In connection with the fact that the candidate Kim Jin-wook, the head of the high-ranking public officials criminal investigation, took parental leave while serving at the Constitutional Court and worked as a visiting researcher at an American university, he argued that he had “legitimately took a leave of absence through a fair procedure.”
Kim Jin-wook, senior researcher at the Constitutional Court, appointed as the first chief of the High-ranking Officials Crime Investigation Office (Airborne Division). News 1
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According to a written questionnaire for a personnel hearing submitted by Candidate Kim to the National Assembly on the 17th, candidate Kim worked as a visiting researcher for a year from January 2015 to December of the same year at UC Berkeley while serving as a constitutional researcher. According to the request for personnel hearings submitted to the National Assembly, candidate Kim will take’special culture training’ from December 31, 2014 to June 30 of the following year, and parental leave from July 1, 2015 to December 31 of the same year. It is said to have been back. In this regard, it was revealed in the JoongAng Ilbo report (January 11) that Candidate Kim made parental leave and continued his activities as a visiting researcher.
According to the Public Service Act, etc., taking parental leave and committing an act that violates the purpose of the leave is a ground for disciplinary action. However, Candidate Kim argued that such an activity was “legitimate.” When asked, “What is the candidate’s position in relation to the report that the US training was a violation of the actual law during the parental leave period? (So Byung-cheol, a member of the Democratic Party), Candidate Kim said, “When the entire family including spouse and children stayed in the United States, “I think that I have achieved the purpose of parental leave by educating and raising children,” he said. “I took a legal leave after being approved through a due process by the constitution.”
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In a written question and answer for a personnel hearing submitted to the National Assembly on the 17th by Kim Jin-wook, chief of the chief public officials criminal investigations, he argued that he “achieved the purpose of leave of absence” for continuing his activities as a visiting researcher at a U.S. university after taking parental leave.
– In particular, Candidate Kim emphasized that he received training while focusing on child-rearing during the period. When asked, “How much time was spent on average for the child during the parental leave period, and what background was it possible to do in parallel with the training?” I was able to receive training.” Regarding the visiting researcher’s activities, he said, “I went to work two days a week, and when I wasn’t going to work, I sent my children to school or used the library for research.”
In order to support the content of’dedicated to childrearing’, he added, “I did not allow my spouse to take full responsibility for childrearing alone by acquiring a California driver’s license and taking charge of attending and leaving school for children.” To the question of Rep. Soo-jin Cho, a member of the power of the people for the same purpose, he replied, “As a man who has no experience in child-raising, he did his best at a level that meets the social norm.”
Meanwhile, it was also confirmed that candidate Kim received monthly parental leave allowance during the parental leave period. According to the answers submitted by the Constitutional Constitutional Office of Congressman Yoo Sang-beom, Candidate Kim received a parental leave allowance worth 850,000 won per month for six months from July to December 2015, the period of parental leave. Regarding this, Rep. Yoo argued, “It is obviously illegal to use parental leave to study in the United States,” and argued that “the allowance should be redeemed and disciplined.”
In this regard, the JoongAng Ilbo made several contacts on the day to hear the official position of the Constitutional Court, but it did not reach. Previously, the National Police Agency disciplined 27 of them when 32 police officers who secretly attended law school after taking parental leave and other employees were caught by the auditor of the audit in 2015. The Daegu District Court in 2018 stated in a ruling in this regard, “The State Public Officials Act classifies the reasons for leave of absence in great detail, and the period of leave is different. Parental leave, study leave, training leave, and self-development leave must be judged according to strict standards, taking into account the strict categories.” Candidate Kim’s personnel hearing is scheduled to be held at the National Assembly Legislative Judicial Committee on the 19th.
Reporter Sung Jiwon [email protected]
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