Daegu mayor Hong Joon-pyo ``goes too far'' in requesting materials for governmental audit = South Korea

Daegu Mayor Hong Joon-pyo said on Jan. 1, “Daegu will strictly separate national affairs from local affairs before conducting a national audit.”
Mayor Hong said on his Facebook page that day, "In order to prepare for the submission of many materials for the national audit, the city government
It's almost paralyzing," he said emphatically. He continued, “The requests for submission of materials for the national audit are excessive. I requested a lawmaker to submit about 70 materials, but there was no use for a question of about 15 minutes.
Do we need that much money?" he said. Furthermore, he pointed out that ``the subjects of national administration audits are limited to government-funded affairs and affairs entrusted by the state, and local affairs belong to the scope of local assembly administrative investigations.''
Therefore, starting this year, Daegu City will strictly separate national affairs from local affairs and conduct national government audits." Along with this, ``(requests for submission of documents for national government audits) include only materials subject to national government audits.
``We have not responded to the request for local administrative documents, and have instructed them to respond by pointing out the reason.''