‘Securing Prosecutorial Neutrality is Necessary’... Calls for Self-Correction Even Within the Organization

Park Cheol-wan, Yongin Branch Director, "Prosecutor Neutrality Should Not Fall into the Contradiction of Leaving It to Politics"

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] There has been a call within the prosecution for a discussion to uphold the political neutrality of the prosecution.

According to the legal community on the 17th, Park Cheol-wan, head of the Yongin branch of the Judicial Research and Training Institute (age 50, 27th Judicial Research and Training Institute class), posted a message titled "Request for Discussion on Measures to Secure Political Neutrality" on the prosecution's internal network, Epros.

Park stated, "In order to maintain the prosecution's political neutrality in a new environment, and furthermore to gain the public's trust as a state institution that strictly observes political neutrality, I hope that fierce discussions will take place from now on about what individual prosecutors and the prosecution organization as a whole should do and how."

He added, "If such discussions do not occur within the prosecution, or if the results of those discussions are not put into practice, we will fall into a contradictory situation where the guarantee of the prosecution's political neutrality is left to the political sphere, or we will effectively abandon it."

He continued, "It is clear that a situation where the prosecution is strongly suspected of lacking political neutrality by the public contradicts its reason for existence, and working as a member of such an institution without striving to overcome this situation would be shameful and painful, wouldn't it?"

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