Again, in the parliamentary audit and inspection of the second-year Moon Jae-in administration, rival parties butted heads on the issues of the minimum wage hike and the income-led growth policy. This year, it looked like a parliamentary audit and inspection of 'Hong Jang-pyo' rather than of the Ministry of Employment and Labor held in the Government Complex-Sejong on October 11. Hong Jang-pyo who currently chairs the special committee on income-led growth, part of the Presidential Commission on Policy Planning, is known as an actual designer of the Moon Jae-in administration's income-led growth policy attended the parliamentary audit and inspection of the Ministry of Employment and Labor as a reference witness and grilled by lawmakers of the conservative opposition parties who claimed the income-led growth policy as an 'unverified policy' linking with the recent rising job loss rate.
reported by Bae Hye-jung
translated by Kim Sung-jin