I Became Park Jeong-ui’s Nephew - Chapter 267



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He became Park Jeong-ui’s nephew. – (267)

“Oh my, what a pain this is.”

“That’s right. If we just dealt with it, we wouldn’t have wasted the budget.”

“Should I just deal with it? Didn’t you say that I could deal with it if it caused trouble?”

“Stop it, you can’t do it without orders from your superiors.”

This is Daedeok-gun, and some men were having a suspicious conversation.

Their true identities are that of employees of the Central Intelligence Agency. They have a lot of work to do on a regular basis, but with the addition of one more target for special surveillance, they are only wasting budget and administrative power.

It costs money to feed and house a death row inmate who deserves to die, so do you think it would be free to monitor a specific person?

In fact, the biggest problem is that the administrative power of civil servants hired by the government is being wasted rather than money.

For example, if the police, who should be chasing after thieves, are fooled by prank calls and waste energy in the wrong place, administrative power is wasted and this becomes a burden on the country.

This is also the case; the special activity budget allocated to the Central Intelligence Agency this year is approximately 900 million won, of which approximately 700 million won is used for overseas dispatch and intelligence gathering.

It is literally a waste of tax money that the Central Intelligence Agency agents residing overseas are being mobilized to monitor specific individuals rather than collect national secrets.

And this is not just a Korean problem.

[There’s a shootout at school!! Come quickly!!]

[There’s a shooter at the school!! Five people were shot!! Are you listening?!!]

[A white man with a rifle shot 15 people!!]

In the United States, prank calls have recently caused trouble for not only the police but also the FBI.

A shooting incident was reported. Can we go out as if we were going on a picnic?

Police cars are loaded with all sorts of equipment and rush to the scene, and nearby hospitals are also fully prepared to treat victims in case of an emergency.

But what if this is a prank call?

It’s literally a waste of tax money on administrative power.

The FBI spends about $900,000 a year just tracking these prank calls, which is why the US imposes heavy penalties of up to five years in prison on prank callers.

However, the number of people who play around with the mindset that they won’t get caught continues to increase, and this time, a major accident has occurred.

[Is that the Korean Central Intelligence Agency?]

“Yes, who are you?”

[Hello. I am an employee of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Recently, threatening phone calls have been repeated in the United States, and I am calling because I have confirmed that the caller is from Korea.]

The Central Intelligence Agency was embarrassed.

I wonder if there’s something wrong with the idea of ​​Koreans making threatening phone calls to the United States.

No, it’s possible that the report itself was fake, but upon verification, the caller was identified as a Department of Homeland Security employee.

As it turned out, the FBI had spent $90,000 worth of administrative resources over the past two years to solve this case, but was unable to catch the culprit, so they turned the case over to the Department of Homeland Security.

As a result, the criminal’s origin has been confirmed to be Korea, and if this fact becomes known, it will be a national disgrace.

The Central Intelligence Agency promised the Department of Homeland Security to arrest the criminal, and the criminal was arrested 12 days after receiving a request for cooperation.

If the other party was really a terrorist, it could have been extradited to the United States, but the Central Intelligence Agency’s investigation confirmed that the perpetrator had simply made a prank call.

What kind of mess is this because of one crazy guy?

This incident cost 332 administrative personnel from both Korea and the US, and over 500 US police officers responded to the scene after receiving the report.

How should we handle this? It is an embarrassing case to reveal to the public, but the Central Intelligence Agency has decided not to turn this case over to the police.

***

“So, how much is the damage?”

“It is estimated to be around $200,000.”

“Was there no extradition request from the United States?”

“Yes, they said it was just a prank call so there was no need for extradition.”

This is the Daedeok County official residence.

I received a report from the Central Intelligence Agency.

The Central Intelligence Agency already has a lot of work to do, so where does this kind of scum come from to waste the country’s administrative power?

Besides, this incident occurred outside the country, so it couldn’t just be overlooked.

“What is the current level of punishment for prank calls?”

“The fine is 10,000 won.”

“Is that all?”

“yes.”

“Then let’s send him back to the US. This guy deserves to be beaten up.”

I decided to extradite the criminal to the United States.

Korea has no awareness of waste of administrative power, so the fines are relatively low, but the United States imposes a heavy sentence of 5 years in prison and a fine of $50,000.

Criminals who should be punished in the US, not in Korea.

The US Department of Homeland Security said it was unnecessary, but I paid the US $200,000 as an apology.

Are you going to just cover up the fact that American tax money was wasted on some crazy guy living in Korea? Get rid of it by the roots before any weird talk comes out later.

[The culprit was revealed to be unemployed]

[I’ve been making prank calls here and there for the past two years]

[USA – Waste of Korean administrative power, damage amount is about 200,000 dollars]

In this way, the incident was revealed to the whole world.

This episode shook Korean society, which lacks awareness of prank calls, and the National Assembly decided to take this opportunity to raise the level of punishment for waste of administrative power.

Making a prank call can result in a fine of 200,000 won and up to 7 years in prison, and the cost of dispatching the police is also covered.

If you make a prank call like this, you are brainless. Moreover, in Korea, the dictator’s sword is still sharp, so no one would dare make a prank call.

In this way, the police’s administrative power maintains tight security.

But waste of administrative power was occurring everywhere.

***

[How much did you get paid this year? Huh?]

“Why should I tell you that?”

[You eat and live off the taxes we pay?!! What are you saying when the people demand it?!!]

This is Daedeok County, and civil servants are suffering from repeated malicious phone calls every day.

The petitioner’s protest started one day,

After looking into it, it turned out that the petitioner had been levied 7.5 million won for unpaid taxes.

I’m making a fuss by continuously calling the relevant authorities to vent my anger, saying that I need to know how well you guys are eating and living off my money.

However, in Korea, there is a provision that civil servant salaries are not subject to disclosure.

If civil servant salaries are made public, isn’t it obvious that the public will make a fuss about whether it is too much or too little?

It was not good for boosting the morale of civil servants who were responsible for running the country, so the head of state kept civil servant salaries secret while he was president.

So, the public is showing more and more interest in civil servant salaries.

There are rumors that the treatment is better than that of an average salaried worker, but there are also rumors that the salary is relatively low.

So do you really need to know that?

Civil servants who had been enduring malicious complaints clung to the head of state.

“There has never been anything like this when the President was president.”

“We also need to earn money to have the motivation to work, but every time people call us rice bugs, our motivation drops. Why should we work for the country while hearing such insults?”

“Civil servants’ salaries should be kept confidential to boost morale.”

What the people want from civil servants is to work hard while receiving little.

But isn’t it historically proven that Joseon, which ran its bureaucracy like that, collapsed due to corruption?

It is questionable whether disclosing civil servant salaries is in the public interest.

Eventually, several lower-level civil servants disclosed their salary details.

[Look carefully, the average income in Korea is 1.1 million won, but the lower-level civil servants earn a little over 800,000 won. They say that if you reach Grade 5, your envelope gets thicker, but how many years do you think it takes to get to Grade 5? Most people retire without even reaching Grade 5.

Yet, the majority of the work is done by lower-level workers, and we hear ridicule for working hard and earning a living off of government funds.

If you’re a civil servant, you have to be loyal to your country?

Who would want to work in this environment?

Let me be frank. I won’t ask for a lot of money, so don’t make any weird complaints. The administrative power that is wasted every year because of such malicious complaints exceeds 190 million won.]

This content caused a huge storm in Korea.

There are conflicting opinions, with some saying that those who live off of the people’s taxes are threatening the people and others saying that they should not be harassed too much because the pay is lower than expected.

But what is clear is that an administrative vacuum is occurring due to malicious complaints and workload concentrated only in lower-level positions.

How long will Korea rely on a structure that exploits low-level workers for cheap?

If you’re going to make them work a lot, the right thing to do is to pay them a lot of money. And there’s no need to pay a lot of money to higher-ranking employees who don’t even do any work.

A problem that should have been addressed at some point,

Ultimately, the matter fell into the hands of the head of state.

***

“Raise the annual salary of civil servants in grades 9 to 7 by 200,000 won each.”

“But, Your Majesty, can the government afford that?”

“Why don’t you just do it with my own money? Just pay a little more in taxes. And give honorable retirement to high-ranking government officials who are just sitting around doing nothing.”

“All right.”

This is the Daedeok County Government Office, and I promoted large-scale civil service reform.

It is natural to punish those who do not do their work, and it is acknowledged that there are incompetent people among public officials.

But if the civil service organization is criticized and shrinks because of those few people, will the country run properly?

It is the role of a leader to keep those people alive, and because I did that well, I lived without ever experiencing an administrative vacuum even when I was president.

Everyone encouraged him to do well and he was paid a good salary, but when he stepped down as president and became head of state, he left those things to the prime minister.

While average annual income in Korea has increased by 30% over the past decade, civil servant salaries have increased by only 21%.

Is this correct?

The government should take care of this, but how did civil servants end up writing petitions to me?

I summoned Prime Minister Kim Jong-pil and severely reprimanded him.

“We gave you an additional 90 billion won last time, but where did you spend all that money?”

“That… was invested in welfare policy.”

“But why are civil servant salaries at their current level? In order to administer, you have to pay attention to boosting the morale of civil servants. As welfare policies are expanded, civil servants have more work to do, right? Doesn’t this only increase the workload of lower-level civil servants and create an administrative vacuum? Can you still call yourself the head of civil servants?”

The rebuke was broadcast live across the country.

No one will say anything about welfare policies.

The problem is that the ones actually executing this are civil servants, and as the size of the government expands, the burden on civil servants also increases, but the higher-ups don’t know that.

Korean society is accustomed to achieving results by simply manipulating subordinates.

I have consistently led wage increases to break that structure.

But since the government is not keeping up, the wage gap between company employees and civil servants continues to widen. But that doesn’t mean I haven’t paid taxes to the government.

Last year, we gave 1 trillion won, and because that was not enough, we added 90 billion won, but why is it like this?

This left the Prime Minister with no choice but to be reprimanded.

Ultimately, this incident led to Kim Jong-pil’s resignation as Prime Minister, and the public sector pledged loyalty to the head of state, not the Prime Minister or the people.

“After all, the only one who takes care of us is our enemy.”

“You can’t trust anything else.”

An undesirable development in a democratic country,

But if the Prime Minister can’t do his job, what can I do? By recruiting even the administrative officials, I rose to a position equivalent to that of the President.