Kim Osu Voluntary Resignation, Nationwide 'High Prosecutor Emergency Meeting' on 18th... Nationwide Ordinary Prosecutors Meeting at Central District Prosecutors' Office on 19th

Discussion Expected on 'Organizational Recovery and Countermeasures to Geomsuwanbak' After Director Kim's Resignation
Kim Abruptly Resigns a Day Before National Assembly Judiciary Committee's Inquiry on Geomsuwanbak Issue

[Asia Economy Reporter Heo Kyung-jun] Prosecutor General Kim Oh-soo, who voluntarily resigned taking responsibility for the proposal of the ‘Complete Removal of Prosecutorial Investigation Rights (Geomsu Wanbak)’ bill, will hold an emergency meeting of high prosecutors on the 18th at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office.

The Supreme Prosecutors' Office announced on the 17th that an emergency meeting will be held at 9:30 a.m. on the 18th with six high prosecutors from across the country. All six high prosecutors nationwide will attend the meeting. The attendees include Lee Sung-yoon, High Prosecutor of Seoul; Kim Kwan-jung, High Prosecutor of Suwon; Yeo Hwan-seop, High Prosecutor of Daejeon; Jo Jong-tae, High Prosecutor of Gwangju; Kwon Soon-beom, High Prosecutor of Daegu; and Jo Jae-yeon, High Prosecutor of Busan.

Prosecutor General Kim was scheduled to appear before the National Assembly’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee on the 18th to explain the unfairness of the Geomsu Wanbak bill, but he suddenly resigned voluntarily on the same day.

It is reported that the prosecution internally fell into confusion as Prosecutor General Kim abruptly expressed his intention to resign. With his resignation, the planned urgent questioning session at the Judiciary Committee on the 18th has become uncertain.

At the previously held high prosecutors’ meeting, there was a consensus expressing serious concern that the bill, which brings fundamental changes to the criminal justice system, is being hastily pushed forward at a political level without sufficient public consensus and adequate opinion gathering.

In this meeting, it is expected that they will discuss organizational recovery plans following Prosecutor General Kim’s resignation and response measures to the Geomsu Wanbak bill.

On the 19th, a nationwide meeting of ordinary prosecutors will be held for the first time in 19 years. The nationwide ordinary prosecutors’ meeting is scheduled to take place from 7 p.m. on the 19th at the auditorium on the 2nd floor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office in Seocho-dong, Seoul. The meeting was originally planned for 10 a.m., but the time was changed to allow more prosecutors to attend.

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