1979, Manager Kim is Inheriting Dictatorship! - Chapter 110



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Episode 110

Even after President Kim Jong-guk left, lawmakers had different opinions about the campaign to keep their pledges.

There were divided opinions, with some saying that they were too busy to do this, while others said it was time to let the public know how many promises they were making and how they were being carried out.

Ultimately, it was decided to hold an extraordinary convention a week later to decide whether or not to implement it through a delegate vote.

Even among the lawmakers in favor, I thought that there would be far more people opposed if it were to go to a vote, but surprisingly, the vote passed smoothly with over 60% in favor.

A high proportion of delegates who voted in favor were local government heads, local council members, and their supporters.

Since they appear in the media less often than members of the National Assembly, they have had relatively fewer opportunities to make themselves known. However, if this were implemented, they would be able to actively promote the work they have done, so many of them voted in favor.

The decision was made in favor, and the only thing left was the method.

After a week of heated discussion, it was decided to use the Internet to inform people about the progress of their pledges.

Of course, it wasn’t a structure where politicians directly uploaded things to the Internet.

In the case of older politicians, they had never even touched a computer, and they were not yet familiar with computers. In addition, there was no verification process, so a separate organization was created within the party.

The structure was such that a pledge verification organization comprised of internal and external figures was created, and politicians would send data to that organization. The organization would review the data, and if it was confirmed to be true, it would be posted on the website; if not, it would be rejected.

So, after the first two weeks of data submission and verification, the opening of the website is finally approaching.

The name of the site is Gongyak.com.

The site itself was simple, but its content was extensive.

The main screen features a search bar where you can search for politicians, as well as a ranking based on their pledge fulfillment rate.

And when you click on a politician you want to see, you can see details about whether or not the politician will keep his or her promises based on the materials he or she submitted.

[Minjeonggi]

-Member of the National Assembly / Party Leader

-Local district / Guro-eul

-97 Election Promises / 32

-Long-term commitments / 14

Current achievement rate: 21.4%

1. Establishment of Seoul Digital Complex / Current Achievement: In progress.

Budget / 1.2341 trillion won.

Budget financing plan / Guro-gu: 120 billion won, Seoul City: 410.3 billion won, Central government: 703.8 billion won.

Expected completion date: 2004.

Details: A project that aims to transform the Guro Industrial Complex, which currently spans Guro-gu and Geumcheon-gu, into a digital complex based on the IT industry.

A significant portion of the budget will be recovered from tenants after the digital complex is completed, with around 90% of the budget being recovered from tenants.

2. Redevelopment of old housing in Guro-gu / Current achievement status: In progress.

Budget: … … .

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-Short-term commitments / 18

Current achievement rate: 61.1%

1. Improvement of treatment of firefighters / Current achievement: Completed.

Budget / 120.3 billion won.

Budget financing method / Fully government funded.

Details: Support for firefighter equipment.

Disclaimer of all liability in case of accidents involving traffic accidents or illegally parked vehicles when responding to an emergency situation.

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In this way, I was able to learn in detail about how the promises made by members of the National Assembly, local government heads, and local council members were being carried out.

And there was one thing unique about this site: you could post comments, something that wasn’t common at the time.

1. Improvement of treatment of firefighters

[Comment]

Kang Ho’s Dori: Thank you, Rep. Min Jeong-gi. Thanks to you, I don’t have to buy the equipment out of my own pocket anymore. And I used to worry about illegally parked cars every time I went out, but now I don’t have to worry about that anymore! Thank you so much.

In this way, you can leave comments on both sides, either complimentary or, conversely, critical.

The renewal of Gongyak.com is every three months.

Every three months, each member’s office, local government, or local assembly member submits additional information about items that are being added, in progress, or completed, and the information is updated on the site after verification.

If the data is not submitted, “Data not submitted” will be written next to the name, and in this case, if the non-submission continues without a valid reason, a serious penalty will be imposed on the nomination.

As soon as this site was launched, it created a nationwide sensation.

It was the hottest topic among the younger generation who were familiar with computers, but even the older generation who were not familiar with computers used to learn computers just to visit this Gongyak.com site.

It was natural for people to be interested, as they could directly see how the people they had chosen were working, and they even had the opportunity to leave comments and sometimes even reply to those comments.

Of course, this wasn’t all.

Ultimately, the biggest problem with these things was verification.

To avoid any issues with the fairness of external verification committee members, CEO Min Jeong-gi has set the direction to continue replacing verification committee members every year.

As expected, it was an action befitting of Representative Min Jeong-gi, who had led the party for several years without any word being spoken within the party.

And to some extent, it has also improved the problem of information only reaching certain generations.

Some older generations used to learn computers to look at Gongyak.com, but in fact, there were many more people who did not.

As it was not an era like 2023 where smartphones made it easy for older generations or the elderly to access information, we provided a service to place the content organized by Gongyak.com in local party offices for those people and send it to their homes as many times as they wanted.

The era has arrived where, if you really want, you can check how the politicians you elected are working.

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[The Korean Party’s pledge dot com has already had 1 million page views in just one month since its launch.]

[Now, we can know not only when the promise is complete, but also in the process of its implementation.]

[Gongyak.com brought about an unusual atmosphere, so Gongmyeongdang also hurriedly started to establish an organization to implement its pledges.]

It’s been exactly one month since the Gongyak.com website was created, but the response has been more positive than ever.

1 million page views.

It was really amazing that a site created by a political party received this much attention.

There was a time when so many people came in that the server became paralyzed.

At first, the members of the National Assembly were annoyed, but when they saw their work expressed in numbers and ranked according to their achievement rate, they naturally started working harder.

And of course, this was also the case for local government heads and local council members.

Rather, there were many more businesses that directly affected our daily lives.

In particular, local council members and small county governors who were known for quietly doing their jobs well in their neighborhoods gained national fame.

[Lee Cheol-gang, member of the Hamgyeongbuk-do Provincial Assembly. 98.3% of his pledges achieved over the past four years. Highest achievement rate among National Assembly members, local government heads, and local assembly members. Already known in his neighborhood as a quiet, hard-working person.]

Of course, there were also cases of the opposite.

[Osan City Mayor Kim Un-jung. 12.3% of pledges achieved over 4 years. Lowest among heads of local autonomous bodies nationwide. Most of the pledges are empty promises that are impossible to achieve. According to a source within the Liberty Korea Party, it is said that it will be difficult to get a nomination in this local election. There is a continuing opinion in the region that it was expected.]

By this time, whenever people gathered, this promise dot com was always the center of conversation.

Now they are respectable fathers in their late 30s.

Yoonseong, Heejae, and Sunho.

Although they now work and live in different places, they were friends who were born and raised in the same area from childhood until high school.

Now that we live in different places, it’s not easy to meet up, but we still make time to have a drink at least once a year like today and catch up with each other.

When the drinking party was in full swing, Heejae started telling a story.

“Hey, have you ever heard of a website called Gongyak.com?”

Yoonseong, who usually lives away from the computer, asks.

“Pledge.com? What is that?”

Sunho, who was grilling meat, scolds him, saying he doesn’t even know that.

“Yanma, don’t you know that? This is a website that the Korean Party recently created. Do you really not know? It’s a place that shows how well politicians’ promises are being kept, and how they got the budget and such.”

Yoonseong shakes his head and says.

“Oh, I don’t know. And it’s been a while since we last met, so why are we talking about politics? Let’s talk about something else. Something else.”

Yoonseong was someone who absolutely hated talking about politics.

Other politicians besides the president.

Especially since he was young, he had never seen politicians in his hometown keep their promises, and he did not trust any politicians other than President Kim Jong-guk.

But Heejae strongly tells Yoonseong that this is different.

“I’m telling you, it’s not just about politics. This site is really great. It shows how well our local congressmen are doing, and how well our district mayors are doing.”

Sunho also agrees with that statement.

“Hey, this won’t do. Let’s drink until here and then go to the PC room. I have to show this to Yoon Seong-i. He won’t believe me if he doesn’t see this. Let’s get up. I saw earlier that there was a PC room in the basement here.”

PC rooms, which had been popping up one by one since the late 90s, became even more prevalent in 1999.

Without experiencing the IMF crisis and as the economy grew, rather than the small PC rooms with a few dozen seats as in the past, large PC rooms with hundreds of seats, like the PC rooms of 2023, began to appear in many places.

Yoonseong tries to refuse by shaking his head.

“Oh, that’s okay. I don’t know much about computers… … .”

However, Sunho and Heejae took Yoonseong’s hand and left the bar and headed to the PC room in the basement.

“Oh, I said it’s okay… … .”

But since he’s already here, Yunseong somehow manages to turn on the computer, move the mouse, and type using the eagle typing method to access Gongyak.com.

“Public… drug… dot… com… … .”

A searched site comes up, but is it the right one? Yoon-seong, unsure, asks his friends sitting next to him.

“Hey, is this right? Korea Party’s pledge dot com.”

Heejae looks at Yoonseong’s screen for a moment and then nods.

But soon his eyes are fixed on his monitor screen.

“Oh, that’s it. Hey! What are you doing, Sunho! I told you to send it to Ullari at 6 o’clock!”

“Wait a minute!! We’re still running low on gas!!”

Their interest was no longer Gongyak.com.

Even though they are now both heads of households, the two of them have returned to their childhood and are absorbed in playing a computer game that is currently popular.

Yoonseong sighs and turns his gaze towards his computer.

“Ah, that’s enough. What am I talking about with you guys?”

Yoonseong leaves his friends behind who are obsessed with games and somehow clicks on Gongyak.com.

Then, as soon as you enter, your eyes are stolen by the person ranked 4th on the main screen.

“Oh, this guy… … .”

He was the district mayor of the district in which he lived.

Contrary to popular belief, not all politicians were doing their jobs.

I clicked inside and searched, and it turned out that this person was definitely contributing a lot to the things I had been experiencing.

‘Well, if I think about it, the district I live in is getting better little by little, even if it’s just a little bit… ‘

But as expected, the politicians in his hometown were a mess.

As expected, politicians back home were ranked at the bottom.

‘I knew it. These people… … .’

But then he realized.

Of course, there are incompetent politicians who do nothing as they wish, but at least there are people who work hard and quietly, like the mayor of their local district.

At least, even if other people don’t know, trust in the district mayor in which one lives has increased.

And since politicians who achieve poor implementation rates in terms of keeping their promises are subject to a large penalty in the next nomination round, it seemed like the aversion to politics that Yoon Sung had had until now was gradually disappearing.

He continued to browse the Gongyak.com website while his friends were engrossed in games.

‘There are quite a few good people… This person and that person are both good.’