legal arrest of Minister Moon
Seoul Newspaper: Former Minister Kim Eun-gyeong’blacklisted by the Ministry of Environment’ court arrested
Segye Ilbo: Kim Eun-kyung, first legally arrested as Minister of Culture
Chosun Ilbo: It was’checklist’ and then’blacklist’
JoongAng Ilbo: Kim Eun-kyung, Minister Moon’s first court arrest
Hankyoreh: Former Environment Minister Kim Eun-gyeong is guilty of’taking out’ an affiliated officer under court
The Hankook Ilbo:’Ministry of Environment Blacklist’ is the first arrested by the Moon government minister

The Kyunghyang Shinmun said in an editorial (convicted by the’Ministry of Environment blacklist’, an order to end illegal parachute practices), “The practice in which political parties that hold the government control offices like spoils is said to be an idiot. In the meantime, whenever the regime changed, the paratroopers were constantly competing. This ruling puts a brake on excessive and illegal practices,” he said. “It is natural for the President, who has personnel rights in public institutions, to discuss personnel matters with the minister concerned, but there should not be any violations. He pointed out that the redemption should be done legally.”

The Hankook Ilbo editorial (convicted by the Ministry of Environment’s blacklist not to share the government’s greetings) said, “The Moon Jae-in administration criticized the cultural blacklist as a condemnation and handed over related documents to the prosecutors to actively help the investigation. Should be. Former Minister Kim thanked those who refused to submit his resignation and even pushed for re-competition when a person recommended by the Blue House was rejected. “As a naked sharer and a member of the State Council, the loyalty who embarrassedly ignores laws and procedures. “Behavior.” However, he pointed out the meaning that “the fact that this power-type corruption was often revealed through retaliatory investigations after the regime change was taken from the current regime to the judicial process is a further step in our society.”

Among the major daily newspapers, the Hankyoreh did not use the expression’blacklist’. In the article on the first page, the expression “convicted of’taking out’ of the affiliated officers’ was used in the title, and in the following article on the sixth page, the expression “thanks for the target when he refused to submit his resignation”. In the article, it was pointed out that the former prosecution investigator Kim Tae-woo revealed that the document “related trends such as the resignation of executives under the Ministry of Environment” was reported by the Blue House, but this was not called the “blacklist” commonly referred to. The only passage in which the expression’blacklist’ is included is private (Sil Hyung Kim Eun-kyung, who made a look at the’personnel practices of public institutions’). Drove away”.

In the case of the Chosun Ilbo, it was suspicious that it was necessary to investigate whether the line in charge of personnel at the time, such as Cho Hyun-ok, former head of personnel, and former head of Jokook Min Jeong, had to be investigated. “The court’forced collective resignation, serious harm’… It is an article titled “Cho Hyun-ok and the Fatherland Intervention Should Be Determined”. The newspaper said, “In the politics and legal circles, former Minister Kim is raising doubts about whether this can be done only with rapport with former secretary Shin.” “The former Minister of Justice Cho Kook, who directed the special supervisory group that Mr. Kim designated as the subject of the Blue House blacklist, was said.

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