Bum-gye Park and Seok-yeol Yoon personnel consultation speed… Lee Seong-yoon’s replacement retreats for prosecution reform?

Justice Minister Park Beom-gye and Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol set out to coordinate with senior prosecutors over a discussion. After meeting on the 2nd, they plan to meet once more within this week. There is a lot of interest in the achievements of major positions such as the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office and the Prosecutor’s Office of the Ministry of Justice.

It is known that the general public said that Lee Seong-yoon (23rd Judicial Research and Training Institute), Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, and Shim Jae-cheol (27th), should replace the prosecutor’s office at the Ministry of Justice. Prosecutor Lee has always had a disagreement with President Yoon over the case of the government’s investigation, including the investigation of the Open Democratic Party representative Choi Kang-wook and the investigation of former Justice Minister Cho Kook.

Recently, it has been said that he has lost leadership even within the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. There are complaints about trying to screen and prosecute cases that suit the regime’s tastes. In December of last year, high-ranking officials of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office suggested the resignation of the District Prosecutor’s Office. At the time of his tenure as the anti-corruption and power department head of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, there are also suspicions that external pressure was applied to intercept the investigation of’Illegal Withdrawal of Kim Hak’ by Anyang Branch.

The airflow of the passport is different. Kim Jong-min, together with the Democratic Party’s Supreme Council member, said on MBC Radio that day, “it is not desirable to be a hard person.”

The appearance of Prosecutors’ Commissioner Shim Jae-cheol is also noteworthy.

Director Shim, who was regarded as the closest aide to former Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae, led the overall disciplinary process by acting as a prosecutor, judge, and witness following the first alleged informant and complainant in the disciplinary phase of President Yoon. It has also been reported that Minister Park actually gave’caution’, saying, “You have to be careful” when Shim drafted a personnel plan during the candidate status.

If replaced, Shim Woo-jeong (26th term), head of the Ministry of Justice’s Planning and Coordination Office, will be mentioned as the next head of the prosecution. Chief Kijo Shim is a representative ‘Planning Tong’ who has served as the prosecutor, prosecutor, and chief of the prosecution.

One prosecution officer said, “The former prosecutor’s office is the 24th training center, and three riders went down while Shim Jae-cheol took over. The prosecutor’s office is where the’Planning Tong’ instead of the’Strong Tong’ goes,” he said.

In a radio interview that day, when asked if Yoon requested the replacement of so-called “Chumiae Line” prosecutors, including Chief Prosecutor Lee, “I haven’t talked about such content,” Minister Park spared.

Reporters Kim Soo-min and Jung Yu-jin [email protected]