The blue whale lost 130 billion won,,,,,,, but the 'hundreds of millions of won salary and bonuses' remain unchanged.

Previously, the Yoon Suk-yeol administration announced in June last year that up to 14 billion barrels of gas and oil were buried in the East Sea and announced plans to pursue exploration, but after the National Oil Corporation conducted the first drilling over 47 days from the end of last year to February this year, no economically viable gas was found. Nevertheless, despite the Korea National Oil Corporation suffering a capital erosion state and incurring a loss of 130 billion won due to the 'Blue Whale Project,' senior executives' annual salaries in the hundreds of millions of won, performance bonuses in the tens of millions of won, and monthly business promotion expenses continue to be paid. Kim Dong-seop, president of the National Oil Corporation, received an annual salary of 137.87 million won and bonuses of 48.16 million won last year, and by August this year, he had received 94.4 million won in salary and 53.98 million won in bonuses. Standing Auditor Park Gong-woo and Executive Director Choi Moon-kyu also received 75.52 million won each from last year's annual salary of 110.3 million won by August this year, with bonuses reaching tens of millions of won. Other benefits will remain unchanged, and as of this year, the monthly allocation of executive business promotion expenses is 1.4 million won for the president, 1.3 million won for the executive auditor, and 900,000 won for the division head, allowing for additional annual payments of tens of millions of won. On the other hand, employees at grade 5 and below have an average annual salary of 53.63 million won, a 1.0% cut from the previous year, despite the failure of large-scale projects. Compensation is concentrated only at the top,,,, while lower-ranking positions are cut,,, What kind of awful structure is this??? Public enterprises operated with taxpayers' money are deceiving the public by applying the same principles across all potentially insolvent public institutions, so the wage system should be completely restructured to match performance and responsibility!!!!!