New Supreme Court candidates, 8 candidates including Yoon Jun, Suh Gyeong-hwan, Son Bong-ki, and Um Sang-pil (comprehensive)

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Kwon Young-joon, Park Soon-young, Shin Sook-hee, and Jeong Gye-seon are also nominated… 7 judges, 3 women

Cho Jae-yeon and Park Jung-hwa succeeded Justices… Supreme Court Chief Justice proposes two appointments after 2nd

(Seoul = Yonhap News) Reporter Hwang Yun-ki = The number of candidates to succeed Supreme Court Justices Jae-yeon Cho and Jeong-hwa Park, who are retiring in July, has been reduced to eight.

Yoon Jun (62, Judicial Research and Training Institute, 16th district) Chief Judge of Seoul High Court, Suh Gyeong-hwan (57th, 21st district) Chief Judge of Seoul High Court, Son Bong-ki (58th, 22nd district) Chief Judge of Seoul High Court was given Daegu District, Eom Sang-pil (55, 23rd district) Chief Judge of the Seoul High Court on the list.

Youngjun Kwon (53rd, 25th class) Professor, Seoul National University School of Law, Park Soon-young (57th, 25th class) Seoul High Court Judge (Central Election Management Committee), Shin Sook-hee (54th, 25th class) Standing member of the Sentencing Committee (High Court Judge), Jeong Gye-seon (54th) 27th) The Chief Judge of the Seoul Southern District Court was also included.

After meeting on the afternoon of the 30th, the Supreme Court Justice Candidate Recommendation Committee recommended 8 out of 37 Supreme Court justice candidates as candidates to be recommended to Chief Justice Kim Myung-soo.

Choi Young-ae, chairman of the recommendation committee, explained, “We wanted to recommend as candidates for the Supreme Court those who have human rights insights that encompass the various values ​​of our society and a strong sense of mission for the independence of the judiciary.”

Chief Justice Kim plans to reveal the major rulings of the recommended candidates and details of the work they have done so far, and after gathering opinions inside and outside the court by June 2, select two candidates and propose appointments.

Seven out of eight candidates to be nominated were current judges, and Professor Kwon was the only one nominated as a non-judge.

Of the 37 candidates to be judged, 4 were female, and 3 of them made it to the final list. Prosecutors were not included in the audit text.

Chairman Choi said, “In terms of diversity, the range of applicants for this screening was not wide, but despite such limitations, we tried to consider diversity such as career, origin and gender as much as possible.”

Seoul High Court Judge Yoon Jun graduated from Daesung High School and Korea University with a law degree and began his career as a judge in the Gangneung Branch of the Chuncheon District Court in 1990. He has held a number of important positions, including Judgment Research Officer the Supreme Court and the Chief Justice’s Chief Secretary. After serving as the head of the Suwon District Court and the head of the Gwangju High Court, he was inaugurated as the head of the Seoul High Court in February this year. As the son of the late former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yoon Kwan, who died last year, he will become father and son when he becomes a Supreme Court justice.

High Court Chief Justice Seo Gyeong-hwan graduated from Konkuk University’s High School for Sadaebu and Seoul National University’s Department of Law, and was appointed a judge in the West Branch of the Seoul District Court in 1995. He has served as a trial investigator in the Supreme Court and head of the Seoul Rehabilitation Court. In charge of the second Sewol ferry trial at the Gwangju High Court, Captain Lee Jun-seok confessed to murder and was sentenced to life imprisonment.

Chief Judge Son Bong-gi graduated from Dalseong High School and Korea University Law Department. As a ‘hyangpan’ who worked in Daegu and Ulsan, he served as a trial researcher at the Supreme Court and a professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute. He was appointed as the head of the Daegu District Court through the nomination system for the head of the court, which was first implemented in 2019.

High Court Judge Eom Sang-pil graduated from Jinju Dongmyeong High School and Seoul National University School of Law and began his career as a judge at the Seoul District Court in 1997. He also served as the presiding judge of the appeal trial for allegations of irregularities in the entrance exam for the children of former Dongyang University professor Kyung-Shim Jeong and private equity funds.

Professor Kwon Young-joon graduated from Daegeon High School and Seoul National University with a law degree and passed the 35th bar exam. He began his career as a judge at the Seoul District Court in 1999 and moved to Seoul National University as a law professor in 2006.

High Court Judge Park Soon-yeong graduated from Eunkwang Girls’ High School and Korea University with a law degree. He was appointed as a member of the Central Election Commission in 2021 and currently serves as a judge at the Seoul High Court.

Shin Sook-hee, a member of the standing committee, graduated from Changsang Girls’ High School and Seoul National University’s Department of Law, and began her career as a judge at the Seoul District Court in 1996. After passing through the Seoul High Court and the Busan High Court , she has been working as a standing member of the Sentencing Committee since February this year, and has also served as chair of the Supreme Court’s Gender Law Research Group.

Chief Judge Jeong Gye-seon attended Chungju Girls’ High School and Seoul National University School of Law and passed the 37th bar exam as the top performer. He began his career as a judge at the Seoul District Court in 1998 and served as president of the International Human Rights Law Research Association. For the first time as a woman, she served as the presiding judge of the Seoul Central District Court’s Corruption Division and sentenced former President Lee Myung-bak, who was accused of embezzlement and bribery, to 15 years in prison.

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