[단독]Chang-Hum Byun, President of LH, worked at the Jinju headquarters 7 days a month

President Moon Jae-in visited the Hwaseong Dongtan Happy Housing Complex in Gyeonggi-do to commemorate LH’s 1 million rental housing units on the afternoon of the 10th. President Moon, the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation, Kim Hyun-mi, and LH Chairman Byeon Chang-heum (far right, Land Minister candidate) are moving as they look inside the compound. [청와대사진기자단]

When the candidate Byeon Chang-heum of the Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation took over as president of LH (Korea Land and Housing Corporation), the number of working days for the headquarters located in Jinju, Gyeongnam, averaged 7.4 days per month. According to data presented by LH by Representative Park Seong-min (of the National Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Commission of the National Assembly), the average number of times that candidate Byeon worked at the headquarters from May 2019 to November 2020 was 7.4 days a month, and the head office worked 13 days in March this year. It was the longest stay in. In November of last year and in August of this year, the number of working days at headquarters was the minimum of 4 days each.

The candidate Chang-Hum Byun, Minister of Land, Infrastructure and Transport, the number of times he worked at headquarters at the time of LH President. Graphic = Reporter Park Kyung-min [email protected]

Candidate Byun went on a business trip on April 29, 2019, the day he took office. After working at the headquarters on the morning of the opening day, he visited Cheonan, Chungcheongnam-do to visit the regular LH union delegation in the afternoon. Candidate Byun made a business trip to Kuwait for four days, from April 30 to May 4, the day after his inauguration.

After returning from a business trip abroad, he took a two-day break, and on the morning of the 7th, he visited Gocheok-dong, Guro-gu, Seoul to visit the shelter support site for the vulnerable and visited the National Assembly in the afternoon. The next day, I visited Sejong City to check the safety of the Happy City construction site, and then the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation and the Ministry of Strategy and Finance were inaugurated.

Candidate Byun visited the headquarters again after the opening ceremony on May 9, 2019, after 10 days. Candidate Byun continued to work at the headquarters until the morning of the 10th (Friday) the next day, and then went on a business trip to Tongyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do to visit the urban regeneration site at the abandoned shipyard in the afternoon. After the weekend, on Monday the 13th, we visited the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transportation of Sejong City for a meeting with executive directors of public institutions, and the next day, the 14th, we visited the Blue House to attend meetings of policies such as urban regeneration and SOC life. Candidate Byeon, who was working at headquarters on the 15th, took a business trip to visit sites around the metropolitan area from the 16th to the 17th the next day. In this way, Candidate Byun only went to work on May 6 last year.

In November of last year, when the parent company had fewer working days than 4 days, from day one, I went on a business trip to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the foundation. On the morning of the 4th I worked for the first time in November, but in the afternoon I went on a business trip to the Honam area for business deals and site visits. After that, it took six days for me to go back to work at headquarters. Candidate Byeon left headquarters on the 18th of this month and did not visit LH headquarters in November.

Land, Infrastructure and Transportation Minister Candidate Chang-Hum Byun, Chairman of the Korea Land and Housing Corporation (LH), resigns from his resignation ceremony held in the auditorium of the Jinju LH headquarters on the 14th. Yunhap news

The suspicion that candidate Byeon did not frequently visit the headquarters located in Jinju, Gyeongnam, was also recently raised via the anonymous bulletin board ‘Blind’. A netizen named LH member wrote a post addressed to candidate Byun, saying, “I am the president and will be in Seoul all week, even if I make all kinds of excuses for not going to Jinju headquarters.” To write on the blinds of a specific company, you must authenticate.

Representative Park Seong-min said: “Many of Candidate Byeon’s national business travel areas are the metropolitan area where the Blue House and the National Assembly are located, and Sejong City, where the government ministries are concentrated.” . . Representative Park said, “As candidate Byeon is known to be close to former Blue House policy officer Kim Soo-hyun, we will thoroughly verify through a personal audience whether the minister’s staff is code level staff. government or paratroopers. “

Regarding frequent business trips, candidate Byun said: “We have supplied (authorized) the largest number of housing units in the entire country since the launch of LH last year and two years this year. We also promote the residential welfare project at the national level ”.

Reporter Kijeong Kim [email protected]