Jo Nam-gwan, the director of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, who left the office on the 22nd, criticized the “examination and complete deprivation of the prosecution’s investigation rights”, which the opposition and opposition parties agreed to pursue, saying, “In the end, our country will become a corrupt republic, and the damage will only go to the people.”
Director Cho resigned on the 5th, before the controversy over his oversight grew, and held a resignation ceremony on the same day. In his resignation address, President Cho said, “I am very sorry that I am leaving first in a situation where a very serious and urgent crisis that shakes the Korean judicial system in 1970 is caused due to the legislation related to overhaul in the National Assembly.” The legislative method related to the inspection and refusal is in a desperate crisis situation that is dealt with swiftly like a lightning bolt in the anger of being deprived of power without any proper public hearings or debates,” he said.
“If legislation that changes the foundation of the judicial system that places the highest values on justice and human rights in a country is handled with anger and hasty amid ideological excess and greed for power, justice will be distorted and the people’s basic rights will inevitably be tainted,” he said. .
Director Cho said, “The agreement on the adjustment of investigative powers announced in June 2018 under the names of the Minister of Justice and the Minister of Public Administration and Security aims to ‘distribute and check the power of the prosecution while maintaining the national investigation capacity’. In the agreement at the time, I know that the prosecution’s direct initiation of investigation was limited to six major crimes for the purpose of maintaining national investigative capabilities while adjusting the investigative powers between the prosecution and the police. “If the direct investigation authority of the prosecution is completely abolished without sufficient consideration or deliberation on maintaining the national investigation capacity, the prosecution reform will only fail as a crippled reform of the prosecution’s powers will remain,” he pointed out.
He continued, “Of course, I know that there is a problem with the neutrality and fairness of the prosecution’s direct investigation behind the proposal of this legislation. will be committed,” he said.
He added, “The issue of neutrality and fairness in the prosecution’s direct investigation should not be resolved with legislation related to the completion of the inspection, but should be carefully considered and prepared with other alternatives.”
On that day, at the Legal Research and Training Institute, research fellow Koo Bon-seon, a senior prosecutor, also expressed his resignation in protest once morest the ruling and opposition parties’ agreement to arbitrate. Prosecutor General Oh-su Kim, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Park Seong-jin, Lee Seong-yun (Seoul), Kim Gwan-jeong (Suwon), Yeo Hwan-seop (Daejeon), Kwon Soon-beom (Daegu), Jo Jong-tae (Gwangju), and Cho Jae-yeon (Busan), all of the senior prosecutors, all resigned on the same day, and the prosecution There is no longer a single high-ranking officer at the high prosecutor’s level or higher.
Reporter Lee Hye-won, Donga.com hyewon@donga.com
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