"Yoon, Excessive Investigation of Cho Kuk... Also Targeting His Daughter" Cho Kuk Criticizes Yoon Seok-yeol Using Hong Joon-pyo

Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk, who was indicted on charges of school admission corruption involving his children, is appearing at the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-dong on the 25th of last month.
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[Asia Economy Reporter Park Hyun-joo] Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk criticized former Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol by quoting the remarks of Hong Joon-pyo, a member of the People Power Party.

On the 2nd, Cho posted on his Facebook, sharing a capture of an interview Hong gave to a media outlet that day, introducing it as "Hong's evaluation."

In the interview article shared by Cho, Hong pointed out that former Prosecutor General Yoon conducted an excessive investigation into Cho's family.

Hong criticized, "When the prosecution usually investigates a family, they only investigate a representative among the family members. They persistently detained Cho Kuk's younger brother and cousin, and even touched on his daughter’s matters," adding, "It was severe. The goal was to force Cho Kuk to resign."

He continued, "Recently, Yoon himself has been accused, and both his wife and mother-in-law have been implicated. It is self-inflicted," and said, "When he was conducting strong investigations into the deep-rooted evils and Cho Kuk, he should not now say 'That’s not me' regarding investigations into his own family. He must overcome this himself and move forward."

A post by former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk on his Facebook on the 2nd. Photo by former Minister Cho's Facebook capture.

Earlier, in March, Cho had also expressed sympathy by sharing Hong’s post. At that time, when former Prosecutor General Yoon openly opposed the prosecution reform pushed by the ruling party and resigned, Hong criticized the prosecution through his Facebook, saying, "Whenever prosecution reform became an issue, it acted as the regime’s hunting dog and maintained its monopolistic power," and added, "From now on, don’t just talk, but truly become the people's prosecution."

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