Jeonnam Provincial Assembly Member Park Hyung-dae Points Out "90% of School Electronic Signboards Dominated by a Specific Company"

Park Hyung-dae, a Jeonnam Provincial Assembly member (Jangheung 1·Progressive Party), raised suspicions on the 2nd during the Jeonnam Office of Education's administrative audit that a specific company is monopolizing 90% of the school electronic display board installation projects.

Park Hyung-dae, Jeonnam Provincial Assembly Member

According to Assemblyman Park Hyung-dae, T Company carried out the installation of weather electronic display boards at all 10 schools in the Jeonnam region this year, and some schools installed additional weather electronic display boards separately despite already having 'notification electronic display boards' installed.

Assemblyman Park pointed out, "Even though frontline schools have notification electronic display boards, weather electronic display boards are being installed, and there are places where two electronic display boards are installed in one building," adding, "The entire process?from schools proposing the projects to the Office of Education allocating the budget?is not being properly reviewed."

Some schools in the Jeonnam region installed separate weather electronic display boards in addition to the existing 'notification electronic display boards'.

He continued, "All 10 schools that installed weather electronic display boards executed the projects through T Company, and when the Jeonnam Office of Education contracted the electronic display board projects through the national procurement system, T Company monopolized 90% of the project costs," stating, "In terms of project costs, out of 2.4 billion KRW allocated for electronic display board-related projects, T Company won bids worth 2.2 billion KRW. The entire contracting process needs to be reviewed."

He further emphasized, "Students can easily check fine dust and weather information through their mobile phones, so is there a reason to pour such a large amount of money into this? The entire contracting process must be reviewed."

In response, Deputy Superintendent Hwang Seong-hwan said, "We will re-examine whether there is a corporate monopoly and strive to resolve any issues."

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