Lee Jong-bae, 43, a surrogate driver living in Sillim-dong, Seoul, writes almost every night. When I go out of work around 7-8 pm and come back at dawn, I write until morning light. On days when I immerse myself in writing, I sometimes take a break from work, but I don’t like writing because I like it.
Representative Lee Jong-bae
Why did you become a’professional accuser’
Lee Jong-bae, who accused Vice Minister of Justice Lee Yong-gu on December 30 last year for violating the law on aggravated punishment for certain crimes, the CEO of the Solidarity of Action for Correcting the Rule of Law (Legal Refinement) entered the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul to investigate the accuser and reported his position. It is revealed on. yunhap news
Mr. Lee said, “I don’t feel good while writing, and on the other hand, it’s a messy writing.” Gameun is charged with crimes of powerful persons such as ministers, members of the National Assembly, judges, and prosecutors, and the recipient is the prosecution. His writing is an accusation. “It is a scam that a member of the National Assembly paid sick leave while traveling abroad.” On the 10th, while going home for Lunar New Year, he accessed the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office website. They filed an overnight complaint online and posted a press release. Minister of Culture, Sports and Tourism Hwang-hee was newly added to his accusation list.
The first time Lee wrote the accusation was in June 2019. This is when the National Teachers’ Workers’ Union (KTU) held a love song demonstration demanding the withdrawal of the disposition of the illegal union. In May of that year, he created a “public gathering for a fair society” with parents who argued for the improvement of the college admissions system, and insisted that incumbent teachers should be sanctioned because their love song demonstrations were illegal. But there was no action from the Ministry of Education. He accused Social Vice Prime Minister Yoo Eun-hye of punishment for abandonment. This is because Deputy Prime Minister Yoo thought he did not do his job. Since it was not desirable for parent organizations to sue and accuse, they created a new ‘Coalition of Acts to Straighten the Rule of Law’ (law sophistication).
Lee Jong-bae, CEO of the Solidarity for Action to Set the Rule of Law Right (legal refinement), is holding a press conference on the morning of May 20 last year, in front of the entrance of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul, in front of the front door of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, accusing elect Yoon Mi-hyang (currently a member of the Democratic Party of Korea). Mr. Lee said, “I think that Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Lee Seong-yoon is more passport-biased, so these days he goes to the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office rather than the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office.” News 1
After that, for a year and a half, there were about 70 accusations written under the name of law refinement, and about 30 accused. Among them, 8 cases were handed over to the actual trial, 9 cases were dismissed and handled without charges, and the remaining 53 cases are still under investigation as of the 12th. The charges range from ex officio abuse to job abandonment and defamation. Most of the accused are passport politicians, including former Justice Minister Chu Miae, Cho Kook, Lee Nak-yeon, Lee Tan-hee, and Yoon Mi-hyang, as well as Democratic Party lawmakers, and Open Democratic Party lawmaker Choi Kang-wook. Recently, Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo (last 9th) and Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Lee Seong-yoon (last 8th) also filed charges. The media introduced him as a’leftist sniper’.
- Isn’t that a lot of accusations?
- “The more problem is not to make the accusations that should be made, conscious of the public accusations of accusations.”
- Why should I be accused?
- “If the power is illegal, the damage is the responsibility of the people. Illegal conduct must be punished.”
- Have you ever accused a conservative person?
- “none.”
- It seems to be biased.
- “The forces that hold power and run the state now are the so-called leftists or Jinbo. I am a civic group activist, and I only monitor and check the power class.”
- When the conservative right comes to power.
- “Even now, the camp is not classified and accused. If a person in power commits illegality, they are prosecuted regardless of whether they are conservative or progressive.”
Lee Jong-bae, the representative of the Solidarity of Action (Legal Refinement) to establish the rule of law, spread false facts about the allegation of the so-called “probate confusion” of the Democratic Party’s representative Choi Gang-wook and Hwang Hee-seok, who held in front of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul on the afternoon of May 25 last year. He filed a complaint with the prosecution for committing illegal acts. The Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, Criminal Division 1 (Director Pil-Geon Byun), indicted Choi Kang-wook in connection with this case last month for defamation of dissemination of false information. News 1
Hwang Hee-seok, the top member of the Open Democratic Party, who was accused of defamation by Mr. Lee and was not charged last month, said on Facebook in May last year, “I don’t know what kind of people the law refinement is made up of and what they do (omitted). It looks like a group, and there are people behind the scenes who encourage and support them.”
- Are you sponsored?
- “I don’t take it. I don’t want to be criticized for filing accusations for making money.”
- So how do you pay for the activity cost?
- “There is no special cost for the accusation.”
- Some doubt the background.
- “There is no such thing. Most of them are aware of the incident by reading the media article. If the charges are clear, I will prosecute.”
- Are you proud if the accusation case leads to prosecution?
- “It’s bitter. If those in power obey the law and use their powers correctly, there is no harm to the people, and I can use my energy to do more valuable work.”
On May 4, 2017, on the arch bridge of Yanghwa Bridge in Seoul, Lee Jong-bae is making a high-altitude protest demanding the presidential election pledge to preserve the bar exam. Central photo
President Moon visited this tent and interviewed for about two hours in front of the house of President Moon Jae-in (at the time Democratic Party) in Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, as the representative of Lee Jong-bae’s meeting for the preservation of the bar exam in July 2016. . Lee Jong-bae shakes hands with President Moon. YouTube capture
Born in Seongju, Gyeongsangbuk-do and raised in Daegu, Lee graduated from Yeungnam University College of Engineering and prepared for the bar exam. My dream was to become a public defender who helps those who have difficulty getting legal advice. I started studying for exams in Gosichon in Sillim-dong from 2010, but there was no significant income. So, 2017, when the abolition of strabismus was scheduled, came. Mr. Lee thought that he had to do something for strabismus.
That’s why it was created as a ‘gathering student meeting for the honor of the bar exam.’ Since June 2016, he has been the representative of this group. In July of that year, President Moon Jae-in (the Democratic Party’s standing adviser at the time) had a tent in front of his home in Yangsan, Gyeongsangnam-do, and he met with President Moon for about two hours, asking him to make a pledge to preserve his sashimi. Just before the 2017 presidential election, he climbed to the top of the arch of Yanghwa Bridge, and came down with the persuasion of the then-liberal Korean Party candidate Hong Joon-pyo. I tried using extreme methods like fasting, but Sashi was abolished as scheduled at the end of that year. At that time, I felt a sense of sympathy with the parents who questioned the fairness of college admissions, such as the student department’s comprehensive admission (school type). The news that the government is pushing for absolute evaluation of all subjects with the reorganization of the SAT, the struggle for shaving with the parents was also immortal.
Lee Jong-bae, the representative of the Action Solidarity to Set the Rule of Law, is holding a press conference in front of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul on the morning of September 9 last year, accusing Minister Chu for violating the solicitation prohibition law regarding the suspicion of preferential vacation for the son of Justice Minister Chu Mi-ae. yunhap news
- Life is not normal.
- “I just want to create an extremely common-sense society in which people who work hard will be rewarded and profits from privileges and fouls will eventually be deprived.”
- You can achieve your dreams through law school.
- “The law school does not last long because it is a contradictory system that benefits only the privileged class.”
- Is strabismus resurrection realistically possible?
- “There are now members who are giving up. But if the country is normal, it will be resurrected.”
There are still criminal law books and casebooks on the desk of Gosiwon, where Lee lives, paying 270,000 won per month. Now, rather than studying, he said that when he writes an accusation, he expands it for legal review. If it is still not enough, he says to find and read related papers or contact a lawyer he knows for advice. Although it is tight to cover the living expenses with a surrogate driving income of about 1 million won per month, there is no plan to stop writing a complaint. He insisted that his accusation was “a pick-up for the rule of law, fairness, and justice.”
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