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President Moon Jae-in appointed Lee Yong-gu Vice Minister of Justice on the 2nd. Photo shows Vice Minister Lee’s comments at a briefing on the extermination of preferential treatment for the entire legal profession held at the Office of the Senior Prosecutor in Seoul in Seocho-dong, Seocho-gu, Seoul, when he was serving as head of the Ministry of Justice on March 17, 2020. [연합뉴스]
On the 2nd, the Blue House appointed a lawyer Lee Yong-gu (56, 23rd Judicial Research and Training Institute) as the new Vice Minister of Justice. Two days have passed since Deputy Justice Minister Koki-young expressed his appreciation against the disciplinary committee against Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol.
Lee Nae-jeong was born in Yongin, Gyeonggi-do, and was a judge who graduated from the Daewon High School Seoul National University Law Department. It has been 60 years since Vice Minister Kim Young-hwan, a former judge in 1960, was appointed a non-professional former minister to the Vice Minister of the Ministry of Justice. In August 2017, he was the first non-prosecutor to be appointed head of the legal department, a key position in the Ministry of Justice, and worked for two years and seven months.
This nominee was a key member of the Korea Law Research Association, a group of progressive judges when he was a judge. In 2003, during the Roh Moo-hyun administration, a criticism of “recommending a candidate for the Supreme Court on seniority only” was posted on the court’s internal notice board and spearheaded the ‘fourth judicial wave’ in which judges in charge rotated the signature panel.
Subsequently, the court administration took over the judicial reform of the Roh Moo-hyun administration, which reduced the power of prosecution, such as that centered on the court. He is classified as a reformist in the prosecution, working in the last son-in-law of the prosecution and in the group promoting the legislative implementation of the reform. A lawyer who was a former senior law judge said: “I am not very progressive, but I am quite an expert in the judicial system, having done a lot of work related to prosecution reform during the Roh Moo-hyun administration.
Lee Kwang-beom, a former Korean Legal Research Association, worked as a representative attorney at LKB Partners, a law firm established by the Korean Legal Research Association, and was appointed as the legal representative of the impeachment committee of the National Assembly in the 2016 impeachment time for former President Park Geun-hye. During the last presidential election, Moon Jae-in was classified as a member of the current government while working for the electoral countermeasures committee. He was mentioned as the first legal secretary of the Moon Jae-in administration, and recently, he was appointed as the first chief of the airlift, Haapyeong, as head of the launch preparation team of the criminal investigation bureau of civil servants of high rank.
However, there are mixed expectations about how this nominee will organize Yun’s disciplinary committee. An attorney who was a former vice president judge said, “A friend who has high aspirations and greed for public office” and said, “It will be more difficult for Yoon to face him while attacking Yun in a more sophisticated way than now.” On the other hand, a lawyer from the Association of Lawyers for the Democratic Society (Minbyun) said: “As the former deputy minister rejected the disciplinary committee itself, it seems that he nominated this candidate. It was a difficult situation for everyone ”.
Two houses in Gangnam … The result of an urgent proposal?
In March, it was discovered that this candidate had the greatest wealth in the Ministry of Justice. He owned two apartments in Gangnam, including the Seocho-dong Seocho Raemian apartment (1.16 billion won) and his spouse’s Dogok-dong Samik apartment (720 million won). The total amount of deposits for him and his wife, mother, and children was approximately 1.6 billion won, and the 2017 Grandeur (25 million won) and 2016 Audi A6 (18 million won) were reported. The total fortune was 4.08906 million won.
At that time, the government recommended that the price of real estate be stabilized, except for a house for royal residence purposes. At the time, Lee Nae-jeong and Kim Jo-won, executive director of the Blue House, owned two houses in the three districts of Gangnam. Former chief Kim retired in August without getting rid of the house and was criticized for “choosing two houses instead of the Blue House.” Since then, the Moon Jae-in administration has said that it has confirmed its intention to ditch just one house, questioning whether it is a person with multiple households saluting at the vice minister level. However, in the case of this nominee, there is no such explanation from the Blue House side, and it is speculated that “Is it not possible to properly filter whether or not a person with multiple households is due to an urgent loan appointment? ”
The Ministry of Justice expects Yoon’s disciplinary committee to be held on the 4th as scheduled, as the candidate has held the post of vice minister. The Blue House has issued an internal judgment that President Moon Jae-in will execute the outcome of President Yoon’s punishment as is. However, as President Yoon denies all his disciplinary charges, he is expected to face the court again with a request for stay of execution and an administrative lawsuit if dismissal or dismissal is decided.
Reporter Lee Ga-young [email protected]
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