Illegal employment of Ministry of Land civil servant discovered, suspected of exerting influence over construction company = South Korea

It has been revealed that civil servants who retired from South Korea's Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism and its affiliated agencies were illegally employed at construction companies and other companies. There have been dozens of cases in the past five years.
According to the National Assembly's Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism Committee member Min Hong-chul (both Democratic Party) released materials obtained from the Ministry of Personnel Innovation on the 9th, 20
From 2018 to July 2023 (based on the year of review), there were a total of 43 cases in which retired civil servants from the ministry or affiliated organizations were caught voluntarily finding employment without undergoing employment screening.
If civil servants who hold a certain level of rank or higher want to reemploy after retiring, they must undergo an employment screening based on the ``Public Official Ethics Act.'' retired official
This provision was created in consideration of the possibility of employees exercising undue influence and obstructing the fair performance of their duties. If you get a job without being screened, you will be fined up to 10 million won (approximately 1.1 million yen).
will be punished. In addition, if a person takes a job at an institution that is subject to employment screening that is closely related to his or her work without receiving employment approval, he or she will be sentenced to up to two years in prison or a fine of up to 20 million won.
Looking at individual cases, a civil servant with a rank of 4 retired in 2020 and got a job as a specialist committee member at a major construction company the following year without undergoing an employment screening.
In addition, a grade 6 civil servant resigned in 2017 and was rehired as vice president of an engineering company a month later. Another who retired in the same year
The sixth-grade civil servant was also transferred to a position as an executive at a construction company in August of the following year. Congressman Min said, ``The Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport and Tourism has said that it will use the issue of defective construction at the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH) as an opportunity to break up the concession cartel.
, it was discovered that one of his own employees had been hired as an executive at a civil engineering, design, and construction company that was suspected of violating the Public Office Ethics Act and was related to his work.'' Introducing
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