Candidate Han Jeong-ae, Minister of Environment, answers the question of a member of parliament at a personnel hearing held at the Environmental Labor Committee of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 20th. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Candidate Han Jeong-ae, Minister of Environment, said, “If necessary, we will conduct additional experiments on the problem components” in response to the recent court ruling that a company related to humidifier disinfectants was acquitted.
One candidate responded to the question of Democratic Party Rep. Roh Woong-rae at a personnel hearing held at the National Assembly on the 20th, “Isn’t it a problem that the Ministry of Environment initially granted approval for the chemical substance?”
On the 12th, the court said to former executives of SK Chemicals and Aekyung Industries, who were handed over to trial after being implicated in the humidifier disinfectant crisis on the 12th, “A humidifier disinfectant containing CMIT (chloromethyl isothiazolinone) and MIT (methyl isothiazolinone) components is used for lung disease. It is difficult to say that it has been proven to cause asthma or asthma.”
Regarding this, one candidate said, “I respect the court’s decision, but it is very heartbreaking from the victim’s point of view.”
He continued, “I will do all the measures the Ministry of Environment can do,” he said. “If additional experiments are needed, and taking into account the opinions of the academic community, I will do my best so that different results can come out at the appeal hearing.”
“The strongest power is consensus” on the criticism of’the four major rivers lukewarm’
On the morning of the 20th, a personnel hearing for candidate Han Jeong-ae is being held at the Environmental Labor Committee of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul. 2021.1.20 Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Regarding the criticism that the Ministry of Environment’s treatment of the four major rivers is lukewarm, he said, “The strongest power comes from agreement.” Earlier, the Presidential Commission on National Water Management concluded on the 18th that it would dismantle Sejongbo and Juksanbo and part of Gongjubo, among the five bridges along the Geumgang and Youngsan Rivers.
One candidate said, “There were numerous conflicts in the process of progressing through the four major rivers, and overcoming the conflict, the four major rivers are standing now,” said one candidate. “By the way, as we proceed through the Geum and Yeongsan rivers, we cannot repeat the conflict method at that time. There was not.” He said, “As we embrace it in an integrated way (as we promote it), it will only be a little later than we thought.”
Members of the Power of the People intensively inquired about the blacklist allegations raised at the time of former Environment Minister Kim Eun-kyung. Earlier, the prosecution claimed that “the plan by former Minister Kim and others to submit collective resignation by public agency executives was to achieve an unjust purpose of hiring successors,” and pleaded with former Minister Kim for five years in prison.
Rep. Lim Ija, a secretary of the opposition party of Hwannowi, criticized, “Is it consistent with the consequential definition to ask for a lump sum resignation regardless of the remaining term of office or performance in order to create seats recommended by the Blue House and the Minister of Environment?”
In response, one candidate said, “I am sorry that the State Council member recommended by our party has reached a situation where it is socially controversial and has entered legal proceedings, and I think it shouldn’t be.” “If I am appointed, I will work according to common sense. I emphasized.
The power of the people “The 1st defeat of the question of Congressman Beomgye Park”
Independent Assemblyman Park Deok-heum (center) is having a conversation with Kim Seong-won (left) and Kim Woong, a member of the People’s Strength, at a personnel hearing for candidate Han Jeong-ae, Minister of Environment, held at the Environmental Labor Committee of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 20th. Reporter Oh Jong-taek
Opposition lawmakers made sharp inquiries while discussing the blacklist case of the Ministry of Environment, but they also praised one candidate’s morality.
Rep. Lim Ja-in, the power of the people, said, “I think President Moon Jae-in is the best person ever to greet him. It seems that it has been rare these days to greet the opposition parties like this.”
Rep. Kim Seong-won also said, “If the Moon Jae-in administration nominates a candidate like Han Jeong-ae as a candidate for the minister, it is unlikely that any flaws or morality will come out.” Pointed out.
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