December 20th, I'm going to stop the second "Body Sehun."

YTN Radio (FM 94.5) [YTN News FM Wise Radio Life]
□ Broadcast Date: November 27, 2024 (Wednesday)
□ Host: Announcer Park Gui-bin
□ Castor: Lee Kyung-sook, Seoul Metropolitan Councilman (Chief Representative of People's Power)

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◆ Announcer Park Gui-bin (hereinafter referred to as Park Gui-bin): It is a wise special citizen's life time with the Seoul Metropolitan Council, a legislative body that represents the voices of 10 million Seoul citizens. Today, I am with Seoul Metropolitan Council member Lee Kyung-sook, who is the senior vice representative of the People's Power of the Seoul Metropolitan Council. Senator, welcome.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook, Seoul Metropolitan Councilman (hereinafter referred to as Lee Kyung-sook): Hello.

◆Park Gui Bin: Please say hello to our listeners and citizens.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: Hello. I'm Lee Kyung-sook, a member of the People's Power and member of the Seoul Transportation Committee, which has districts of Chang 1-dong, 4-dong, and 5-dong in Dobong-gu.

◆Park Gui-bin: Welcome. Senator, it snowed a lot today. It snowed a lot in Seoul, so how was your trip?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: I left early in the morning. It was okay because I was coming by subway.

◆Park Gui-bin: You came by public transportation. Don't you say it's the first snow? But I can't believe it's snowing so heavily. You have to be especially careful not to cause any damage. At times like this, the lawmakers are much more nervous. Why don't you go to your constituency?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: Of course. And the government employees must have not been able to sleep yesterday. I think it's up to the second stage of the emergency.

◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. So are you leaving after the interview today?

◇Lee Kyung-sook: You have to go to the area right away and look at it.

◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. I also come out early in the morning, and I think they are civil servants. Now that it looks like that. They came out and were doing something on the road. Looking at that, I thought, "You're working hard." Especially at times like this, civil servants are working really hard.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: You're going through a lot.

◆Park Gui-bin: So do the lawmakers. He served as the chief deputy representative of the People's Power in the second half of the Seoul Metropolitan Council. Please tell us your resolution.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: Now that we have discussed with our floor leader, we are now focusing on life politics so that we can fully support our members to do well in their legislative and regional activities, and to become a more productive parliament through cooperation between the ruling and opposition parties, and to make citizens feel happy.

◆Park Gui-bin: He served as a five-term congressman in Dobong-gu, probably because of his political career, that he took such an important role in the second half of the year. How is it when you are a 5th term district council member and when you enter the Seoul Metropolitan Council and work as a legislator? Are you very different?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: It's very different. Gu councilor did it four times. There are a total of five times to the Seoul Metropolitan Council. The range has completely changed. And since I have to go to and from work, I used to share many things with the local residents, but now I can't see them. It's too bad. There are also complaints about it. And now, for 10 million citizens in Seoul, our budget was about 800 billion won in Dobong-gu. But it's 47 trillion won here, so it's a number of times. So, we have to deliberate, deal with various agendas, and there are a lot more complaints, so it's a pity that we can't take a good look at our Dobong-gu area.

◆Park Gui-bin: I see. Anyway, you're really busy. There are a lot of things you have to watch and look at, so you're busy, but you'll be responsible for that role because you're the chief deputy leader of the People's Power. Nevertheless, when the lawmakers come from the Seoul Metropolitan Council, we'll have time to report to our citizens about the activities they've been doing. So, let's start right away with Seoul Metropolitan Councilman Lee Kyung-sook's citizen report. Can you start with the first report with the intention of submitting approval to the citizens?

◇Lee Kyung-sook: It's a hot issue these days. Now, as the ages for various sex crimes continue to decrease, I have proposed an ordinance on the prevention and education of digital sex crimes to the school education office. Also, the main content of this is now a deepfake survey. The survey and prevention education should be carried out for elementary and middle schools as the age is getting lower.

◆Park Gui-bin: He proposed an ordinance bill that calls for conducting a deepfake survey and mandatory education. You proposed an amendment to the Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education's ordinance on digital sex crime prevention and education. In fact, it became a very big issue in our society, and many people were very concerned. While listening to the contents at that time, when will this ordinance be implemented?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: That's now going to be implemented as soon as we pass the plenary session on December 20th. Until now, there has been no independent investigation of deepfake damage. So, if this ordinance is included this time, we can do education and conduct a fact-finding survey to prevent further damage to respond to it, so we focused on such things as pre-education.

◆Park Gui-bin: Can we consider any support for the victim or that?

◇Lee Kyung-sook: Now, we have to do a fact-finding survey first and then come with various prescriptions for the damage.

◆Park Gui Bin: That's right. That's right. What's important is prevention. Education is actually very important because it's the most important thing to prevent this from happening. It means that we have to make it mandatory. I think you've discussed it with the education office as well. The office of education plays a big role.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: That's right. Now, the Office of Education has already recognized that it is very serious, and this area continues to be a social issue, and it is so easy to approach that now it is possible to make illegal adult products, so I heard that we are preparing for it by discussing measures together.

◆Park Gwi-bin: Yes, I see. You explained a little about the ordinance bill that contains the mandatory deepfake survey education. Let's move on to the second citizen report. As the senior deputy leader of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, I think the Seoul Metropolitan Council will talk about the current issues within the People's Power Party. What is it about?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: There are many complicated things, but as a Seoul Metropolitan Council member, we are working hard to create a productive council because the ruling and opposition parties cooperate well without getting caught up in political strife. Especially now, business owners and young people are having a hard time. In addition, we are trying to study ways to support in more detail. In particular, the Democratic Party has recently raised suspicions. There was a ship launching ceremony yesterday for the Seoul Han River Bus River. The mayor was so moved. It's been so hard. The Democratic Party of Korea attacked a lot and did a lot of things about it, so the process was very difficult, but during the launching ceremony yesterday, he was very overwhelmed and shed a little tears. So in the past, there was a lot of opposition to the Gyeongbu Expressway, Cheonggyecheon restoration, and bus transfer systems. But as we see it now, there are so many benefits that I'm confident that Rivers will be able to make such a great achievement in the future.

◆Park Gui-bin: You mentioned the launching ceremony of the Han River bus in Seoul as a new means of fisheries transportation. Then will this be operated now?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: Of course. Now we have a launching ceremony, and from some point on, if we start driving again, not only in the morning, but also in the time when we don't have commuting, we can use the river well when we travel around the world. We should make the Han River more accessible to foreigners and in Korea, it's almost full of land. So transportation is more active, but the most difficult thing now is accessibility. I'm working on a number of ways to get a better approach.

◆Park Gui-bin: I see. Representative Lee Sung-bae recently came out. So, instead of political strife, the lawmaker also said that we should make the Seoul Metropolitan Council a win-win venue. Senator, you're emphasizing cooperation in the same direction. Please tell us what you think about cooperation in the second half of the legislative activities.

◇Lee Kyung-sook: When we look at the National Assembly, the people are so sad to see political strife and such consumption, that we will be shunned by citizens if we keep going like this. So, we are now working with the Democratic Party of Korea to create a more productive parliament by checking and monitoring the city well and suggesting alternatives through administrative audit and standing committee activities.

◆Park Gui-bin: Have you talked to Democratic Party lawmakers? Did you say that there was a place like that?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: There is no special seat, but Rep. Sung-jae and Rep. Sung-jae, the current party leader, worked together on the standing committee in the first half of last year.

◆Park Gwibin: Did you?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: That's very good. You can't change any issues or philosophy about political parties, but I think they're the same when it comes to Seoul citizens. I think it's ridiculous to ask us to stop our efforts again on the part that makes citizens' interests and citizens' lives lower.

◆Park Gui-bin: Everyone has a consensus on the most important part of looking at people's livelihoods, so they feel the same way. In the second half of the year, we will look forward to some communication and cooperation from the Seoul Metropolitan Council. The third citizen report is. I think it would be nice to talk about your constituency. Dobong-gu, Parliament Dobong-gu is your local area. I think you already have four terms of experience in Dobong-gu Council and know better than anyone else on current issues.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: Dobong-gu is actually a bit remote in Seoul, but the mayor of Seoul has made great efforts for balanced development, so GTX-C has already started. The AI Science Museum has already opened a while ago, and art galleries have come in, so we are working hard on balanced regional development. So what has become an issue recently is that we are now working on various developments to make the underground Gyeongwon Line and Changdong Station underground.

◆Park Gui-bin: The most important thing for people to do in their daily lives is transportation, so you mentioned that there are big urban development projects such as GTX-C, Ui-Shinseol extension line, Changdong Minja station, Seoul Arena, and complex transfer center. Especially since you're a member of the Transportation Committee, I think you'll take a closer look at that. What do you think?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: The part I applied for was actually now an education teacher.

◆Park Gwibin: Were you a teacher?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: But rather than education, local issues are very serious traffic issues and various developments are linked to traffic, so I'm working on one thing as the Transportation Committee. I've solved a lot.

◆Park Gui-bin: I see. You have a lot of things to do in the future, and what subject was it?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: I majored in painting, so I was an art student.

◆Park Gui-bin: He was an art teacher. Are you good at drawing? What grade did you teach?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: I taught all the first, second, and third graders at school. I was a teacher in middle school.


◆Park Guivin: So you lived in Dobong-gu?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: No. I did it in Changnyeong, South Gyeongsang Province.

◆Park Gui-bin: I'm also very curious about the story of how you became an art teacher who majored in painting in Changnyeong, Gyeongsangnam-do, and became a Dobong-gu lawmaker for the fourth term. Can you briefly organize it in about 30 seconds?

◇Lee Kyung-sook: I had a senior lawmaker. Now, she asked me to do a women's movement, so half of the world is women, and I started it because we thought we should do a women's movement and improve women's rights and interests.

◆Park Gui-bin: But how did you come to Seoul instead of Gyeongnam?

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: I have settled down in Seoul now and my hometown is Seongju, North Gyeongsang Province. I graduated from Yeungnam University and worked as a teacher in Gyeongnam.

◆Park Gui-bin: That's how you're doing your legislative activities. What is he doing at the Seoul Metropolitan Council?

◇Lee Kyung-sook: He is old now, so he is retired now and doing well in the neighborhood.

◆Park Gui-bin: I asked you because of him, our lawmaker is here because of his proposal. He's a great person, so I asked him.

◇ Lee Kyung-sook: Yes, he's a very good person. I think so. He is also the 12th and 13th proportional representatives of the National Assembly.

◆Park Gui-bin: I see.

◇Lee Kyung-sook: He's a very big person. She's very different about women's policy, especially in this era when women have to do it, and she's a person who emphasizes the importance of heavy responsibility.

◆Park Gui-bin: That's right. You are working with such a person. As Seoul Metropolitan Councilman Lee Kyung-sook talks like this, we have one last question. This is a question I always ask when lawmakers come from the Seoul Metropolitan Council. Seoul Metropolitan Councilman Lee Kyung-sook's legislative icon is ○○○. They have a hard time filling in this ○○○. Any political philosophy and beliefs go in, so how do you fill it?

◇Lee Kyung-sook: I'm a fixer. I'll get all the complaints from the troubleshooter neighborhood, and I'll melt them and solve them all now. So, starting with family life, from getting a job to complaints to where to go to the hospital, we realized it for a long time. As a result, I thought that it would be solved if everyone in the neighborhood came to me and told me, so I had no choice but to do it all-round, and it was possible because I stayed for a long time.

◆Park Gui-bin: I see. I hope that our troubleshooter, Lee Kyung-sook, will solve all the complaints of Seoul citizens in the future. Until now, Lee Kyung-seok, the senior vice representative of the People's Power of the Seoul Metropolitan Council, was a member of the Seoul Metropolitan Government. Senator, thank you very much.

◇Lee Kyung-sook: Thank you.