Seongnam City Hall Employee 'List of About 150 Unmarried Female Public Officials in Their 30s' Scandal... "Document of Flattering Hospitality"

Handed Document to Then-Mayor's Secretary
Seongnam City "Requests Investigation for Alleged Personal Information Protection Act Violation"

Seongnam City Hall. /Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Reporter Na Ye-eun] It was recently revealed that an employee working in the personnel department of Seongnam City Hall created a 'personal information list of about 150 unmarried female public officials in their 30s' and handed it over to Eun Soo-mi, former secretary to the Mayor of Seongnam.

According to Seongnam City on the 25th, Mr. A, who was a former secretary to Mayor Eun Soo-mi, recently made a public interest report about this matter to the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission.

He explained, "Around mid-2019, while working as a secretary, I received a document titled 'Personal Information of Unmarried Female Employees Aged 31 to 37 at Seongnam City Hall,' which was prepared by personnel department employee Mr. B after reviewing the personnel system for a month. It was a sycophantic document intended to curry favor with me (Mr. A), who was an unmarried secretary working in the mayor’s office, a core department of city power."

The document attached to the report, consisting of 12 pages of A4 paper, included photos, names, ages, affiliations, and ranks of 151 unmarried female employees.

Mr. A said, "I should have raised the issue immediately upon receiving the document, but at the time, I was continuously reporting to Mayor Eun about her close aides’ corruption, personnel corruption, contract corruption, and public service discipline, but my reports were ignored. I judged that even if I had raised the issue, it would have been dismissed."

He added, "In March 2020, feeling disillusioned with Mayor Eun’s corruption, I voluntarily resigned and began the path of a whistleblower starting with reporting recruitment corruption, and only now have I reported this matter."

In response, Seongnam City stated, "We have requested an investigation by the Seongnam Jungwon Police Station into the document’s creator and distributor on charges of violating the Personal Information Protection Act."

Meanwhile, Mr. B, who created the document, is reported to have admitted to the allegations and is currently working at an administrative welfare center after leaving the personnel-related department at the main office.

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