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■ Transmission: YTN Radio FM 94.5 (20: 20 ~ 21: 00)
■ Broadcast date: December 19, 2020 (Saturday)
■ Progress: Kim Yang-won PD
■ Interview: Senior News Reporter Song Young-hoon
* The text below may differ from the actual content of the broadcast, so please check the broadcast for more accurate information.
[팩트체크] Did the government spend 120 billion won promoting K-Defense?-Opposition figures such as Ahn Chul-soo and Joo Ho-young criticize and comment on the government’s quarantine guidelines.
-In the controversy over the purchase of vaccines and the inadequate safety of beds in critical condition, we also looked at media reports criticizing excessive promotional spending.
-Emergency relief abroad for 103 billion ODA projects and 23.8 billion additional budget
◇ PD Kim Yang-won (hereinafter Yang-won Kim)> It’s time to check the facts among the news that took place during the past week. Fact Check Linked to fact checker Song Young-hoon from the top news media. Good Morning?
◆ Song Young-hoon (hereinafter Song Young-hoon) fact-checker> Yes. Good morning?
◇ Kim Yang-won> Every day there are more than a thousand confirmed four-digit cases. The so-called ‘Defense-K’, which was evaluated as successful until a few months ago, is on the cutting board of criticism. Did you prepare the related news?
◆ Song Young-Hoon> Yes, a statement that “the government spent 120 billion won on K Defense Promotion” came out of the political world and verified the facts. This is a statement from Ho-young Joo, the representative of people’s power, as he criticizes the government’s quarantine guidelines at the 19th Corona Countermeasures Special Committee meeting held on the 13th.
Representative Joo said, “Moon Jae-in’s administration has boasted of being ‘quarantine K’ as its own achievement in suppressing the crown pandemic, which was achieved through the sacrifices and active cooperation of the people. . But, “when advanced countries are at war to secure vaccines, He claimed that he spent nearly 120 billion won on public relations spending and devoted himself to self-promotion of K-Defense Prevention.
He added: “If we had distributed rapid diagnostic kits earlier with this budget, we would not have reached this point.”
◇ Kim Yang-won> Yes, this content was reported through various media. This isn’t the first time Quarantine K advertising expenses have been flagged, is it?
◆ Song Young-hoon> Yes. There were also six months ago. Ahn Cheol-soo, the head of the National Assembly Party, said at the party’s Supreme Council on June 11, “The advertising cost of Quarantine K is more than 120 billion won, including the additional budget. We continue to delay payment for rented buses used to quarantine foreign immigrants. ” “Publicity for government policy is also important, but packaging should not take precedence over substance.”
◇ Kim Yang-won> Amidst the controversy over whether purchasing a vaccine or securing a serious bed was insufficient, if a 120 billion won national budget were spent simply to promote K quarantine, it would be wrong, but it would be criticized. What is the base?
◆ Song Young-hoon> He seems to be quoting a press report. Three days before President Ahn’s remarks, some media reported that “the government has prepared a new budget of 10.03 billion won this year and a third supplemental budget of 23.8 billion won to promote K-Defense. “.
This time, we look at the ‘Additional Budget Analysis Proposal’ to find the evidence reported by the media.
Among the spending projects under the jurisdiction of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, there is a ‘human support project, ODA’. Furthermore, it was confirmed that the budget of 10.03 billion won and an additional budget of 23.8 billion won was increased.
◇ Kim Yang-won> Doesn’t ODA mean public development assistance?
◆ Song Young-Hoon> The ODA project refers to the project (Official Development Assistance). It consists of three projects: overseas emergency relief, advanced humanitarian support capabilities, and public-private partnership humanitarian support projects.
Of these, an increase of 23.8 billion won was allocated to the “overseas emergency aid” project. The ‘Overseas Emergency Relief’ project is a project that provides human and material support to affected countries in the event of disasters abroad, such as natural disasters and disputes.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has been carrying out the project based on Article 7 of the ‘Overseas Emergency Aid Law’ and the ‘Korea International Cooperation Agency Law’ before the Corona situation 19 .
As the global damage caused by Corona 19 continues, the supplemental third draft was included to provide masks and diagnostic kits to vulnerable countries as humanitarian aid.
◇ Kim Yang-won> Can you call humanitarian aid promotion of ‘Defense K’?
◆ Song Yeong-Hoon> If you seek to raise the national brand, it can be seen that it is useful for national advertising.
Furthermore, it is a project that has been underway before the expansion of Corona 19, and the ODA project is a humanitarian project not only in Korea, but also with other developed countries.
◇ Kim Yang-won> So the 120 billion won initially claimed by CEO Ahn Chul-soo or Ho-young Joo is a budget for emergency aid, and if so, did the government really spend promotional expenses for ‘K-Defense Prevention’?
◆ Song Young-hoon> Yes. According to the ‘3rd Additional Compensation Budget Review Report’, the ‘Gyeonggi Booster Package Project’ includes the ‘K-Defense Prevention Industry Promotion’ project.
The game booster packs business includes’ strengthening the quarantine system throughout the entire prevention-diagnosis-treatment cycle ‘,’ promoting early development and production of therapeutic agents and vaccines’, and ‘branding and expansion of exports with successful experiences of quarantine K ‘. Between them, an additional budget of 44.3 billion won was allocated in the section of ‘K-Defense Branding Success Experience and Export Expansion’, which can be seen as an advertisement for K-Defense Prevention.
Among these 44.3 billion won, a project that can be considered public relations is that of ‘promoting the national image through the production of promotional content abroad’, and a budget of 1.8 thousand has been organized million won.
The content of the project is to produce a video about ‘K-Defense’ and spread it around the world to improve the national image. It is 1 billion won for “promotional video production” and 800 million won for “outdoor advertising.” It has not yet been executed.
◇ Kim Yang-won> Now, what is the budget to promote K quarantine? Does it seem to be a little different from the 120 billion won?
◆ Song Young-hoon> So Young-rae Son, head of the Strategic Planning Division of the Accident Control Headquarters of the Ministry of Health and Welfare, said: “The advertising spending spent on quarantine this year was 6,700 million won. ” “The amount spent on television commercials, media advertisements, Internet content, etc.”
The amount spent on PR spending was not KRW 120 billion, but KRW 6.7 billion, which was also run to inform the public about quarantine rules accurately, not to promote ‘K Defense’.
◇ Kim Yang-won> In short, the ‘K-Defense PR cost of 120 billion won’ claimed by Ho-Young Joo and National Assembly Executive Director Ahn Cheol-soo is not a relations cost public of ‘K-Defense’, but a budget for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs’ ‘Human Support Project (ODA)’ It means that the budget allocated for the foreign promotion of “K-Defense” was 1.8 billion won. The cost of promoting Korean media is 6.7 billion won.
