Vice Chairman Jeong Seung-yoon of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission to Resign Early Next Month

Jeong Seung-yoon, Vice Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, will leave the Commission in early next month.

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Vice Chairman Jeong expressed this position to the full committee members at the plenary meeting held on the 30th at the Government Sejong Complex of the Commission.

The Commission stated that Vice Chairman Jeong's resignation is expected to be accepted on the 2nd of next month.

Earlier, Vice Chairman Jeong had tendered his resignation, taking responsibility for the death of the acting director of the Corruption Prevention Bureau, his direct subordinate, in mid-last month, and had first stepped down from his position as Secretary-General.

A former prosecutor, Vice Chairman Jeong was active in then-candidate Yoon Seok-yeol’s campaign during the 2022 presidential election, and immediately after President Yoon’s election, he worked as a professional committee member in the Political, Judicial, and Administrative Subcommittee of the Presidential Transition Committee. In January 2023, he was appointed as Vice Chairman of the Corruption Prevention Division and Secretary-General of the Commission, a position equivalent to vice minister.

The Commission, which operates under a structure of one chairman and three vice chairmen, will be temporarily managed by Chairman Yoo Cheol-hwan and Secretary-General cum Vice Chairman Park Jong-min (Chairman of the Central Administrative Appeals Commission).

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