"Are You Really Working Without Pay?" Bae Hyun-jin Takes Aim at Park Jin-young, Who Will Ultimately Testify in a Parliamentary Audit

[Financial News]  Park Jin-young, co-chairman of the Presidential Committee on Popular Culture Exchange under the president and chief producer at JYP Entertainment, has been selected as a witness for next month's parliamentary audit by the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee of the National Assembly.
The Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee held a plenary session on the 29th and approved the selection of 15 general witnesses, including Park Jin-young, and 17 reference witnesses. Park will appear as an institutional witness at the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism's parliamentary audit on October 7, where he is scheduled to provide a report on the committee's work and answer questions.
Lee Jae-jung, chair of the committee and a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, said, "Chairman Park has shown a firm willingness to communicate with members of the Culture, Sports and Tourism Committee and has expressed his intention to appear before the committee in person. Since he conveyed that he wanted to appear as an institutional witness rather than a reference witness and provide the public with a detailed report and explanation of the committee's work, we agreed to designate him as a witness."
Earlier, Bae Hyun-jin, a lawmaker from the People Power Party, demanded that Park appear at the parliamentary audit while raising questions about his "unpaid activities" and allegations that JYP Entertainment had filed exclusively for the trademark rights to a government performance project.
On the 24th, she alleged preferential treatment, saying, "The Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism gave JYP exclusive rights to the overseas trademark for a large-scale performance project, Fanomenon, that it had decided to carry out on a large scale with 15 billion won."
In response, the committee explained, "JYP Entertainment is proceeding with a priority application to secure brand rights quickly in overseas markets," adding that the overseas trademark rights would be transferred to a dedicated corporation.
However, Bae said it "does not add up" and signaled that she would press the issue hard, stating, "We need to determine whether public money is being used for overseas business trips and private business activities. There has even been talk of volunteer work without pay. I will also verify the payment records to date." 
Meanwhile, the committee finalized Julie Choi, CEO of TVING; Kwang-hyun Kim, Naver's chief data officer (CDO); Reginald Shawn Thompson, CEO of Netflix Services Korea; and Jongmin Jeong, CEO of CJ CGV as witnesses in its investigation into the circumstances surrounding a personal data leak. Han-jin Chun, former secretary general of the Korea Football Association, was included on the witness list in connection with allegations of preferential treatment in approving efforts to host an international sporting event.
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