Democratic Party: "Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport Deliberately Hid Data on Yangpyeong Expressway"

"Won Hee-ryong Must Take Responsibility and Accept the State Audit"

The Democratic Party of Korea stated on the 28th, "It has been revealed that a Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport (MOLIT) official deliberately concealed materials containing evidence of considering the change of the terminus of the Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway during the MOLIT’s national audit."

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Park Seong-jun, spokesperson for the Democratic Party, said in a written briefing on the same day, "MOLIT claimed that it considered the terminus change during the feasibility study initiation report at the end of May last year and accepted the claims of an external contractor. However, the director of MOLIT’s Road Bureau confessed that MOLIT’s responsible staff instructed the deletion of the contractor’s task order containing the ‘review of terminus location change.’"

Spokesperson Park added, "It was also revealed that MOLIT had already prepared a ‘task order’ assuming the terminus change in April last year. In the end, it was MOLIT, not the contractor, that proposed the terminus change, and the timing of the review was April, not the end of May," and stated, "If the terminus change was reasonable and justifiable, there would be no reason to hide these facts."

Spokesperson Park said, "MOLIT and Minister Won Hee-ryong, who disparaged the opposition’s claims as political agitation while secretly concealing and manipulating materials to mislead public opinion, must take appropriate responsibility," and urged, "It is not too late even now. Apologize to the public and immediately scrap the change plan."

Spokesperson Park also said, "Accept the national investigation to clarify the special favor allegations regarding the Seoul-Yangpyeong Expressway route change involving the family of Mrs. Kim Geon-hee, which has clearly been revealed as a state power abuse," and added, "That would be the minimum courtesy to the citizens suffering from traffic congestion and the residents of Yangpyeong County."

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