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On the 18th, the Supreme Court announced a list of 155 candidates for the appointment of judges with more than 5 years of legal experience. Among them, 15 were regular prosecutors, a record, the Supreme Court said. It is known that more than 60 practicing prosecutors have met since the hiring of this career judge, which began in April, and there is also a saying within the prosecution: “Isn’t it a precursor to the exodus of the prosecution by the ‘ looting of the prosecution ‘of the government? “
According to the Supreme Court, the number of former prosecutors has increased significantly from 1 to 3 in 2018 to 15 this year from 4 in 2018 and 7 last year, from 1 to 3 annually since the first system of hiring experienced judges was implemented. In the last three years, prosecutors are increasingly changing jobs as judges, but it is unusual to leave the prosecution on a large scale like this, both inside and outside the prosecution.
In the list of selected candidates of the prosecution, Shin-ae Lee, who was sent to the Drooking Special Prosecutor and investigated Gyeongnam Governor Kim Gyeong-su, Uijeongbu District Prosecutor’s Office Hae-cheol Hwang, who graduated with top marks from the Judicial Research and Training Institute, and the Suwon District Attorney of Justice who was selected by the excellent human rights prosecutor Kwon Seul as an excellent Suwon district prosecutor, who was selected by the Ministry of Human Rights Kwon Seul. Etc. Prosecutor Kim Jo-won, the son of former Blue House Chief Min Jeong-gu, Seo-Hyun Kim was also on the list of successful candidates. All of them are prosecutors born in the 1980s, and are evaluated as ‘elite young prosecutors’ who have accumulated some experience after going through three or four assignments. A prosecution official said: “Prosecutors who are considered ‘excellent resources’ in each prosecution have been leaked, which is very regrettable for the prosecution.”
It is noted that this phenomenon was influenced by the Ministry of Justice’s continued measures to ‘shake up the prosecution’, such as a “ water change ” to bring down prosecutors investigating suspicions of government corruption, and a reorganization that neutralizes the function direct investigation of the prosecution. Some analysts say internal prosecution concern that the state of the prosecution will decline rapidly due to the adjustment of the prosecutor’s right to investigate the indictment and the establishment of a criminal investigation bureau of high-ranking public officials (department of airports) . A prosecution official said: “The prosecution has repeatedly crushed government investigations under the name ‘prosecution reform.’ Who would want to stay in the prosecution organization?”
Prior to this, the departure of prosecutors began early, as the “line resignation” of front-line prosecutors who rebelled against the prosecutor’s office three times after the inauguration of Minister of Justice Chu Mi-ae . It is expected that Kim Nam-woo, former deputy prosecutor of the Dongbu District Prosecutor’s Office, who led the case of “ returning to the army ”, the son of Minister Chu, and Lee Seon-wook, the former deputy prosecutor of the Chuncheon District Attorney’s Office, who was evaluated as the “ first place ” among classmates from the Judicial Research and Training Institute, joined last month. A deputy prosecutor said: “At the big law firms, even the word ‘a good crop of talent’ is getting out. On the contrary, the prosecution’s ability to investigate continues to decline, “he said.” There is great concern within the prosecution. “
Some people in the legal profession say, “The strength is that a judge can work much more smoothly than a prosecutor, so young prosecutors change jobs one after another.” This is because the high-ranking judges were prosecuted for abuse of authority during the 2017 Supreme Court Chief Yang Seung-tae’s abuse of authority case, and the “ instruction ” itself. itself is taboo within the court. An official in the legal profession said: “Since no one interferes with the work of the trial, there is a story that the judge is the ‘best welfare job.’
