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Cho Kuk, Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs, is guiding Prosecutor General Yoon to his seat at a tea party held before the award ceremony for the appointment of then-new Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol, held at the Blue House on the morning of July 25, 2019. /yunhap news
An interview was released on the 23rd in which former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, who served as senior secretary for civil affairs at the Blue House under the Moon Jae-in administration and conducted personnel verification in the process of appointing Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office Chief Yoon Seok-yeol as prosecutor general in 2019, said he regretted his decision at the time.
Former Minister Cho recently appeared on a program called ‘Park Jie-won’s Table’ broadcast on the YouTube channel Medici Media and interviewed former National Intelligence Service Director Park Jie-won. During the interview, there was a corner where former Minister Cho answered questions from subscribers within 3 seconds.
In response to the question, ‘If you could spend just one day again, what would it be?’, former Minister Cho responded, “It would be at the time of nomination for minister in 2019. “I probably wouldn’t have accepted it,” he replied. Former Minister Cho, who was the first senior secretary for civil affairs at the Blue House under the Moon Jae-in administration, was nominated as the next Minister of Justice following Minister Park Sang-ki in August 2019, but resigned 35 days after taking office due to the so-called ‘Cho Kook incident’.
When asked what ‘MBTI’ was, former Minister Cho replied, “My daughter told me about it, but I forgot.” When asked, ‘Please choose a problematic character in the movie Seoul Spring,’ he said, “The most problematic one is Jeon Doo-gwang (Chun Doo-hwan).” As for the ‘book passage that gave me comfort in difficult times,’ I chose Nietzsche’s words, “What doesn’t kill me only makes me stronger.”
When asked, ‘What is your family’s reaction to the founding of a new party?’, he said, “Everyone just nodded silently without saying anything.” When asked what the most heartbreaking reaction was to the founding of the party, he said, “Why do you want to go into politics when you were found guilty in a lower court?”
In an SBS radio interview the previous day, former Minister Cho said, “There is also the right to appeal and contest lower court rulings, and the political right to fight against such an incompetent and incompetent regime until the conviction is finally confirmed. In that context, I began participating in politics and prepared to found a political party. He expressed his position, “It is.”
President Moon Jae-in is receiving a report on the nomination of the new Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol from Justice Minister Park Sang-ki at the Blue House residence on June 17, 2019. From the left, Senior Secretary for Civil Affairs Cho Kuk, Minister Park, President Moon, Chief of Staff Noh Young-min, and First Assistant Secretary Cho Han-ki. /Blue house
There was also a question, ‘What is the word that annoys former Minister Cho the most?’ Former Minister Cho said, “Why did you make Yoon Seok-yeol the Prosecutor General?”
At the book concert held in Gwangju in December last year, former Minister Cho said, “As a high-ranking public official, I will not try to say anything about the verification and appointment process of the (Prosecutor General) at the time,” and “I want to be honest and say that it was my fault.” There is a bar. He said, “I think it’s easier to say that I was ugly and blind, that I was naive.”
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