The Board of Audit and Inspection announces additional findings regarding allegations of fraudulent hiring by the Korean Election Commission... The son of the Secretary-General, who was nicknamed the ”Prince”

The Board of Audit and Inspection announced on the 1st further revealing facts that the South Korean Election Management Commission has systematically illegally hired the children of government officials and run its organization and personnel in a lax manner.
The children of employees were recruited without disclosure, and only internal committee members with close ties were allowed to serve as examination committee members.
The fraudulent practices included manipulation and falsification, deliberate ignoring of the requirement for local government heads to consent to transfers, and discriminatory application of the requirement.
Many problems have arisen. The Incheon Election Commission conducted competitive recruitment based on career backgrounds, and the daughter of Secretary General A was given preferential treatment during the recruitment process.
The secretary-general of the city election management committee is said to have repeatedly used the same medical certificate, falsely approved sick leave himself, and committed about 10 false sick leave cases over an eight-year period.
He was absent without permission for 0 days and used false sick leave for 80 days. He also traveled abroad without permission 70 times, totaling more than 170 days.
In the process of hiring the children of Mr. B, who served as Secretary General of the Jeollanam-do Election Commission,
So, the interview committee was not allowed to prepare evaluation sheets, only certain people were rejected, and evidence was destroyed in preparation for the investigation. The Chungbuk Election Commission gave preferential treatment to the children of Mr. C, who served as deputy secretary-general.
In order to avoid this, the government did not make a recruitment announcement and implemented a "non-major competitive recruitment" in which only the children of Mr. C were interviewed by internal committee members.
It all started with C wanting to be a member of the National Assembly. C used his influence over the personnel officer at the Chungbuk Election Commission and the section chief at the Danyang County Election Commission to submit false statements to the National Assembly.
In addition, the Gyeonggi Provincial Election Commission intervened in the hiring of a man who will soon become the husband of a fifth-class employee, Mr. F. During the application period, the personnel manager of the Anseong City Election Commission
The election committee instructed its election officers to check whether the man could agree to move to a specific city. However, when it became clear that he could not agree to the move, the personnel officer
However, the other two applicants who passed the interview were not given the same information and were rejected for not agreeing to the transfer.
Prior to this, the Board of Audit and Inspection had investigated the organization and personnel affairs of the Election Management Committee, including the hiring of relatives, after allegations of preferential hiring of children of high-ranking officials of the Election Management Committee were raised in May last year.
The company conducted an overall review of operations. In particular, it investigated the 167 career-based recruitment processes carried out since 2013 and found that regulations had been violated in every one of them. The total number of violations was more than 800.
The BAI confirmed these facts and announced that it had requested the Supreme Prosecutors' Office to investigate 27 current and former Election Management Committee officials who were actively involved in the fraud.