[아침신문솎아보기] Criticism of the people’s commitment to “lost conservative”

With the by-election of the mayors of Seoul and Busan approaching two and a half months ahead, two columns criticizing the conservative opposition appeared in the conservative newspaper on the morning of the 25th. The opposition is in an advantageous phase in this election, which is held at the expense of the head of a local government belonging to the ruling party, but if you look inside it, there is no grain and it does not impress the citizens. It is evaluated that the current political unification discussion and criticism of the current government are insufficient.

The situation was revealed by the police covering the assault case of a taxi driver by Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu. It is highly likely that it will act as a braking case in an atmosphere of increasing police authority over the adjustment of the prosecutor’s right to investigate. In the morning on this day, criticism against the police poured out.

The government is pushing ahead with measures to expand the scope of the legal’family’. Previously, the family only recognized marriage and blood ties, but the ‘4th Basic Healthy Families Plan’ aimed at legally acknowledging those living like family members such as unmarried domestic partners, friends, elderly couples, and share houses and eliminating discrimination in various systems. It is news that the Ministry of Gender Equality and Family is promoting it.

A year has passed since the fight against Corona 19. Many changes have occurred in the workplace as well, which is a global phenomenon. At the same time, the increase in caring labor and telecommuting has been discussed in earnest, and the polarization of jobs has also intensified due to coronavirus. Amid claims that more fundamental changes are needed, voices are growing, calling for a reduction in working hours and democratization of the workplace, such as a four-day week system.

Joseon “Stay in place for 10 years” Central “Repair for failure”

Among the re-elections in April, the Seoul Mayor’s election is definitely drawing attention. Three people, including Ahn Cheol-soo, former Mayor of Seoul City, and former National Assemblyman Na Gyeong-won, received more attention than the passport candidate, but a bitter voice about the opposition came out in the morning on the 25th.

Professor Kang Won-taek of Seoul National University said in a column from the Chosun Ilbo, “New characters do not fall from the sky”. “Looking at the faces of the major candidates running for the mayoral election in Seoul, I realized that Korean politics had remained there for the past 10 years.” Oh Se-hoon, Na Gyeong-won, Ahn Chul-soo, and Park Young-seon all held the election for the mayor of Seoul 10 years ago, but they are also considered strong candidates in this election. In the meantime, Kang-san has changed, but the character is in doubt.”

Professor Kang said, “No matter how high the negative evaluation of the Moon Jae-in administration is, the anticipation for the opposition party is not high.” Shall we find a person outside the party? He pointed out that the people’s strength over the past decade has not been able to develop people.” He said, “The elections continued to look at the elections in front of them and then internally’share’ the nominations or take outside people as a temporary measure.”

The People’s Power adopted 100% public opinion polls as the method of this election. Professor Kang said, “As we have seen so far, public opinion polls are greatly affected by popularity and popularity. It is a way that is much more advantageous to known characters than new faces.” He pointed out, “No matter what procedure you go through until the final selection process, under this method, there is bound to be a limit for new characters to imprint their capabilities and vision to the public.”

He criticized the power of the people by citing the cases of former President Kim Dae-jung, who cried out for the general election in 2000 and’young blood transfusion’, and former President Roh Moo-hyun during the 2004 Uri Party storm. In the end, he wrote, “The power of the people, whose political imagination for the future was buried today, is pathetic.”

In fact, criticism of’there is no message’ about the competition of three candidates Ahn Cheol-soo, Oh Se-hoon and Na Gyeong-won is coming out everywhere. Even politically-engineered electoral districts without alternatives to improve the lives of Seoul citizens, especially Ahn and the people’s strength candidate, are flooded with the story of unification. Accordingly, according to the Dong-A Ilbo on the 22nd, a member of the Power of the People said, “The opposition parties fight for unification of candidates, and the problem is serious due to the fatigue of the voters.”

On the 25th, an article related to the unification of opposition rights came out. Kyunghyang Shinmun said, “There are observations that the unification of the Seoul mayoral opposition candidate’An·O·Na’ is Ona, An Ona” and “if it flows in the form of a’chicken game’, the unification may be broken. “There is an observation that it can lead to the result of depriving the votes of the opposition by increasing the fatigue of the people watching the process.”

Although the media is obligated to bring out the actual messages of the three candidates rather than the issue of unification of candidates, it is possible to evaluate that the message to be illuminated by the media is insufficient as the original candidates only had political meaning of the pre-election stage.

In the JoongAng Ilbo, editorial writer Jang Se-jeong said in a column titled “Will the rewards come back to life by regaining the seat of the mayor of Seoul?” “Conservatives are also struggling to come up with a practical alternative to solve the problem of people’s livelihood,” and “the damage will be passed on to the people intact.” He criticized the power of the late people.

Editorial Writer Jang said, “Jeong-go, who has the power, will continue to wander through identity confusion, not to suggest alternatives, although the progress will continue to wander through identity confusion, screaming for long-term power. If recaptures the market position in the market, will the conservatives rise and the Republic of Korea regain its balance? “If conservatives don’t innovate and reform themselves from the ground up, it’s impossible.” He used expressions such as’broken conservatives’ and’lost conservatives’ and insisted on’intermediate reforms’ and’community liberalism’.

Covering Vice Minister Yong-gu Lee, criticizing police distrust

It was revealed late on the 24th that Vice Minister Lee Yong-gu assaulted a taxi driver on November 6 last year, and two days later, he visited the taxi driver and asked for a settlement money to delete the black box video containing the assault scene. The police confirmed the video of the scene of the assault on the taxi driver, but the police closed the internal affairs without filing this vice minister, saying that they would choose to not see it. On the 20th, the chief of police officer Seocho, who was in charge of the case, died as the head of the investigation department at the Seoul Metropolitan Government.

The Chosun Ilbo raised three questions regarding this case. First, the investigator in charge of the case in Seocho-seo investigated the taxi driver twice and treated the case as a simple assault, not assault under the Special Offer Act (Act on Specific Crime Weighted Penalties), and terminated the internal investigation. to be.

The second is whether the head of the police knew about this. When looking at the data received by the National Police Agency, Lee Soo-jin, a member of the National Police Agency, said that he gave his attorney (attorney at the time) business card to the police officer who received the 112 report. This vice minister was the Ministry of Justice, who played a role in coordinating the prosecutor’s right from 2017 to April last year. I worked as the head of the legal office. The police are in the position that the incident has not been reported to the upper line.

Third, there is a suspicion that the police did not take advantage of Lee’s convenience. As the Chosun Ilbo reported this incident, the police claimed that there is “no black box video.” The investigator in charge wrote the taxi driver’s non-penalty form instead. In addition, Seo Cho-seo notified the result to Vice Minister Lee as he closed the case, but there is no stipulation that the result should be notified according to the police internal investigation rule. However, when the prosecutors re-investigate, it was revealed that the video of the assault exists.

The Kyunghyang Shinmun reported from the editorial “The police covered with the assault of a taxi driver Lee Yong-gu, will you gain citizen trust?” to “The police’s authority to investigate has increased from January 1 of this year due to the adjustment of the prosecutor’s right to investigate. In the case of this vice-minister’s case, the police have the primary authority to terminate the investigation in the future, but if the case is covered in this way, it is not easy to perform post-mortem verification and eventually the daily lives of the citizens will be threatened.”

The Kyunghyang Shinmun also pointed out the prosecution. This is because it is known that the 5th Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office investigating this case has already secured a black box video. The video shows Vice Minister Lee grabbing the neck of a taxi driver.

The newspaper pointed out the controversial case of the recent controversial child abuse death in Yangcheon (Jeong In-i case) and insolvency investigation of the child abuse case in the Nam-gu national and public daycare center in Ulsan. “If the investigation by the police in this case is less than the investigation by the prosecution “The morality of the police and the ability to handle cases are critically questioned.”

Leisure Ministry expands to various forms of’legal family’

The Chosun Ilbo announced a plan to increase the legal’family’ range promoted by the Ministry of Leisure and Leisure in an article titled “Promoting Recognition of Couples Living Together as Families” in the social aspect. To this end, amendments to higher laws such as the Civil Act and the Framework Act on Healthy Families and social agreement are needed.

Article 779 of the current Civil Code stipulates the scope of the family as’spouse, lineal blood relatives, siblings’ and’spouses of immediate blood relatives who share a living, immediate blood relatives of spouses, and siblings of spouses’. The Ministry of Leisure and Tourism plans to review the removal of the provision so as not to limit the legal family concept, the newspaper said. Last year, when the Ministry of Leisure and Home Affairs surveyed 1,500 people, 69.7% answered, “Even if you are not married, you can become a family if you live together and share your livelihood.”

Currently, parents are required to report birth under the Family Relations Registration Act. However, there are children who have not been registered for birth because their parents do not want to inform them of the birth. Accordingly, the introduction of a’birth notification system’, in which medical institutions immediately notify the state of birth, will be promoted.

In addition, the current consent for surgery can only be signed by direct blood relatives or spouses who are obligated to support under the civil law, and this will also be improved to enable common-law relationships or domestic partners. The Chosun Ilbo also cited overseas cases. In France, with only a few documents, it is possible to sign a contract called’Pax (Civil Solidarity Agreement)’, but inheritance between domestic partners is possible without a marriage registration.

Labor site turned into corona, 4 days a week needs to be introduced

The Hankyoreh reported on the changes in the working environment around the world under the theme of’One Year Fighting Corona 19′. First of all, job anxiety grew, and there were many people who became more stressed by changes in work and organization. Another big change is the increase in telecommuting. The World Economic Forum pointed out that “the balance between work and life is breaking,” and that “a great impact is being applied to everyday life as well as physical and mental health.”

As it is predicted that the changes in the past year will continue after the coronavirus, some argue that a shift to the idea of ​​working less and using less at all is necessary.

According to the Hankyoreh, Kate Soffer, an emeritus professor at London’s Macropolitan University, said, “Excessive labor brings rewards and damages both mental and physical health.” “You have to get used to reducing labor and there is an atmosphere that responds to it.” did. Despite the coronavirus, countries are using enormous economic stimulus measures, but it is a diagnosis that a fundamental solution is difficult due to the economic view based on growth.

In addition, the Hankyoreh said, “Experts point out that there is a need for active introduction of the four-day labor system, which has only been debated so far, to strengthen protection for non-regular workers and the unemployed, and to improve labor practices.”

Professor Mark Banks of Grassgow University, UK, said, “There are numerous studies that show that reducing working hours across the industry brings a lot of socio-cultural benefits without compromising efficiency and productivity.” The newspaper reported that it urged a change of ideas, saying, “It is true that people will also retreat.”

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