Five Appointed to Truth and Reconciliation Commission Including Lee Sang-hoon... Heo Sang-su Excluded

Excluding Heo Sang-su from the Democratic Party's Recommended Quota

The 2nd Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Past Affairs announced on the 24th that it has appointed five members, including Attorney Lee Sang-hoon and former non-standing member of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission Lee Ok-nam.

Standing Commissioner Lee Sang-hoon is a human rights lawyer with 25 years of experience who graduated from Seoul National University with a degree in Economics. He has served on the Legal Support Task Force for the Special Act on the Investigation of Past Truths, as an outside director of Hankyoreh Newspaper, and as the director of the Seoul Social Welfare Public Interest Law Center.

Standing Commissioner Lee Ok-nam is an expert in international relations who served as an investigator and public relations officer in the 1st Truth and Reconciliation Commission. She served as a non-standing member of the 2nd Truth and Reconciliation Commission for two years starting from February 2021.

Non-standing members include Attorneys Lee Sang-hee and Cha Ki-hwan, who have been serving as non-standing members of the 2nd Truth and Reconciliation Commission for two years since February 2021 and have been reappointed. Professor Oh Dong-seok of Ajou University School of Law was newly appointed.

Heo Sang-su, co-representative of the 4·3 Victims and Bereaved Families Association, who was nominated as a non-standing member candidate for the Truth and Reconciliation Commission by the Democratic Party and passed the National Assembly plenary session, was not appointed due to disqualification caused by a suspended retrial sentence.

Meanwhile, according to the Basic Act on the Truth and Reconciliation Commission on Past Affairs, the members of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission are elected by the National Assembly and appointed by the President. The commission consists of a total of nine members: one chairperson, two standing commissioners, and six non-standing commissioners, with a term of two years.

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