“Pride? I’m criticized”… Munhwa Economic Control Tower

[세종=이데일리 최훈길 이명철 원다연 기자] “It is true that the morale of employees of the Ministry of Strategy and Finance has fallen a lot. I am trying to boost morale.”

Hong Nam-ki, Deputy Prime Minister of the Economy and Minister of Strategy and Finance, said in a questionnaire to the government of the National Assembly on the 5th. An official from the Ministry of Science and Technology said, “The atmosphere is so bubbling that young officers want to take their hands off their work.” “I want to move to another ministry” and “I want to move out of the budget room”.

The Ministry of Knowledge Economy, where bright talents flocked to become a public official in charge of the future of the Republic of Korea, has been reduced to the government of Moon Jae-in. It is an analysis that this is due to the combination of excessive criticism from the political world, such as “is it the country of the Ministry of Information,” and the helpless response of the Ministry of Information.

Hong Nam-ki Deputy Prime Minister of Economy and Minister of Strategy and Finance. [사진=기획재정부]

According to E-Daily’s ‘Haengsi (Level 5 Public Loan) Probationary Officer Status in 2021,’ obtained through the Democratic Party Assembly Officer Lee Hae-sik on the 7th, none of the 1st to 5th probationary officers in general administration did not select the register. They were assigned to the National Tax Service (2), the Ministry of Employment and Labor, the National Rights Commission, and the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism (1 each). Resilience, called the’flower of action’, is also in a similar trend. Among the 1st to 5th ranks in financial position, only one trainee officer was assigned to the equipment department. Two secretaries were assigned to the Financial Services Commission, followed by one to the Fair Trade Commission and the National Tax Service. In the past, the unwritten rule that Haengsi chief and vice-suk had been going to the department of equipment was broken.

In addition to the top ranks in the act, the avoidance of equipment was remarkable in the general probationary officers. As a result of receiving requests for each ministry last month for trainees, the Ministry of Information and Communication was humiliated by the’under-capacity’ in finance. An official from the Ministry of Equipment said, “I didn’t know that even though the installation of equipment was reduced according to the emphasis on quality of life (Waraval), I didn’t know that I would be neglected so far.”

It is pointed out that it is not just because of the workforce, hard work, and personnel stagnation. In 2017, at the beginning of the Moon Jae-in administration’s inauguration, 8 out of 1-10 people, including senior and deputy financial officers at the time, supported the Ministry of Information.

Choi Jung-gyeong, former Vice Minister of the Ministry of Science and Technology and former Minister of Knowledge Economy, said, “The Minister of Finance is a very important position in national policy decisions. It was interpreted that this phenomenon was caused by the fact that the Ministry of Knowledge Economy fell into criticism of the political power.

Lee Geun-myeon, the first head of the Ministry of Personnel Innovation (special professor at Sungkyunkwan University) said, “As the administrative government was subordinated to political power, the reward of working as a public official was faded and even the pride of working as a public official was broken. “We need to create an environment that promotes this.”

[그래픽=이데일리 문승용 기자]

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