Two Agencies Under Bucheon City Found Engaged in "Systematic Mismanagement"

Two agencies under Bucheon City in Gyeonggi Province have been found to be operating improperly.

According to the city, the Bucheon Culture Foundation and the Facilities Management Corporation were flagged for severely poor management, including improperly hiring certain employees and awarding construction projects to specific companies.

The city's audit office has ordered the agencies to take personnel actions against relevant employees, including major disciplinary measures, minor disciplinary measures, admonishments, and warnings, as well as to recover or collect tens of millions of won from related companies.

In the case of the Culture Foundation, when publicly recruiting employees in the broadcasting business sector last year, preference was to be given to those with relevant experience. However, an employee with no relevant experience was hired. Additionally, during the hiring of dozens of employees from November 2008 to July 2010, the executive director arbitrarily selected employees without clear criteria for the first document screening, and for the second interview, the interview committee was composed only of internal personnel without external participants, leading to the hiring of specific individuals.

The Facilities Management Corporation also improperly managed personnel matters, including declining employee morale due to delayed promotion decisions, failure to implement rotation work contrary to parking management staff rotation rules, and passive notification of employee misconduct to the personnel committee, which resulted in reduced disciplinary measures.

The agencies also incurred losses of tens of millions of won through excessive overtime allowances and holiday work allowances paid to some employees, budget losses due to private contracts when certain amounts of subcontract construction should have been put to competitive bidding, and failure to conduct defect inspections on subcontract construction.

The city conducted a comprehensive audit of these agencies from July 26 to September 10.