Samsung Tribunal froze and slap, the fountain of the judiciary [노원명 칼럼]

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There are times when it is abominable to hear the members of the National Assembly standing in a meeting of the National Assembly calling’Respect for Representative 000′. Because I know I don’t respect my nails as much. But it’s not a blame. At this time, respect should be seen as referring to the divine power of legislation rather than individual members of the lawmaker. It’s good if you act more authoritatively by raising one another’s authority.

When I was much younger than now, I went to court and met several judges. There were judges with poor alcohol habits, while others lacked personal charm. However, most of them were gentle and gentle. Whether he is an injector or a gentleman, the prosecutors and lawyers in the courts profusely refer to them as’respecting your judge. There is no need to think too much about this. It is just respect for the justice that the judiciary should implement. It means’do it well’.

Even if society is degraded, it is better to leave at least one or two of the’final authority’. I think one of them is judicial. The controversy ends only when there is authority in the judiciary. The phenomenon of getting stuck in court rulings is a sign of an irreparable society. Korean society these days is very irreparable in that respect. Those who only accept favorable rulings are also a problem, but the judiciary, which fails to keep its authority, is also a problem.

There is nothing to say about the ruling on the ruling for the revocation of Samsung Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong in court. Since the Supreme Court destroyed and repatriated for the purpose of guilty, the possibility of imprisonment was high from the beginning. However, there is something to be said about the behavior of the court during the remand process.

At the first trial on October 25, 2019, Deputy Judge Jung Joon-young (presiding judge) said, “At the age of 51, Lee Kun-hee declared Shin Shin-young. What should be Lee’s declaration?” “Work confidently as the head of the company even during the hearing” ‘Admonished’. This admonition has never been seen or heard during the legal period. Judge Jung was born in 1967 and is one year older than Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong. As a judge in his entire life, he has never run a hole shop. You will never have hired anyone, never paid you a salary. Such a person asked the head of a global company, who competed with Apple and Google, and was responsible for the livelihood of hundreds of thousands of employees, and asked for Lee Jae-yong’s declaration and ordered the attitude of a proud head of the company. How should I look at this? Is it kind or not? Confidence or fractional oblivion.

It wasn’t just admonition. Vice-President Judge Chung proposed a’effective compliance system’ to Vice Chairman Lee of the defendant. Kindly, he added, “In the United States, if the compliance system is effectively operated, punishment will be lowered.” Right now, a progressive civic group came out as a problem. The Solidarity for Economic Reform pointed out, “Before the full-scale hearing, the presiding judge gave concrete advice on economics and management to the defendant from an entrepreneur, and that it is inappropriate remarks that could lead to a dispute on the fairness of the court in the future.” Special Prosecutor Park Young-soo filed an application to evade the court.

There is no defendant who won’t imitate it, though the judges coach it in a way that’you can look at it if you do this.’ Samsung launched the Compliance Committee. Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong made a private apology and promised not to take over management rights to his children. They also gave up union-free management. However, after another year, the court arrested Lee Jae-yong, saying, “The effectiveness of the Samsung Compliance Committee is ineffective.” It wasn’t what Samsung asked for, but after throwing up the idea of ​​the Compliance Committee and making it do so, he wiped his mouth out saying,’This doesn’t meet the standards I said. ‘Freeze and slap’ is a term used in this case.

No one knows how much Samsung will pay for the measures that the Court of Destruction and Repatriation has actually enforced on Samsung, and what boomerang will return to Samsung and the Korean economy in the future. There was no other reason for Samsung. Because the judge in charge wanted it. Because he held the leash. The chief judge of the Republic of Korea, who had never run a hole shop, intervened in Samsung, one of the world’s largest IT companies, the national economy, and our future. The results are really unpredictable.

Aside from arresting Lee Jae-yong, it is up to the judges to decide. Just follow the law and conscience. Lee Jae-yong’s revocation court of revocation trial did a job beyond his assigned position. You shouldn’t be admonished like that because you studied a little while in school or that you were in a powerful position. What we call a “respecting judge” is not only because the judge is a great being, nor is it because the judge is so great, or because he respects him, in the sense of encouraging conscience and fair interpretation of the law.

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