Presidential Office to Seek "Efficient Personnel Verification Improvement Measures" Following Jeong Soon-shin's Fall

Limitations in Verifying High-Ranking Officials' Children During Personnel Screening

On the 26th, the Presidential Office announced that it will "seek efficient improvement measures regarding future personnel verification" in relation to the appointment of lawyer Jeong Sun-shin as the new head of the National Investigation Headquarters, which was canceled after one day due to issues involving his child's school violence.

On the 26th, a senior official from the Presidential Office told Asia Economy in a phone interview that there were limitations in verifying information about the children of high-ranking public officials during personnel screening, conveying this point.

It was explained that documents such as the school records of children of high-ranking public official candidates were not included in the scope of public materials used for personnel verification.

Because of this, it appears that they were unable to identify the school violence and disciplinary committee results during lawyer Jeong’s son’s high school years, as well as related legal battles.

Jeong Sun-shin (57), who was appointed as the 2nd head of the National Investigation Headquarters on the 24th, resigned the day before after reports surfaced that his son, while attending a prestigious autonomous private high school as a first-year student in 2017, had continuously bullied classmates and was subjected to forced transfer, and that he had filed a lawsuit to cancel the disciplinary action but ultimately lost in the first and second trials as well as the Supreme Court.

The Presidential Office is taking this issue of violence in the educational environment seriously and plans to prepare fundamental measures to eradicate school violence, as well as improve the personnel verification system in the future.

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