Representative Park Ju-seon “Prepared to purchase North Korean refugee companies' products, enforcement decree and made zero cases for 19 years”

2019-10-15 13:11:13

After sending public relations memorandums to SMEs and cities and provinces in 2017, there were no official letters sent for two years, and even after 19 years of decree, the Ministry of Unification made a priority to purchase products made by businesses employing North Korean defectors.

It turns out that they didn't buy the product.

Article 17-5 of the current Act on the Protection and Settlement Support of North Korean Defectors stipulates that the Ministry of Unification shall endeavor to prioritize the products of exemplary employers who employ North Korean defectors.

The Decree of Article 35-5 of the Enforcement Decree of the Act defines employers who employ an average of five or more North Korean defectors annually as' model employers'.As a part of the policy in December 1999, as part of a policy to encourage North Koreans to settle in Korea,

Was first introduced.

However, according to the data submitted by the Ministry of Unification, Park Joo-sun, a member of the National Assembly's Foreign Affairs and Transport Committee, on the 15th, there has been no single product for North Korean refugees that the Ministry of Unification preferentially purchased.

In addition, the Ministry of Unification had actively requested public relations by sending a notification in October 17 that the support of priority purchase of North Korean defector products could be activated to the President of the Small and Medium Business Center and national cities and provinces.

Did.

As of end-December 2018, there were 14 exemplary employers who preferred to purchase more than five North Korean defectors.

The Ministry of Unification, however, did not buy their products.

The Ministry of Unification said that the products of these companies were not the priority purchase items, but "the items that can be purchased first are consumables such as office supplies and toilet paper, while the target companies produced products such as synthetic rubber, blinds, elevators, and textile products."

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It is a difficult item to buy because it did not buy first.

Rep. Park said, “Even though the government eased the requirement last year because of the strict requirements of the priority purchase system, North Korean defector companies still dealing with consumables such as office supplies and toilet paper that can be preferentially purchased by the Ministry of Unification

"There is only one place, and the system itself is not well known," he said. "In the future, the Ministry of Unification must promote North Korean defector employment companies with minimum requirements and actively promote the priority purchase system."