President Moon Jae-in succeeded Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae and appointed Democrat Park Beom-gye. The photo shows CEO Choo Mi-ae (right) and supreme member Park Beom-gye shaking hands at the time of the Supreme Council of the Democratic Party held at the National Assembly in December 2017. yunhap news
On the 30th, President Moon Jae-in appointed Park Beom-gye, a former judge, as well as Democratic Party member Park Bum-gye and Senior Researcher Kim Jin-wook of the Constitutional Court as candidates for the Minister of Justice and Chief Officer of the High-ranking Officials Crime Investigation Office (KAI), respectively. In the wake of the’Second Round of Prosecution Reform’, the command tower was seated at the Ministry of Justice and the Ministry of Public Transport. In the “discipline of the prosecutor general,” the courts are on the defensive as they successively raise the hands of President Yoon Seok-yeol, but it means that they will continue to commit the “reins of reform” instead of reaching out “hands of compromise” to the prosecution.
Deep-rooted distrust of the prosecution
On this day, President Moon appointed all the judges who were former judges and made it clear that he did not prefer those who were former prosecutors. On the 26th, he apologized to the public for his return to the office of President Yoon, but he did not leave out the words, “I hope that the prosecution will be an opportunity to reflect on the exercise of fair and restrained prosecution rights.” The same is true of the mainstream perspective of passports. The Blue House and the Democratic Party have repeatedly urged the prosecution to reform themselves, but there is a strong distrust that the prosecution has put a brake on reform, such as prosecuting former Justice Minister Cho Kook. One of the Democratic Party members of the Democratic Party said, “For former prosecutors, organization-oriented thinking is always imprinted. Once the prosecution is an eternal prosecutor, the expectation that the former prosecutor will reform the prosecution is hopeless.” In this situation, President Moon seems to have given a generous score to the’pulse’ and’decision’ shown by’Judge Beomgye Park’. On this day, the Blue House announced the facts of candidate Park’s appointment, and said, “I look forward to completing the prosecution and legal reforms based on the insights, legal expertise, strong willpower, and reform mind that I have gained while working in the court, the government, and the National Assembly.”
Bum-gye Park, hot-tempered with reasonableness
In fact, Candidate Park has been empowering the prosecution reform drive with a “commissioned commission” such as a representative proposal for an amendment to the airlift law that would neutralize the opposition party’s right to veto recommendation of the airlift chief. Here, as a former judge, he has meticulousness and rationality, but when he has to fight, he also plays a part in his’hot-tempered’ personality that does not hesitate to collide with the other person. Candidate Park said, “I will listen to the voices of the people and complete the reform of the prosecution.” The appointment of the candidate Kim Jin-wook as the Minister of Public Transport was also a predicted procedure. This is because Moon’s preference was self-evident in the face of the choices of Kim Jin-wook, former judge and Lee Kun-ri, former prosecutor. Since it was born as a core institution for the reform of the prosecution, if you consider the symbolism as the first chief, it was as if the prosecutor had been excluded from the beginning. A member of the Democratic Party’s leadership said, “Isn’t everyone expected to go with Kim Jin-wook?” An official at the Blue House said on the day that “Candidate Kim is expected to contribute greatly to the investigation of power-type corruption without sanctuary and to establish itself as a fair and human rights-friendly anti-corruption investigation organization,” while maintaining the neutrality of the airlift.
However, Chu Miae was also a judge.
Of course, not all the former judges who have been appointed as heads of ministries or authorities have successfully completed their duties. The predecessor, Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae, is a clear example. After his appointment, Minister Chu continued to clash with the prosecution’s leadership and made a rupture sound, and the excessive invocation of command and enforcement of discipline made the entire prosecution organization turn its back on the regime. Choi Jae-hyung, who confronted the Blue House and the ruling party during the Wolseong nuclear power plant audit process after taking office as another’a former judge’, is also evaluated as a’failed person’ in the passport. By Lee Wan, staff reporter and Jeong Hwan-bong, [email protected]