Seong-geun Lim’s transcripts released The secret story of Kim Myung-soo’s theory of’discovering lies’

[이데일리 최영지 기자] Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo faced the greatest crisis since taking office in September 2017. This is because he suffered a fatal blow in the truth game played over the process of rejecting the resignation of Busan High Court chief judge Im Seong-geun, who became the first impeachment prosecution in the history of the constitution. As Chief Justice Lim released the transcripts and the lie of Chief Justice Kim was revealed in an instant, Chief Justice Kim was in a position to worry about his career as the morality as well as the responsibility for damaging the trust of the judiciary.

Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo is going to work at the Supreme Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the morning of the 4th, when a ballot on the impeachment prosecution against Judge Lim Seong-geun, head of the Busan High Court, who was involved in’Judongnongdan. On this day, the lawyer of Deputy Judge Im Seong-geun released a transcript containing remarks that Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo refused to accept his resignation with the impeachment in mind. (Photo = Yonhap News)

On the morning of the 4th, Judge Lim released the transcript of the conversation with Supreme Court Kim last year through the media. Earlier, on May 22 last year, Vice-President Lim held a conversation with Supreme Court Chief Kim for 43 minutes on his or her resignation.

When Judge Lim asked for a resignation for health reasons, Supreme Court Chief Kim said, “It hurts that we didn’t know it for a day or two, and that our health was hurt.” But how much I hated being in court rather than dying.”

He added, “I will decide whether to accept the resignation or not, and until then, spend sick leave and take a rest.” He also said, “I am setting up (in the politics) to impeachment.

He added, “I don’t have the idea that it should be impeached,” he said. “Since the political and the situation are another matter, if the (resignation) is repaired, we will not be able to talk about impeachment.”

This contradicts the claim of the Supreme Court the day before that the Supreme Court Chief Kim’said the fact that he could not accept his resignation due to the impeachment issue’ was revealed.

Immediately after the transcript was released, Chief Justice Kim overturned his position in one day, saying, “I apologize for answering differently from the previous answer that relied on unclear memories of about nine months ago.”

When the transcript of Chief Justice Lim’s transcript was revealed, the lie of Supreme Court Chief Kim was revealed, and the judges could not hide their shock. A judge of the Finance and Economics Law said, “It is surprising that Supreme Court Chief Kim was caught up in a lie controversy, but I was also surprised that Judge Lim had recorded the transcript. No other person was present at the time of the interview, but how to view the situation at the time? It is difficult. It is also regrettable that the court becomes the subject of controversy every day.”

The legal and political circles are raising their voices, saying that Supreme Court Chief Kim should resign with responsibility for this situation. The power of the people said, “If the transcripts are true, Chief Justice Kim has already lost his qualifications as the leader of the courts and judges.” He emphasized that “if the conscience as a judge remains even a little, he will have to decide his move right now.”

Kim Han-gyu, former head of the Seoul Regional Bar Association, exclaimed, “It would not be that the Chief Justice and the judge frequently talk about impeachment, but it is not convincing to clarify that the memory is unclear.”

There is also an analysis that the Supreme Court President Kim and Deputy Chief Judge Lim, who had been from Yeongnam and had a strong relationship with seniors and juniors in college, crossed the’Rubicon River’ with this incident. Chief Justice Kim and Deputy Chief Judge Lim graduated from Busan High School and Jinju High School, respectively, and then graduated from Seoul National University Law School and were appointed as judges. Judge Lim is a two-year junior at the Judicial Research and Training Institute of Supreme Court Chief Kim.

Chief Justice Kim was nominated for the Supreme Court in 2017 and, ahead of a personnel hearing, asked Judge Lim for help to persuade close opposition party lawmakers to pass his appointment motion, and Judge Lim was known to have listened to it. Is known for being close to each other.

However, the relationship between the two began to crack as the suspicion of judicial nongdan floated on the surface. In 2018, Deputy Chief Judge Lim was also referred to the disciplinary committee by Chief Justice Kim for intervening in the trial of a baseball player Oh Seung-hwan. In the end, Deputy Judge Im was handed over to the prosecution and charged with intervening in the trial of Tatsuya Kato, former head of the Seoul Bureau of the Sankei Shimbun, and the National Assembly passed a proposal for impeachment. In addition, Vice-President Lim revealed the contents of an interview with the intention of rejecting the acceptance of Supreme Court Chief Kim’s resignation on this day, and their relationship was in danger of ending in a bad relationship.