[아주경제 오늘의 뉴스 종합] Proposal for 'private financial compensation'... Korea-Japan summit meeting under watershed, etc.

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Proposal of ‘compensation of private funds’… Korea-Japan summit meeting under watershed

Ahead of the first Korea-Japan summit in two years and nine months, at a foreign ministers’ meeting held in New York on the 19th (local time), the ROK agreed to compensate for private financial resources in which companies from both countries participate as a solution to the problem of compensation for forced labor mobilization by Japan. is known to have proposed. It is expected that the holding of the summit will be affected depending on whether the Japanese government accepts it.

According to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Foreign Minister Park Jin and Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi had a 55-minute meeting at a hotel in New York at 4 pm on the same day. After the meeting, Minister Park met with reporters and explained, “The two sides have decided to make sincere efforts to improve relations between Korea and Japan.”

On the other hand, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan said in a press release that “Foreign Minister Hayashi delivered a consistent stance on the Japanese side.” The Japanese side’s ‘consistent position’ is that the compensation issue was completely resolved through the 1965 Korea-Japan Claims Agreement, etc., and the South Korean Supreme Court’s judgment on compensation in 2018 is a matter that the Korean government must resolve on its own.

尹Government Recognizes Nuclear Power Plant ‘Environmentally Friendly’… Including K-Taxonomy Dengeki

The Ministry of Environment has included nuclear power generation in the green classification system, which is the standard for ‘eco-friendly economic activities’. In December last year, the guidelines that excluded nuclear power plants were changed for the first time in nine months. Unlike the Moon Jae-in administration, it is in line with the policy of the Yun Seok-yeol administration, which puts the development of the nuclear power industry as a national task.

On the 20th, the Ministry of Environment announced the revision of the green classification system (K-taxonomy) including nuclear power plants. The amendments include small module reactors, next-generation nuclear power plants that produce and supply electricity while minimizing radioactive waste, accident-resistant nuclear fuel (ATF), radioactive waste management, research reactors, space/marine micro-nuclear power plants, nuclear fusion safety and seismic performance improvement. All activities related to research, development, and demonstration of core technologies to improve facility reliability were included in the ‘green sector’.

In addition, activities that build and operate facilities that use nuclear power to produce and supply electricity or heat (new nuclear power plant construction) and activities that remodel facilities for the purpose of continuous operation of nuclear power plants after the design life has expired (continuous operation of nuclear power plants) are the ‘conversion sector’ classified as ‘.

檢, Doosan Group search and seizure related to Lee Jae-myeong

Prosecutors investigating the ‘Seongnam FC sponsorship allegation’ have launched a compulsory investigation into the Doosan Group headquarters. According to the legal community on the 20th, the 3rd criminal division of the Seongnam Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutor’s Office (Director Min-jong Yoo) sent investigators to the headquarters of Doosan Group in Jung-gu, Seoul on the same day to secure related data such as servers. Earlier, on the 16th, it was reported as an extension of the search and seizure of 20 places including Doosan E&C, Seongnam FC, and Seongnam City Hall offices in Gangnam-gu. This is the first time the Doosan Group headquarters has been raided.

The allegation of the Seongnam FC sponsorship is that, while serving as the mayor of Seongnam, Lee Jae-myung, the leader of the Democratic Party, was the owner of Seongnam FC and received 16 billion won in donations from Doosan and Naver from 2014 to 2016 and provided conveniences such as building permits to companies. Last year, the Bundang Police Station dismissed Lee as not guilty and dismissed it. However, the police, which re-investigated the allegations, notified the prosecution on the 13th that they were charged with bribery to a third party against CEO Lee and one public official from Seongnam City.

“The statute of limitations has passed” … Police reject allegations of sexual favors from former CEO Lee Jun-seok

Regarding the allegation that former People’s Power Representative Lee Jun-seok received sexual favors, the police concluded that there was no right to prosecute. The anti-corruption and public crime investigation team of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency announced on the 20th that it has decided to dismiss the allegations related to former CEO Lee. This is because the 7-year statute of limitations for mediation under the Act on Aggravated Punishment for Specific Crimes has already passed and cannot be prosecuted.

Former CEO Lee has been accused of receiving various types of entertainment until around 2015, including two sexual payments in 2013. Garosero Research Institute, which raised such suspicions, filed a complaint against Lee in December of last year. IKAIST CEO Kim Seong-jin, who was accused of providing sexual favors to Lee, also claimed that Lee received money and entertainment, including sexual favors, and arranged a meeting with former President Park Geun-hye in return.