[단독] On-site inspection of ’30 million won show’

It was belatedly revealed that the Ministry of Education’s ‘AT quarantine field inspection’, conducted at a high school in Yongsan, Seoul on November 29, which was four days before the 2021 university entrance exam, was carried held as an ‘outsourcing event’ with a service cost of 30 million won. President Moon Jae-in, Deputy Prime Minister of Social Affairs and Education Yoo Eun-hye, and Seoul City Superintendent Cho Hee-yeon attended the on-site inspection event.

According to the data from the ‘AT’ quarantine field inspection event presented by Congressman Kim Byeong-wook of the National Assembly Board of Education on the 25th, the Ministry of Education signed a service contract with an agency event on the 27th of last month, two days before the on-site inspection of the test site.

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30 million won event service fee, used for 30 minutes of real-time video conferencing

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The event service estimate contains items that are irrelevant to verifying the quarantine readiness status of the test site. In the estimation details, △ Event planning and production: KRW 1 million △ Event hall glass window fog sheet paper: KRW 1.8 million △ Labor cost for general assembly of the meeting and operation of the console: 800,000 KRW △ Acoustic system 6.1 million KRW △ Video system KRW 5.7 million △ Lighting system KRW 800,000 △ Power generation and reserve vehicle It included 2.8 million won in electricity.

The cost of these itemized items was estimated at 2,296 million won, including event operating expenses. The remaining expenses included 1.84 million won for general management, 2.48 million won for agency profits, and 2.72 million won for VAT.

The on-site inspection event took 50 minutes from arriving at the main entrance to leaving the school. The person who was quarantined listened to the explanation of the quarantine measures in a separate testing room for 20 minutes, and after inspecting the student’s movements such as the testing room, waiting room, and bathroom, reviewed the quarantine uniforms and the changing rooms of the SAT supervisor. After 30 minutes, a real-time video conference was held with the principal of a high school in Busan, the academic from the Jeonnam Office of Education, and the parents of the examinees who worked from home. Most of the event service costs were spent preparing the 30 minute video conference. Sound, video, lighting equipment, consoles, power generation vehicles, standby power, and steering were unnecessary to examine quarantine preparations at the test site.

The Ministry of Education on-site inspection event, attended by President Moon, was held for the purpose of the final inspection of the quarantine preparations at the test site. It was a plan to call for quarantine to minimize the risk of infection from those examined and the community. A Ministry of Education official said: “As of November 26, the dissemination of Corona 19 was increasing.” Explained.

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Criticisms of “focusing on emphasis on ‘K quarantine’ rather than on-site inspection of test site”

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However, there are criticisms that it was an event that focused on promoting “Defense K” rather than the on-site inspection of the SAT exam. At this meeting, President Moon said, “The results of Korea’s general election have been highly praised by many countries, saying, ‘The model quarantine country has set another example in electoral quarantine.’ “We are watching with extraordinary interest the conduct of the test, including the confirmed and quarantined subjects.”

It’s hard to understand that 30 million won was spent on the 30-minute ceremonial video conference. Regarding the Corona 19 situation, the Ministry of Education held several videoconferences this year with students, parents and teachers, but did not sign a separate service contract. The ‘Parents’ Meeting for Child Care Support’, held in late August at the Association for Mutual Aid in Disasters of Educational Facilities in Yeouido, Seoul, chaired by Deputy Prime Minister Yoo, was also held in a method of video conferencing in real time. Did.

When the on-site inspection event took place last month, examinees were generally cynical. One examinee said, “I’m scared of getting a corona infection on the SAT so I’m very careful when going to the bathroom, but adults seem to be full of bragging thoughts about K’s quarantine.” On the other hand, there was also a response that said, “I was relieved to reconfirm that the SAT will not be postponed.”

The cost of the event service, which was used for the on-site inspection of the SAT test center, is the second highest among the five event service contracts signed by the Ministry of Education this year. The ‘Korean version of the New Deal, Go to the Field-Smart Green Smart School Event’, which took place in June, cost 76.73 million won in service costs.

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