Foreign Minister Eui-yong Eui-yong is answering questions from reporters while attending an office in a building in Jongno-gu, Seoul on the 21st of last month. News 1
It was revealed that the second son of the candidate Eui-yong Eui-yong of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade was an intern at a private company while studying abroad. After studying abroad, he immediately quit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and it is pointed out whether there is any reason to prevent the manpower from leaving after Jung became minister.
According to the office of Representative Lee Tae-gyu of the People’s Party on the 5th, Jung’s second son entered the 34th foreign affairs examination in 2000 and quit the Ministry of Foreign Affairs in July 2008. Among the 7 years and 11 months of experience in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, the actual working period was only 3 years. After serving in the military for three years, he left state-funded overseas training to Harvard University in the United States after the discharge. He left the Ministry of Foreign Affairs immediately after completing his master’s degree at Harvard University, receiving salaries from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs for about two years from July 2006.
During his master’s studies at Harvard University, he worked as a research assistant intern at the North American subsidiary of Enel Green Power, a new and renewable energy company headquartered in Italy. Lee reported that he joined the company after the training had ended and has been working with a high salary until now.
However, Candidate Chung said that about $100,000 (about 111.8 million won), including school expenses, staying expenses, and airfare including accompanying family members, received from the state were returned when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs quit. Officials who have received overseas training for more than 6 months are required to serve twice as much as the training period.
A diplomat in his 30s who passed the foreign affairs exam last year suddenly resigned and joined Google. There were 7 cases in which diplomats with less than 10 years of experience in the last 10 years returned their tuition fees and retired after overseas training.
Rep. Lee said, “I cannot criticize the freedom of choice regarding individual careers, but nurturing competent diplomats is a very important strategic task for the country,” said Lee. He pointed out that it is a very inappropriate behavior as a public official to move to a private company immediately after studying abroad because he did not have enough internships in private companies while studying abroad.” At the same time, he asked, “While excellent diplomats are having a problem with civilian movement, is there any reason to detain competent diplomats who fled to the private sector after becoming minister?”
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