‘Yoon Hearing Preparation Team’ Activities... Chief Prosecutor Gojinwon Joins Transition Committee

Former Chief Prosecutor Go, Active in Yoon's Hearing Preparation Team Policy... Experience as 'National Assembly Dispatched Prosecutor'

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[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] Ko Jin-won, head of the Fair Trade Investigation Division at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office (age 47, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 33), who worked in the hearing preparation team during Yoon Seok-yeol's nomination as Prosecutor General, has joined the Presidential Transition Committee. He is the second member to join after Lee Dong-gyun, head of the Criminal Division 3 at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office (age 46, class 33), who also worked in the hearing preparation team.

According to the legal community on the 16th, the prosecution decided to dispatch Chief Prosecutor Ko to the transition committee. Chief Prosecutor Ko began his career in 2004 at the Seoul Western District Prosecutors' Office and has served as a research officer at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, a prosecutor dispatched to the National Assembly, head of the trial division at the Busan District Prosecutors' Office, and chief of the Sokcho branch of the Chuncheon District Prosecutors' Office.

In 2019, while serving as a research officer in the Policy Division of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Chief Prosecutor Ko also worked in the policy team of Yoon's hearing preparation team.

Additionally, Chief Prosecutor Ko is known to have ties with Kwon Seong-dong, a close aide of President-elect Yoon and a member of the People Power Party, who was chairman of the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee when Ko was dispatched as a prosecutor to the National Assembly.

After moving to the position of head of the Fair Trade Investigation Division at the Central District Prosecutors' Office, Chief Prosecutor Ko conducted investigations related to large corporations, including allegations of obstruction of the Fair Trade Commission's investigation by Hyundai Heavy Industries and allegations of unfair support by Samsung Group to Samsung Welstory.

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