President Lee orders "Urgent removal of illegal recruitment ads across Southeast Asia"

Lee Kyu-yeon, Senior Secretary for Public Relations and Communications at the Presidential Office, stated in a briefing at the Yongsan Presidential Office on the 17th, "President Lee Jae-myung has instructed the Korea Media and Communications Commission, the Korea Media and Communications Standards Commission, and the National Police Agency in connection with the Cambodia incident to urgently delete illegal job advertisements targeting not only Cambodia but all of Southeast Asia." Lee said, "This is because we believe that as crackdowns in Cambodia intensify, the destination of the lured advertisements may shift to other Southeast Asian countries," adding, "These organizations will closely monitor sites where illegal advertisements are exposed and report the results to portal operators and others." He continued, "The government has urgently formed a joint response task force (TF) including related agencies," and added, "Today, a consultative body including Naver, Kakao, and Google was also formed , and a full-scale autonomous review system has been activated." He continued, "Through this emergency deletion measure, we will ensure that no innocent citizens suffer harm," and said, "The number of job advertisements has not yet been tallied, and we are deleting them as they appear, and even in meetings, We will open the system in earnest and compile statistics," he stated. He added, "Basically, the Korea Communications Standards Commission is not functioning properly, and the review system is not being formally operated," ,,, "We are handling urgent issues through emergency reviews, just like during the last crackdown on illegal firearms. Basically, this is an administrative measure," he said.