Jeon Hyun-hee: "Habitual Tardiness? Unfair Frame... Audit Must Be Conducted with the Same Standards for Board Chairman and Ministers"

Jeon Hyun-hee, Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission Photo by Yonhap News

[Asia Economy Sejong=Reporter Son Seonhee] Jeon Hyun-hee, Chairperson of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, who is under strong resignation pressure from the ruling party, strongly opposed the Board of Audit and Inspection's special audit on her attendance, saying on the 7th, "Audit the Chairman of the Board of Audit and ministers with the same standards."

On the same day, Chairperson Jeon said through her social media, "Let's establish attendance standards such as commuting times and locations for all high-ranking public officials at the ministerial level and above, including the President, and apply the same commuting management standards to political appointees as to general public officials to raise the value of fairness and common sense to the public's level."

Chairperson Jeon emphasized, "In response to the National Assembly's request for attendance data of the Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection, it was answered that 'there is no separate management of commuting times and data submission is not possible' for the Chairman," adding, "As the Board of Audit and Inspection replied, the government does not have separate attendance standards such as commuting times and locations for political appointees at the ministerial level and above, whose work scope, workplace, and work types vary."

Chairperson Jeon strongly criticized, "Despite knowing that the Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, the Chairman of the Board of Audit and Inspection, and other ministers of different ministries have no commuting time management as political appointees, the Board of Audit and Inspection is conducting an unusual audit targeting only the Chairperson of the Commission, unfairly framing her with habitual tardiness, which is not applied to other ministers."

She added, "As a result, I am experiencing unbearable strong resignation pressure and going through a difficult time, suffering from serious defamation that humiliates me, causing shame and mental distress," and reiterated, "If judged by the Board of Audit and Inspection's standards, audit ministers who have serious attendance discipline violations such as habitual absenteeism fairly with the same standards and criteria as the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission."

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