Secretary-General of the Election Commission contacts politicians via second phone... Ruling party criticizes him = South Korea

It has been revealed that the former secretary-general of the South Korean Central Election Commission used a second phone to contact politicians ahead of the 2022 presidential and local elections during his term in office.
According to the Board of Audit and Inspection's audit report on the state of human resource management at the National Election Management Committee, in January 2022, Kim Jong Un, then head of the National Election Management Committee,
・Secretary-General Se-hwan (Kim Se-hwan) instructed the head of the Information Policy Division to "open and bring a mobile phone." Kim is said to have used this mobile phone to contact politicians.
This suggests that Kim was communicating with politicians ahead of the presidential and local elections in 2022.
Regarding the specific details of his interactions with the Ji family, he said, "I cannot talk about that part." In addition, Kim did not return the mobile phone that was activated in the name of the Election Management Committee when he retired.
After the investigation by the Board of Audit and Inspection, it was revealed that he took measures such as resetting his mobile phone and returned it in November 2023, one year and eight months after his retirement.
Kim said, "I did not intentionally take the cell phone home. The item was unintentionally included when an employee was sorting through belongings at the official residence without permission."
However, the Board of Audit and Inspection pointed out that Kim's claims lacked credibility, as an official from the National Election Management Commission testified that "there is no such fact."
In 2019, Kim was accused of using influence to improperly hire his son as an 8th-class civil servant at the Ganghwa County Election Commission in Incheon.
He was indicted in December last year after being accused of tampering with the Constitution and Constitutional Law. The Board of Audit and Inspection's investigation also revealed that officials at the National Election Management Committee had referred to Kim's son as "Crown Prince."
The ruling People Power Party has intensified its criticism of the Election Commission, calling it a "corrupt cartel" over Kim's second phone controversy.
Rep. Na Kyung-won said on Fei Subook the other day, "The reality of the Election Management Committee is a comprehensive set of corruption," and "The secret phone line opened with the Election Management Committee's budget was
How can we trust this corrupt cartel, which has secret talks with politicians and whose fees are paid by the Election Commission even after their retirement?" he said.
"It is even more problematic that the Constitutional Court said the Election Commission is not subject to audit by the Board of Audit and Inspection.
"The true nature of this corrupt cartel should be thoroughly revealed by introducing a special auditor to the Election Management Commission and conducting a national investigation," he said.
The party's lawmaker Joo Jin-woo also wrote on Feibook, "The Secretary-General of the Election Commission's name-lending phone political transaction is a new scandal.
"Now that this fact has come to light, it is inevitable that the impeachment trial of (President Yoon Seok-yeol) will be resumed and evidence will be investigated into the Election Management Committee system," he said.
"The government's blind faith in the impeachment process led to the Board of Audit and Inspection being eliminated and all evidentiary procedures in the presidential impeachment process were rejected too hastily."
Former Chairman Han Dong-hoon also said, "The Election Management Committee, which has not been properly monitored, is now in a position where it has been subject to the Constitutional Court's decision.
"The curtains should be opened to let light into every corner of the Election Management Committee. The Election Management Committee should no longer be a family business.
"Yes," he said.