Seoul High Prosecutor Kim Hugon Also Resigns... All Three Prosecutor General Candidates Step Down

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[Asia Economy Reporter Kim Hyung-min] Kim Hu-gon, Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office (age 57, Judicial Research and Training Institute class 25), who was a candidate for the new Prosecutor General, has tendered his resignation. As a result, among the four candidates recommended as the first Prosecutor General candidates under the Yoon Seok-yeol administration, three senior prosecutors, except for Lee Won-seok, Deputy Prosecutor General of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office (class 27), who was finally appointed, have all left the prosecution.

According to the legal community on the 26th, Chief Prosecutor Kim submitted his resignation to the Ministry of Justice on the same day. Following Yeo Hwan-seop, Director of the Judicial Research and Training Institute (class 24), and Lee Doo-bong, Chief Prosecutor of the Daejeon High Prosecutors' Office (class 25), he was the last among the candidates recommended by the Prosecutor General Candidate Recommendation Committee to choose to step down.

Due to the characteristics of the prosecution organization, when a person from a lower class is appointed as Prosecutor General, it is customary for senior and same-class prosecutors to resign to ease the burden of command, and this practice seems to have continued this time as well.

Chief Prosecutor Kim graduated from Kyungdong High School and Dongguk University with a degree in law. He passed the judicial examination in 1993 and began his career as a prosecutor at the Northern Branch of the Seoul District Prosecutors' Office in 1996. He held key positions such as Director of the Information and Communications Division at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, Chief of the Special Investigation Division 1 at the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, and spokesperson for the Supreme Prosecutors' Office. In 2018, he was promoted to the rank of Chief Prosecutor as the Head of the Trial and Litigation Department at the Supreme Prosecutors' Office. Afterwards, he served as Director of Planning and Coordination at the Ministry of Justice, Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Northern District Prosecutors' Office, Chief Prosecutor of the Daegu District Prosecutors' Office, and was appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul High Prosecutors' Office in May of this year.

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