Yeo to Park Sung-joong: "Hearing Lacks Decisive Blow... Opposition Repeats Unreasonable Claims"

As the deadline for adopting the confirmation hearing report for nominee Lee Dong-gwan, Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, approaches on the 21st, Park Seong-jung, the ruling party floor leader of the National Assembly's Science, Technology, Information and Broadcasting and Communications Committee (STIBC), criticized the opposition party for avoiding negotiations for the report adoption, saying, "The opposition party has predetermined that he is unqualified from the beginning and is repeatedly making unreasonable claims."

On the same day, Park said on MBC's 'Kim Jong-bae's Focus' program, "Even when we suggest quickly meeting among ourselves (ruling and opposition floor leaders) to discuss the agenda for submission, they are avoiding negotiations."

Candidate for Chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, Lee Dong-gwan, is talking with an official at the confirmation hearing held at the National Assembly on the 18th. Photo by Hyunmin Kim kimhyun81@

He added, "Today is the day to adopt the hearing report, and we need to hold a full committee meeting, but for that, there must be an agenda. To set the agenda, I need to reach some agreement with Cho Seong-rae (Democratic Party) floor leader, whether to approve or reject, but (Cho floor leader) is avoiding it, saying he has no time."

This implies a high possibility that the full committee meeting for report adoption will be canceled. Park said, "They insist on holding the full committee meeting at 10 a.m. no matter what, but we have never held a full committee meeting without an agenda," adding, "We are not just gathering to chat among ourselves."

Regarding the hearings for nominee Lee held over two days on the 18th and 19th, Park evaluated, "The opposition party raised many issues from various perspectives, but there was no decisive blow. The opposition predetermined from the start that he was unqualified and kept making unreasonable claims and repeating questions."

On the allegations of broadcasting control against nominee Lee, Park said, "Each administrative agency can prepare documents based on their own perspectives and judgments. Among the dozens or hundreds of various documents, there might have been such documents (broadcasting control documents)," but added, "Although such documents existed, there is no evidence that the documents from the Lee Myung-bak administration were executed. However, the broadcasting control documents from the Moon Jae-in administration were 100% executed."

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