Nomination Approval for Supreme Court Justice Candidates Kwon Young-jun and Seo Kyung-hwan Passed in Plenary Session

The appointment consent bills for Supreme Court Justice candidates Kwon Young-jun and Seo Kyung-hwan passed the National Assembly plenary session on the 18th.

On the afternoon of the same day, the National Assembly submitted and voted on the appointment consent bills for the two candidates in the plenary session.

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Among 265 members present, the vote for candidate Kwon was 215 in favor, 35 against, and 15 abstentions; for candidate Seo, 243 in favor, 15 against, and 7 abstentions, resulting in approval for both.

Candidate Kwon, who served as a professor at a national university, faced issues for submitting legal opinions to a law firm in exchange for a large fee, which led to the postponement of the adoption of the hearing report at the full meeting of the National Assembly's Personnel Hearing Special Committee the previous day. However, after reconsideration on this day, the report was adopted. Nonetheless, a minority opinion expressing concerns about the inappropriateness of receiving a large fee for writing the opinions was agreed to be appended to the report.

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