One week of fate-Kyunghyang Shinmun prosecution reform



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The first recommendation of the candidate of the Candidates Recommendation Committee for the head of the Senior Officials Criminal Investigation Office (Public Investigation Service) ended on the 9th. It is reported that the ruling and opposition parties recommended two and four candidates, respectively, and the Korean Bar Association publicly recommended three candidates. The Candidate Appointment Committee of the Minister of Public Transport will hold its first meeting on the 13th to begin discussing the candidates. The rivalry between the opposition and competing opposition parties for the initiative on the establishment of airborne agencies is expected to intensify in earnest.

Lee Chan-hee, President of the Korean Bar Association, recommended Kim Jin-wook, Principal Investigator of the Constitutional Court (54, 21st Judicial Research and Training Institute), Lee Kun-ri, Vice Chairman of the National Committee on Rights and Interests (57 and 16), and Barun’s lawyer at Han Myeong-gwan Law Firm (61, 15) as candidates for Minister of Public Affairs. Revealed.




Senior Investigator Kim, a former judge, worked as a lawyer at Kim & Chang and has been serving as a senior investigator at the Constitutional Court since February 2010. Vice President Lee Geon-ri was a former prosecutor and served as the Changwon District Prosecutor’s Office and as Service and Court Manager of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office. In 2017, he served as president of the Special Investigation Committee 5 18 of the Ministry of National Defense. At that time, the Special Assistance Committee concluded that during the Gwangju Democratization Movement on May 18, 1980, martial law forces fired weapons at citizens from helicopters. An attorney was also a former prosecutor who served as the attorney general’s office for planning and coordination, and the Daejeon District Attorney’s Office, and was nominated for attorney general in 2013.

In addition, the members of the candidates nominated by the Democratic Party for Minister of Public Transport decided to recommend two men in their 50s as candidates for Minister of Public Transport. According to the members of the nominating committee, the two candidates were delivered as legal professionals with the qualification of lawyers before and after the twentieth period of the Judicial Research and Training Institute. They were known as lawyers and academic figures respectively.

People’s Power recommended four candidates. Ho-young Joo said, “I heard that the two recommendation committees each recommended two people.” One of them was confirmed as lawyer Seok Dong-hyun (60/15), who was previously the prosecutor for the Eastern District of Seoul. Also being discussed is Chan-sik Han, a lawyer who served as Seoul’s Eastern District Attorney (52/21).

Ex officio nominating committee members Jae-yeon Cho and Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae also have the authority to recommend, but the recommendation was not disclosed. At the first meeting on the 13th, the recommendation committee is expected to have a fierce discussion about about 10 candidates. If two finalists are nominated with the approval of six or more of the seven members of the nominating committee, President Moon Jae-in will nominate one of them. After that, after a staff hearing of the National Assembly, the chief of the airlift is appointed

Members of the opposition legislators of the Legislative Judicial Commission of the National Assembly visited the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office this day to verify the payment of special expenses and execution documents of the Ministry of Justice and the Prosecutor’s Office. The ruling party focused on verification work targeting Attorney General Yoon Seok-yeol and the opposition party targeting Chu. A week is expected in which the reform battles of the prosecutor’s office of the ruling and opposition parties with the establishment of the airlift will heat up.

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