Friendly waiter, Kwon Young-cheol. Welcome.
◆ Youngchul Kwon> Yes, hello.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> Come to think of it, it has been a long time since the Prosecutor General is vacant.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> That’s right.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Is that right?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> It’s been over two months.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Is the cutting edge work in progress? Now if you look into it.
Reporter Hwang Jin-hwan
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> The Prosecutor General’s Recommendation Committee was formed on July 11th. And by the 19th, I received the so-called public recommendation and public recommendation. We are in the process of verification after obtaining approval from candidates for president. The recommendation committee is unlikely to be held this week, and it is highly likely that it will be held next week. Or maybe there is a change in the schedule. So, there is a possibility that it will be held in the second week of August, and so on.
In the following procedure, the Minister of Justice selects those who have been recommended by the people and those whom the Minister of Justice considers suitable as the candidates, and presents them to the President Recommendation Committee. There are usually around 10 or 7 or 8 people who can be judged. I have to recommend 3 or more of them. Usually, it was 3 people at first, and then 4 people after that. Since there are three people, the person the president wants is missing.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Because it keeps happening.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> So, if you increase the number to four, the possibility that the government wants people to enter increases.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> We are going to raise 4 people to the president. then. on recommendation.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> No, to the Minister of Justice.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Post it to the Minister.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> The Minister of Justice selects one of them and asks the president again, and the president appoints him to go.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Actually, we’re discussing it together.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> That’s right. The president has the authority to appoint personnel, and the Minister of Justice has the function of assisting personnel, so they make proposals. The president in my heart.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> That’s right. Right.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> That’s how it is.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> So, the question that the waiting person will ask you today is the Prosecutor General Inseon, how is it going?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> That’s not very interesting, and the truth is, who will be the president is going to be the most important topic.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Are you filming today who will be?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> It must be, and I need to explain why the appointment of the president is so late, and I prepared such a story.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Let’s take a look at the recommended work. How do the recommenders make recommendations, that is, even those whom the government doesn’t want to be recommended?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> If the Ministry of Justice publicly announces it, I would like this person to become the Prosecutor General, whether it be an individual, a corporation, or an organization. I can recommend. Last time, Prosecutor Lim Eun-jung was still only the chief prosecutor.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Lim Eun-jung.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> You were recommended as a candidate for the Prosecutor General. In this way, anyone can recommend someone who wants to be like this. Among those recommended, the Minister of Justice sees the qualifications and can present them to the Recommendation Committee based on these factors.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> That’s right. Who is the strongest right now?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> As of now, there are probably about 10 people among the recommended candidates. The most influential are Lee Won-seok, deputy chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, who is acting as the president, and Kim Hu-gon, chief of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office. There is a possibility of ex-employment, yes.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> After Lee Won-seok, the deputy chief of the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office, who is now acting as the chief of staff, he is the chief of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office. Kim Hu-gon, Chief Prosecutor of Seoul High Prosecutor’s Office, Yanggang District. I’ve heard rumors that there are candidates among the 23 members of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, which is a classmate of President Yoon.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Actually, the greetings are all made up. If you choose someone from among the people who have been greeted here, you will have to say hello again. So, among the former executives who have retired, wouldn’t that be the 23rd term of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, the motive of President Yoon Seok-yeol? So Bae Seong-beom, former chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, Koo Bon-seon, former deputy chief of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, etc. There are still theories that these people are influential. Among the current high prosecutors, Yeo Hwan-seop, director of the Judicial Research and Training Institute, Roh Jeong-yeon, chief of the Busan High Prosecutors’ Office, etc., are also being mentioned as candidates. When I checked, it became known that Bae Seong-beom, former Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, was not on the list presented above. The former Deputy Chief Prosecutor, Koo Bon-sun, gave the verification agreement.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Verification agreement.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> If you pay it, it means you are in the candidate group. say that’s how it happened. In fact, there were rumors about whether the former Seoul Prosecutor’s Office, Bae Seong-beom, was a strong candidate, but seeing that he had fallen into the candidate group, there were unexpected reactions.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> It is now the 27th term as Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Is that right?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Yes.
Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon answers a question from Rep. Park Beom-gye of the Democratic Party of Korea during a question about politics, diplomacy, unification, and security held at the National Assembly in Yeouido, Seoul on the 25th. Reporter Chang-won Yoon
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Then, is it customary for this police chief to have nothing to do with this? What happens?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> It is customary to be a junior rider rather than a minister. Before that, in the past, when a junior jockey became a minister, the president often resigned and resigned. However, when this came into the Roh Moo-hyun administration, of course, he was not a prosecutor, but when he became Minister Kang Geum-sil and Cheon Jeong-bae, a senior jockey served as the prosecutor general. But not only that, under the Lee Myung-bak administration, a senior jockey rather than the Justice Minister served as the prosecutor general. President Kim Jun-gyu (11th) under Minister Lee Gwi-nam (12th). At the time of President Kim Jin-tae (14th term), Minister of Justice Kim Hyun-woong (16th term) was a junior in the 2nd term, but there was a time when he continued to hold the position even after becoming a minister.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> It must be said that it is broken. that practice.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> I think that practice is broken a lot, but the reason why the recommendation committee is getting attention was that it started when Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye were the first presidential candidates during the regime change. At that time, Kim Hak-eui, the head of the Daejeon High Prosecutor’s Office, was evaluated as the most influential, but was excluded from the recommendation committee.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> That’s right. I remember
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> It was, but in fact, President Yoon Seok-yeol almost dropped out of the recommendation committee, but he got there at the last minute. Just before, when Kim Oh-soo became president, I tried to make Lee Seong-yoon the chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, but this is a case that was excluded from the recommendation committee.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> Lee Won-seok, Kim Hu-gon You said that it is a Yanggang composition now, what is the basis for this?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Isn’t the ‘Prosecutor General’s passing’ the biggest problem in the opposition right now? I said hello without the president, but let’s listen to the response of Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon at the National Assembly for a moment.
| ▶ Minister of Justice Han Dong-hoon |
| “I am convinced that the opinion of the prosecution has been reflected more than ever before. If you ask the prosecution, they will tell you that there is no precedent for reflecting the opinion of the prosecution as clearly as I did this time.” |
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Minister Han said that he fully reflected the prosecution’s personnel opinion more than ever. Let’s listen to the question-and-answer session between Rep. Park Beom-gye and Minister Han Dong-hoon.
| ▶ Rep. Park Beom-gye – Minister Han Dong-hoon |
| Rep. Park Beom-gye: Who did you do it with? Minister Han Dong-hoon: I have consulted with the acting prosecutor general more than 10 times. |
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> You are talking about a minister who talked more than 10 times with Deputy Chief Prosecutor Lee Won-seok. Lee Won-seok is also the acting deputy president, but the deputy chief prosecutor is involved in all personnel matters.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> It is now.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> So, it’s the most powerful one. Also, it is said that the chief prosecutor’s staff who will assist the Prosecutor General was also effectively appointed by Deputy Chief Lee Won-seok, not according to Minister Han Dong-hoon’s will. I heard a story from a high-ranking official of the prosecution, “The chief prosecutor’s staff was reasonably well organized so that no matter who became the president, there was no setback in the performance of his duties.” talking like this
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Are such reviews coming out from inside now?
◆ Youngchul Kwon> Yes, it is.
From left, Deputy Chief Prosecutor Won-seok Lee and Chief Prosecutor Kim Hu-gon of Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office. yunhap news
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Yes. Kim Hoo-gon, chief of the Seoul High Prosecutors’ Office.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Kim Hu-gon, the chief of the Seoul District Prosecutors’ Office, is called Yanggang Gu-do because he was appointed as the chief of the high prosecutor’s office a month earlier than the other candidates. And there is an evaluation that the trust inside and outside the prosecution is stronger than anyone else. It is not classified as the so-called Yoon Seok-yeol division of the prosecution.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> This is not the Yoon Seok-yeol division.
◆ Young-Chul Kwon> Yes, since he graduated from a non-Seoul National University, it may offset the image of Seoul Law University’s monopoly.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> This is not Seoul Law School.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> I’m from Dongguk University. It can also achieve a kind of tangpyeong greeting effect. When Deputy Chief Lee Won-seok is appointed, the number of noses goes down a lot. Since it’s the 25th, all you have to do is say a one-point greeting.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> So, Prosecutor Kim Hu-gon contributed 25.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Yes, Chief Prosecutor has contributed 25.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Deputy Director Lee Won-seok was in the 27th class earlier.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> 27th. That’s right. There are observations like that, isn’t it possible to achieve organizational stability as the personnel width is a bit smaller, so there are some who give points generously to Kim Hu-gon.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Lee Won-seok vs. Kim Hu-gon. Which of the two do you think is more powerful?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> That’s what President Yoon Seok-yeol and Justice Minister Han Dong-hoon will decide, but if you look at the process so far, the prosecution’s insider observation is that Chief Prosecutor Lee Won-seok is more influential.
Since I’m acting as the president’s representative, I only need to remove the acting representative. Also, there is no need for an adaptation period because it takes more than two months. And since they are all involved in personnel management, the passing controversy of the Prosecutor General can also be put to rest. The fact that the president’s trust is strong and the prosecution’s seniors and juniors are generous with his work ability is also considered an advantage.
◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> But while I’m listening now, then Won-seok Lee and Hu-gon Kim. He has a lot of trust inside and out, and if he says he’s okay with that, he nominated him as the Prosecutor General two months early.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> That’s the 27th term for Minister Han Dong-hoon and the 27th deputy director Lee Won-seok. If I had appointed two people from the beginning, there are now the 24th, 25th, and 26th members of the High Prosecutor’s Office, and these people must have all paid their resignations.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> At the same time.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Yes. Then, the personnel range becomes too large, and you have to do follow-up greetings, and you also have to take care of the Yoon Seok-yeol division. If so, would the prosecution organization be stable if Yoon Seok-yeol’s division was deployed all at once?
What is the Yun Seok-yeol government doing best? Isn’t that an investigation? If the organization that should be investigated is shaken, wouldn’t it be difficult for the government to do so? Because of these reasons, I try to get the person I want, so I want Deputy Director Won-seok Lee to be the president, but if I do it from the beginning, the organization is too shaky, so that’s the most influential evaluation.
Another reason is that as soon as you enter for the first time, your eyes are too focused on the prosecution organization and you have to appoint another minister. There are also several reasons, such as not having taken into account the fact that if a person in the prosecution gets attention, a person in the cabinet will not be noticed.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Then, the reason why I didn’t nominate a candidate for the Prosecutor General is to get the person I want, so it’s organized like this?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> After that, it is a bit difficult to explain separately. Of course, don’t you know that the presidential office is still the Supreme Prosecutor’s Office? Although there are analyzes like this, it is also true that there is such an evaluation that there is no problem because President Yoon Seok-yeol and Minister Han Dong-hoon know the prosecution so well, even if they do not actually appoint the prosecutor general.
However, in any case, the Moon Jae-in administration also appointed Yoon Seok-yeol, the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, before the Prosecutor General immediately after taking office. The Yoon Seok-yeol administration will also appoint Song Kyung-ho, the chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office, before the prosecutor-general. What happens then is that the head of the prosecution is the chief prosecutor, but the investigation is effectively controlled by the chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office. Those kinds of problems and things like that are things that the former government has foretold anyway. There are also rumors that this is not the case to make it a little smoother.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Actually, the reason I am very interested in this prosecutor general is that the president is a former prosecutor general, so this prosecutor general is not the de facto head of the plant? There is also this talk.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Yes.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> In fact, the president obviously knows everything, so it’s not like he gets involved like that. How do you see that part?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> It is true that there is a big concern that no matter who you are now, you will become a ‘bluff president’ or a ‘plant president’.
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◇ Kim Hyeon-jeong> Does such a thing come out even within the prosecution?
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> I’ve even heard such stories. When I proposed to the 23rd class as president, I was like, ‘Oh, how am I going to do this with Minister Han Dong-hoon?’ There are rumors that he declined in this way, but as I have heard from several people, it is highly likely that those words were just made up by luxuries.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Also from below.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> There is a point.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Yes.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Because of that, there are actually a lot of concerns, and there are concerns about whether the president will continue to be the prosecutor-general in effect.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Please give me some finishing touches.
◆ Young-Chul Kwon> And the things we need to pay attention to in the future are the fact that the Board of Audit and Inspection is actually being prosecuted.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Auditor?
◆ Young-cheol Kwon> The audit method of the new Auditor General Yoo Byung-ho is similar to that of the prosecution investigation. The Board of Audit and Inspection is auditing the National Election Commission and the Korea Communications Commission, KBS, and it is worth paying attention to this. Now is the time for results. There is a lot of talk about whether these two places will become the hottest key points in the future. You should pay attention to that.
◇ Kim Hyun-jung> Prosecutor General’s appointment The work is currently underway, but the news doesn’t show how it’s going. A friendly waiter covered and reported the parts that barely appeared on a single line today. Thank you.
◆ Kwon Young-cheol> Yes.
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