Judge Hong Soon-wook, who upholds his fate, emphasizes “the importance of due process” in the previous column.

The second lawsuit began between the Minister of Justice, Choo Mi-ae, and the attorney general, Yoon Seok-yeol. [뉴스1]

Sanction imposed by Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol in opposition to the two-month suspension of the Ministry of Justice Suspension of execution and All cancellation lawsuits were assigned to the 12th Administrative Division of the Seoul Administrative Court (Presiding Judge Hong Soon-wook).

The Seoul Administrative Court set the deadline for the request for stay of execution on the 22nd at 2:00 p.m. on the 22nd, requesting that disciplinary action be suspended before the decision on the main bill. The court’s first judgment on Yun’s discipline is expected to be held as early as evening or on the 23rd. If the court cites a stay of Yoon’s execution, President Yoon can return to his office immediately .

Judge Hong Soon-wook took over Yoon’s case through electronic dividends. The case cited on the 1st of the previous day was to be assigned to Deputy Judge Cho Mi-yeon. After graduating from Jang Choong High School and Korea University School of Law, Deputy Judge Hong was appointed as a judge in 2002 after becoming a naval judge.

Jeong Han-jung, the head of the prosecutor’s disciplinary committee, leaves the office of the Ministry of Justice after making the decision to suspend President Yoon Suk-yeol for two months in the early morning of the 16th. [뉴스1]

Deputy Judge Hong and a regular deputy judge, a motive from the Judicial Research and Training Institute, said: “A person who is prudent and rational, who has never revealed his political colors in the ordinary.” He and another judge who was motivated by the training institute also said, “Director Hong will judge only on the records, statements and evidence submitted by both parties.”

Judge Hong received a perfect score of 100 in the Seoul Deputy Council’s evaluation of excellent judges when he worked for the Seoul Central District Court in 2013. Among the judges working in Seoul at the time, Judge Hong and the judge Lee Chang-yeol were the only judges to receive a perfect score from the Seoul Council.

Deputy Judge Hong said in a column written in the Gyeongsang Ilbo while working at the Ulsan District Court in 2014: “In modern court proceedings, the correctness or incorrectness of a party’s argument is judged solely on the basis of the evidence. presented “. The strict basic principles established by the Constitution are applied, ”he wrote. He emphasized the importance of controversial due process in the current Yun case.

On the 30th of last month, lawyers Lee Wan-gyu (center) and Lee Seok-woong (left), lawyers of the Ministry of Justice, and Lee Ok-hyung (right), lawyers of the Ministry of Justice in the Administrative Court of Seoul, after the end of the interrogation date on the stay of execution. It is coming out. [뉴스1]

This year, Deputy Judge Hong, who has worked for the Seoul Administrative Court for three years, ▶ made the decision of the Park Geun-hye government to compensate government investigators for obstructing the activities of the Seoul’s special investigative committee. Sewol ferry. They got fired. In the case of an administrative complaint filed by prosecutor Eun-jeong Lim to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office prosecutor at the time, Yoon Seok-yeol, the central district prosecutor decided to dismiss the file.

The court greets a judge every three years, and Judge Hong is subject to the transfer of staff to the court early next year. Consequently, it will be difficult to conclude the case on the main case of the cancellation of discipline by President Yun.

Reporters Park Tae-in and Lee Soo-jeong [email protected]