Park Ki-dong (50, Judicial Research and Training Institute 30th class, photo), Chuncheon District Prosecutor’s Office, Wonju, will join as an expert member of the Presidential Transition Committee (hereinfollowing referred to as the transition committee). According to the political circles on the 20th, the transition committee will be dispatched from the 21st to Park Ki-dong, the head of the branch office, and Jeon Mu-gon (49 and 31st), deputy prosecutor of the Ansan Branch of the Suwon District Prosecutors’ Office as expert members of the Politics and Administrative Judgment Division. They are in charge of designing and implementing the outlines of the Yoon Seok-Yeol administration’s judicial tasks in the judicial field.
Commissioner Park was dispatched to the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office Policy Planning Division in 2019 as the 3rd Chief of the Criminal Division of the Incheon District Prosecutors’ Office and worked as the 2nd Team Leader for Prosecution Reform Promotion. From August 2020, he worked together with President-elect Yoon Seok-yeol at the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, including moving to the position of Criminal Policy Officer. A native of Daegu, the branch chief Park Ki-dong graduated from Yeongnam High School and Korea University Law Department. After he passed the 40th bar exam, he served as the head of the Seoul District Prosecutor’s Office, the Unification Legal Division of the Ministry of Justice, the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office, the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors’ Office, 6th Detective Division, the Daegu District Prosecutor’s Office, Andong Branch, and the Incheon District Prosecutor’s Office 3rd Division.
In November 2020, when the then Minister of Justice Choo Mi-ae excluded Yoon-elect from the office of the Prosecutor General and requested disciplinary action, Park Gi-dong and Deputy Prosecutor Jeon Moo-gon issued a statement with the middle officers of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office and publicly exonerated them. I have voiced criticism of the Minister.
Bonho Koo bono@kado.net
