Candidate Han Jeong-ae, Minister of Environment, is taking an oath at a personnel hearing held at the Environmental Labor Committee of the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the morning of the 20th. Joint coverage photo
Scene 1. “The closure of the trails in Baekdu-daegan seems to be an excessive measure that is difficult to find abroad, and the legal basis is not clear. It is necessary to seek various directions by introducing a reservation system or mountain guide system.” At the National Assembly’s personnel hearing for the candidate Han Jeong-ae, the Minister of Environment, held on the 20th, Democratic Party lawmaker Lim Jong-sung asked a candidate and said: Lim’s regional district is Gwangju, Gyeonggi, which is far from Baekdudaegan. However, Lee seems to love climbing. On his blog, there are several photos taken side by side with the executive director of the Human Foundation, Uhm Hong-gil, a mountaineer. On November 24, last year, a meeting was held with mountaineers related to the opening of the Marugeum between Baekdudaegan. Scene 2. “Thirty years have passed since Daecheong Lake became a water source protected area. Water purification technology has been developed so far, and irrational and unnecessary regulations must be eliminated.” Independent lawmaker Park Deok-heum, who was known as a member of the National Assembly’s Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, and Transport, demanded the ease of environmental regulations. Rep. Park asked this question twice in the morning and in the afternoon. I felt’sincerity’. Environment is one of the few areas where the word’protection’ rather than’use’ fits. The Ministry of Environment is a government ministry representing nature that cannot participate in the human decision-making process, and is required to play a role in coordinating and resolving conflicts between those who want to use nature and those who want to represent nature. The constitutional obligation of members of the National Assembly at the hearing of candidates for the Minister of Environment, the duty of national interests, will be to verify whether the candidate has the ability to reconcile social conflicts well and to represent a speechless nature based on rational thinking. Was the only question to verify the candidates for the Minister of Environment to overcome the’climate crisis era’, which is remembered for the longest rainy season, unusual cold waves and heavy snow? At least, it should have taken the form of questioning the judgment on this matter from an objective standpoint, not from delivering a complaint. Even if it is determined that the resolution of civil complaints is a really important environmental issue, it is not suitable for the hearings to verify the State Council members. Questions out of time and place are bound to spread to the qualifications of the members of the National Assembly Environment and Labor Committee.
Looking at the hearing of the new minister, which was a big feast of civil petitions, there was a frivolous spectator review saying, “It’s like a club,” “It’s not a hearing of the State Council, but just a meeting of the National Assembly. There was high expectation that the activities of the Ministry of Environment, which are powerless ministries, would be strengthened if the third heavy politician became a minister. However, there are voices of concern that the complaints of members of the National Assembly are passed through the minister at environmental organizations that have watched the hearing. Right after the hearing was over, members of the ruling and opposition parties of Hwannowi adopted a candidate’s progress report on personnel hearing. An unexpected obstacle has arisen in the’flower road’ that the new minister must go. By Choi Woo-ri, staff reporter [email protected]