Six Candidates Recommended for Supreme Court Justice Nomination... Including Park Young-jae, Eom Sang-pil, and Park Soon-young

From the left, Juhan Chang, lawyer at Law Firm Dooul; Youngjae Park, Deputy Director of the Court Administration Office; Sangpil Eom, Chief Judge of the Seoul High Court; Sunyoung Park, Judge of the Seoul High Court; Sookhee Shin, Standing Commissioner of the Sentencing Commission (High Court Judge); Sukyeon Lee, High Court Judge of the Patent Court. Photo by the Supreme Court.

The Supreme Court Justice Nomination Committee (Chairman Lee Kwang-hyung) recommended six candidates for nomination as Supreme Court Justices to Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae on the 25th.

They are candidates to succeed former Supreme Court Justices Ahn Cheol-sang and Min Yoo-sook, who retired on the 1st of this month.

The Nomination Committee held a meeting in the afternoon and selected six candidates from a total of 42 Supreme Court Justice candidates: Attorney Cho Han-chang of Law Firm Dooul (58, Judicial Research and Training Institute Class 18), Deputy Director Park Young-jae of the Court Administration Office (54, Class 22), Presiding Judge Eom Sang-pil of the Seoul High Court (55, Class 23), Judge Park Soon-young of the Seoul High Court (57, Class 25), Standing Member Shin Sook-hee of the Sentencing Commission (High Court Judge, 54, Class 25), and High Court Judge Lee Sook-yeon of the Patent Court (55, Class 26).

Chairman Lee Kwang-hyung stated, "Today, our society faces conflicts and confrontations in various fields, and the nature of disputes is becoming increasingly complex. The public hopes that the Supreme Court will serve as the last bastion for social integration by promptly resolving numerous disputes and conflicts through swift and fair judgments that everyone can accept, restoring trust in the judiciary, and presenting reasonable standards for dispute resolution."

He added, "The Nomination Committee, keeping in mind these societal changes and public expectations, has strived to recommend candidates who possess not only extensive legal knowledge and rational judgment as legal professionals but also a sense of duty to protect citizens' freedoms and human rights, a commitment to protecting socially vulnerable and minority groups, insight and sensitivity to reflect the diverse values of our society in line with the times, fairness and balance, as well as morality and integrity."

Attorney Cho Han-chang graduated from Sangmun High School and Seoul National University Law School and began his legal career in 1992 as a judge at the Busan District Court East Branch. He has served as a Supreme Court Judicial Researcher, Acting Senior Presiding Judge of the Seoul Administrative Court, and worked in the administrative and tax divisions of the Seoul High Court. Since 2021, he has been working as the managing attorney at Law Firm Dooul.

Deputy Director Park Young-jae of the Court Administration Office graduated from Baejeong High School and Seoul National University Law School and first donned the judicial robe in 1996 as a judge at the Seoul District Court East Branch. He has served at the Busan High Court and Seoul High Court and worked as a professor at the Judicial Research and Training Institute in 2009. He also has extensive experience in judicial administration, including roles as Personnel Officer and Director of Planning and Coordination.

Presiding Judge Eom Sang-pil of the High Court graduated from Jinju Dongmyeong High School and Seoul National University Law School and began his judicial career in 1997 as a judge at the Seoul District Court. He also presided over the appellate trial related to former Dongyang University professor Jeong Gyeong-sim’s children’s admission fraud and private equity fund charges.

Judge Park Soon-young of the High Court graduated from Eunkwang Girls' High School and Korea University Law School and was appointed as a judge at the Daejeon District Court in 1996. She has served at the Seoul Administrative Court and as a Supreme Court Judicial Researcher. She has worked in the labor division of the Seoul High Court and is recognized as a labor law expert, having participated in the Supreme Court Labor Law Practice Research Group.

Standing Member Shin Sook-hee graduated from Changmoon Girls' High School and Seoul National University Law School and began her judicial career in 1996 as a judge at the Seoul District Court. She has served at the Seoul High Court and Busan High Court and has been a standing member of the Sentencing Commission since February this year. She also served as the chairperson of the Supreme Court Gender Law Research Group.

High Court Judge Lee Sook-yeon graduated from Yeouido Girls' High School and Pohang University of Science and Technology with a degree in Industrial Engineering. She was appointed as a judge at the Seoul District Court Western Branch in 1997. She has worked in the Court Administration Office’s Planning and Coordination Office and as an Information Technology Review Officer. Currently, she serves as the chairperson of the Supreme Court’s Artificial Intelligence Research Group and is a concurrent professor in the Department of Computer Science at KAIST, known for her expertise in information and communication technology and intellectual property rights.

Chief Justice Cho plans to disclose the list of candidates recommended by the Nomination Committee along with their major rulings and work records, and will appoint and nominate two new Supreme Court Justice candidates by respecting the recommendations of the Nomination Committee as much as possible.

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