The Ministry of Health and Welfare announced that the increase in the number of dermatology residents at the National Medical Center last year has nothing to do with Cho Min, the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kook, and the JoongAng Ilbo report, which raised suspicion that the increase was for Jo, is completely different. The National Medical Center announced a legal response against the JoongAng Ilbo. This case goes beyond a simple suspicion and misinformation controversy, and raises concerns over how far we should view the report on Mr. Cho as a’public interest’.
On the 28th, the JoongAng Ilbo said, “It was confirmed that Jo Min applied for an internship at the National Medical Center and even completed an interview.” “In and outside the hospital, the acceptance of Mr. Cho is a default,” said multiple hospital officials. He then reported, “As the head of the National Medical Center is known as an aide to President Moon Jae-in, suspicions have been raised that the breath of the Ministry of Welfare has worked over Mr. Cho’s intern support.” The newspaper also reported, “There are suspicions about the background that the Ministry of Welfare increased the number of dermatology residents at the National Medical Center this year from one to two.” “The Ministry of Health and Welfare increased the total number of residents last year by four, and there are many back words.” did.
Reporter Ahn Hye-ri, who wrote the article, raised a suspicion on the same day in a column titled’A number of Jomin’s gods’, saying, “Isn’t it a plan to create a Jomin dermatologist to increase the number of people in the welfare department?”
The Ministry of Health and Welfare immediately released explanatory data and added the number of “separate quotas” in the article to achieve policy objectives to public medical institutions including private institutions such as regional emergency/trauma/cardiovascular disease centers and pediatric emergency medical centers. It is a’policy quota’ that is assigned as a’policy quota’, and the policy quota is allocated only for the current year and is not maintained continuously, and is determined anew every year.” “Even if he passes the internship, he has to go through intern training for one year, and “The number of dermatology residents allocated this year is not subject to any special assignments, so there is no benefit from the policy allocation of quotas regardless of Cho Min’s major selection.”
In particular, regarding the article titled, “There has never been an increase in the number of quotas, and the increase in dermatology, a popular subject unrelated to public health, is beyond the usual precedent.” “In 2018, additional dermatology quotas were assigned to the National Medical Center.” “The report that the dermatologist quota was allocated for public medical treatment such as trauma, burns, and skin disease treatment, which is outside the usual precedent, is different from the fact.” He said, “We are very sorry for reporting something completely different from the facts, and we are going to request information maps for information that is different from the facts.”
The National Medical Center also immediately objected, saying, “Resident recruitment was completed in November 2020 last year, and the selection was completed on December 18 after the recruitment announcement on November 26, and it is completely irrelevant whether a specific individual applies for an internship at the National Medical Center in January of this year. . There is no designation of a major for intern recruitment,” he refuted. In addition, “The number of interns at the National Medical Center was 32-31-30-29-28-29 from 2015 to this year, an increase of one this year from last year, but that is only a recovery from the previous number.” The report that ties Ji Won and the change in the number of majors in the National Medical Center is a speculation that is not true at all.”
The National Medical Center also stated that 15% of the interview results were reflected in the “If you consider the general interview score, it is difficult to have a big impact on your satisfaction, and according to the criteria for the appointment test of your major, “The JoongAng Ilbo and Ahn Hye-ri, who inflict serious harm to the honor of the individual heads of the National Medical Center, with malicious reports based on fiction and speculation in the market and politically processed provocative titles.” Reporters will be held strictly for civil and criminal liability.”
The JoongAng Ilbo report is interpreted as the purpose of monitoring the possibility of preferential treatment by continuing to follow the’employment process’ of Mr. Cho on the premise that Cho Min is an “unauthorized admissions accomplice” using the status and power of his parents and his obtaining a doctor’s license is unfair. can do. Regarding such reports, however, a lawyer who is bright in media law points out that “if former Minister Cho Kuk used his power privately, it would be a problem, but it is a different problem to break it and Cho Min’s private life.”
Some compare Jo Min with Choi Seo-won (Choi Soon-sil)’s daughter, Jeong Yu-ra, and emphasize the legitimacy of the report. However, in the case of Jung Yu-ra, when it was revealed that Ewha Womans University was illegally admitted, Ewha Womans University immediately decided to expel or cancel admission, and Jeong himself said, “It is natural to cancel admission.” Although he was convicted of acknowledging various illegal acts such as forgery of awards, the appeal is still underway, and the Pusan National University Graduate School of Medicine has delayed deciding whether to cancel admission. It is the reason why it seems that the issue of legal disputes in the future is how far to see it as a’rightful concern of the public’ over the reporting of Jo Min’s private employment activities, which are also ambiguous even to be classified as public figures.
In retrospect, excessive coverage of Cho Min is fading even the rational criticism surrounding former Minister Cho Kook and his family. Earlier, on August 28 of last year, the Chosun Ilbo reported an article titled’Jomin and Severance Hospital Dermatology Clinic unilaterally, “I’m my motherland daughter, I want to intern here after the doctor’s examination”, and the next day,’I’ll fix it right.’ This article was written without checking the relevant facts from Professor A, who said that he or Mr. Jo or Mr. Jo met,” he said. “I deeply apologize to Mr. Jo and the people at Yonsei University Medical Center who were damaged by the article.” Former Minister Cho filed a criminal complaint against two reporters of the Chosun Ilbo, the director of the social affairs department and the editor-in-chief for defamation. In November of last year, the police sent a TV Chosun reporter who went into the building of Cho Min’s residence and pressed the doorbell to report on it to the prosecution with opinions of prosecution on charges such as invading the common housing.
And the Chosun Ilbo on the 27th ‘[단독] Fatherland’s daughter saw an intern interview at the National Medical Center’, and on the 29th, ‘[속보] The daughter of former Attorney General Cho Kook, the National Medical Center intern failed. Is it possible for Jo Min to get a job in the reality that even interviews are “alone reporting”? I’m not worried about Cho’s employment. Is the fact that the former secretary’s daughter’s intern interview and dropout is a’public concern’ Is Jo Min a public figure? Is Jomin a criminal? How far can an individual’s privacy be disclosed because of power monitoring? This is a point of concern that the media should not miss.
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