Regarding the media today’s report that Samsung’worked’ for public opinion’work’ so that former judge Kang Il-won, one of the Samsung Compliance Committee’s professional hearing committee members, positively evaluates, Samsung said, “The media Today article and criticism of some civic groups are different from the facts. It doesn’t match common sense.”
On the 21st, Samsung said, “I would like to tell you about the report on the report of a professional judge on the activities of the Samsung Compliance Committee on the 19th and 20th of the Media Today. Media Today, there is a suspicion that Samsung has informed the media about the facts and other contents related to the report of the professional judges to form favorable public opinion, and some civic groups also reported that they criticized Samsung.” After writing, “This is completely different from the facts and It doesn’t match.”
On the 7th, three professional judges (Former Constitutional Court Judge Kang Il-won, accountant Hong Soon-tak, and lawyer Kim Kyung-soo) announced the evaluation results of the Samsung Compliance Committee. Three expert judges announced the results of the inspection based on 18’evaluation items’. These 18 evaluation items are evaluation criteria determined by the Ministry of Justice by combining the complementary opinions of the special prosecutors and lawyers.
However, as a result of the media today’s interview, the 18 evaluation criteria in the “reference materials” that Samsung gave to reporters from the Ministry of Industry are different from the 18 “evaluation items” that are the actual evaluation criteria. In the 84-page report of the expert judges, the criteria in the’Evaluation by Inspection Items’ are the evaluation items, but the positive stories in the’Conclusion’ are’fabricated’ as if they were evaluation items, and’reference materials’ were provided to reporters of the Ministry of Industry. did.
Even though there are ’18 evaluation items’, the stories in the’conclusion’ section were reported as if they were’evaluation items’. The ’18 evaluation items’ in the’Reference Materials’ created by Samsung are a line of the conclusion of the report of the Expert Judge. It was made ‘togap’ as if it were an objective evaluation item.
First, Samsung said, “In Media Today, member Kang Il-won presented the results of its own analysis, saying, among 18 evaluation items, ▲ 9 insufficient ▲ 7 somewhat insufficient ▲ 1 no opinion ▲ 1 positive. However, this is an incorrect analysis of the contents of the final report of the expert judges disclosed to the general public according to the court decision on the 18th, and it does not fit the whole purpose.”
However, on the 21st of the Seoul High Court Criminal Division 1 (Presiding Judge Jung Joon-young), at the trial of Lee Vice President, Park Young-soo’s special prosecutor’s team (special prosecutor) announced the’Summary of the inspection results for each member of the final’check items’. Looking at the data, former judge Kang Il-won analyzed that 16 out of 18 items were evaluated as’negative’. Among the 18’evaluation items,’ the special prosecutor explained that the item that the former judge reliably evaluated as’positive’ was “only one of the’possibility of preventing and monitoring illegal acts by top management of affiliates’ compliance officers’.”
Second, Samsung said, “Public opinion can never be manipulated.” “The successive reports related to the report of the expert panel were analyzed and reported separately by the Kyunghyang Shinmun and the Hankyoreh Newspaper on the 16th. Since then, many other media have been covering these articles through various channels, including our company, to confirm the facts of these articles, and we have sincerely explained the facts to the extent possible.” He explained, “At the time, the final report was delivered to the company to ask for opinions on whether or not to disclose it to the public.”
Samsung’s clarification is that it was only explained through’reference materials’ after receiving a request for confirmation of facts from other media to confirm the reports of the Kyunghyang Shinmun and Hankyoreh. He also emphasized that it reviewed the final report of the Compliance Committee. It is a nuance that there was a problem with the Kyunghyang Shinmun and the Hankyoreh’s reports, and it is close to the argument that they only responded to the coverage of other media to confirm this.
However, on the 18th, Samsung Electronics Managing Director Yoon Jong-deok told Media Today, “We did not have the original report at the time (last 16th). The Kyunghyang Shinmun and Hankyoreh must have existed. “There is no such thing as’Reference Materials’ that we wrote first and then spread it. To emphasize that they did not intervene in public opinion, they did not even have a final report (original), and they emphasized it, but they changed the word that it was in the situation where the report was delivered.
It is clear that the “reference materials” interpreted as “arbitrary” by the Samsung side were distributed to reporters in the Ministry of Industry, and reports that Judge Kang gave more positive evaluations in about 30 media, starting with Newsis. MediaToday contacted the reporter of the Ministry of Industry, Newsis, who reported for the first time, on the 21st, but there was no reply.
The reporters of the Ministry of Industry re-acquired the explanation data released by Samsung on the 21st. There was no confirmation of the facts regarding what Samsung claimed.
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