Kim Du-kwan on In-guk-gong Controversy... "Public Corporation Job Seekers Are Not Aiming to Be Security Screening Staff"

Kim Du-kwan "It's unfair to get double the wage just because of a little more education"
Ha Tae-kyung "Young people should moderate their anger in the hot summer"

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[Asia Economy Reporter Lim Chun-han] On the 28th, Kim Du-gwan, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, criticized Ha Tae-kyung of the United Future Party regarding the controversy over the conversion of security screening personnel at Incheon International Airport Corporation (IIAC) to regular positions, saying, "Ha Tae-kyung’s skill of cutting out context and cleverly twisting things to make a perfectly fine person look like a fool surpasses even the Chosun Ilbo."

On the same day, Kim said on Facebook, "I asked whether the security screening staff who will be hired as regular employees at IIAC, which is designed with an average annual salary of about 91 million won, and will receive roughly 35 million won annually, are the target of job seekers who embrace TOEIC, computer proficiency, and NCS and are willing to retake employment exams to enter IIAC."

Kim explained, "I raised the issue asking why they oppose the direct employment and regularization of these people when the job seekers aiming for the corporation are not the ones who will work in that field nor are they losing their share."

Kim added, "Out of frustration, I created study materials for anyone interested to take a look," and presented a chronological summary of the verbal exchange with Representative Ha.

Earlier, on the 26th, Kim stated, "It is rather unfair that those who studied a bit more and passed the written exam to become regular employees receive about twice the wages of non-regular workers," and claimed, "The fact that over 200,000 people signed the national petition is due to fake news by JoongAng, Chosun, and Dong-a newspapers attacking the government's public sector regularization policy." In response, Representative Ha criticized, "I can only shake my head at the perception that a regular job with an annual salary of 35 million won is a bad job," and warned, "In this already hot summer, young people should refrain from provoking anger excessively."

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