Criticism is pouring in that the presidential office is evading responsibility by showing an attitude of deferring responsibility for the confusion caused by President Yoon Seok-yeol’s remarks on the CSAT to the Ministry of Education. President Yoon showed the appearance of blaming ministries when controversy escalated despite the issue of 5-year-old admissions and the 69-hour work week.
A senior official in the presidential office said in a phone call with the <Hankyoreh> on the 18th, “The ‘Cho Kuk Crisis’ was the trigger for President Yoon to start politics. “Isn’t the nature of the situation in the country the unfairness of the entrance exam?” “President Yoon has a sense of mission for this, so he emphasized that part. said. President Yoon’s instructions were focused on improving the unfairness of the entrance exam, but the explanation seems to blame that Deputy Prime Minister Lee made a mistake in the process of delivering them and turned them into problems with the difficulty of the college entrance exam.
This is not the first time President Yoon has been blamed for ministries and ministers. In July of last year, President Yoon ordered to “quickly find a way to raise the school age by one year,” but as the controversy grew, he sacked Education Minister and Deputy Prime Minister Park Soon-ae in August of that year. The presidential office backed down, saying, “(Reducing the entrance age먹튀검증) is just one means in the policy direction of childhood education and care.”
The ’69-hour work week’ also had a similar pattern. President Yoon immediately ordered a reexamination of the ‘reform plan for up to 69 hours per week’ announced by the Ministry of Employment and Labor on March 16 as opposition from young people grew, saying, “President Yoon has the perception that more than 60 hours a week is unreasonable. He felt sorry for not putting an appropriate cap on the government within the legislative notice and ordered supplementation,” he handed over responsibility to the Ministry of Employment and Labor. Even though the announcement at the time of the Ministry of Employment and Labor was made after discussions with the Presidential Office and others, when public opinion deteriorated, President Yoon and the Office of the President criticized the reform plan itself as the Ministry of Employment and Labor’s fault.
Opposition parties all criticized President Yoon’s attitude.
In a commentary, Hong Seong-guk, spokesman for the Democratic Party of Korea, said, “As criticism poured in, the president sacked the head of the Ministry of Education’s college admissions office and showed a reign of terror by guillotining Deputy Prime Minister Lee Joo-ho of Education.” ” he said. Justice Party spokesman Lee Jae-rang also said, “President Yoon tried to escape the crisis again by ‘blaming the minister’. If this kind of repercussions were unexpected and he added words, he would be irresponsible and ignorant as president,” he said. “President Yoon should apologize for his hasty remarks. If you don’t know well, don’t speak carelessly and listen carefully. He commented, “A president who catches people with the actions of Seonmu-dang is not qualified.”
Even in the passport, there is not a little criticism of President Yoon’s impromptu instructions. An aide to the presidential office said, “The president’s instructions should have ‘finality’, but if they cause new conflicts and increase the ‘volatility’ that changes the instructions, that is definitely a problem.”
People’s Power One first-time lawmaker said, “I think the purpose and direction of the president’s remarks are correct, but it seems that they have not been conveyed well to the people.” It was necessary,” he said. On the 17th, former Congressman Seung-min Yoo posted on his Facebook page, “Do you throw the education field into chaos by recklessly saying contradictory stories that don’t match what you know about the CSAT?” It shook the predictability of the CSAT and caused chaos in an instant.”