“Are You a Public Official? Then Join the Campaign to Cut Business Promotion Expenses” Oh Gyuseok, Busan Gijang County Governor, Proposes ‘Saving the Nation’ Amid COVID-19 Crisis

South Korean Public Officials Must Drastically Cut Next Year's Business Expense Budgets Themselves

I Have Spent 0 Won for 6 Years, "It Is the Proper Duty of Public Officials Amid Citizens' Hardships"

Oh Gyu-seok, Mayor of Gijang County.

[Asia Economy Yeongnam Reporting Headquarters Reporter Kim Yong-woo] “It is very difficult due to COVID-19. Join the movement to cut down the business promotion expenses of public officials in the Republic of Korea!”

This is what Oh Gyu-seok, the mayor of Busan Gijang-gun, known for not using business promotion expenses for five years, shouted on the 9th.

Although he himself practices saving the “people’s tax money” and the “Cheongbaekri Public Official Award” by not spending, this time he directed his words to all public officials citing the “national crisis.”

Next year, Oh Gyu-seok, mayor of Busan Gijang-gun, seems unlikely to spend a single penny on business promotion expenses. There will be no budget at all because it will not be allocated in the first place.

Since 2017, Oh, who has not allocated a single penny for the mayor’s business promotion expenses for five years, declared that he will allocate 0 won again next year.

In addition to his six-year streak of zero spending, this time he went a step further.

On the 9th, Mayor Oh proposed that public officials in the Republic of Korea drastically cut their business promotion expenses for next year for the people who have been fighting the two-year war against COVID-19 and the economic war.

The government, the National Assembly, affiliated public institutions, metropolitan local governments, basic local governments, metropolitan councils, and basic councils are now gradually entering the basic work for next year’s budget allocation.

As the budget allocation period approaches, Mayor Oh boldly insisted that public officials in the Republic of Korea cut their business promotion expenses themselves when preparing the budget.

Mayor Oh said, “When the country is in difficulty, it is the duty and responsibility of public officials, both in the past and now, to save the country by cutting their own flesh first.”

He believes that even saving a single penny of business promotion expenses should be returned to the people suffering from COVID-19.

Mayor Oh said, “I propose the sincere participation of public officials in the Republic of Korea,” and “I hope the movement to cut public officials’ business promotion expenses will spread like wildfire across the country.”

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