[2024 National Audit] Kwon Ik Chairman "Will Not Oppose Separation of Anti-Corruption Functions"

October 8 National Assembly Political Affairs Committee Audit

Yoo Cheol-hwan, Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission (ACRC), said on the 8th that he "would not oppose" the proposal to separate the ACRC's anti-corruption functions.

Yoo Cheol-hwan, Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission, is responding to questions from ruling and opposition party members at the National Assembly's Public Administration and Security Committee audit held at the Government Sejong Complex on the 8th.

On the same day, at the National Assembly's Political Affairs Committee audit held at the ACRC building in Sejong City, Yoo responded this way to a question from Yoo Dong-soo, a member of the Democratic Party of Korea, who asked whether it would be better to separate the ACRC's anti-corruption functions if they become entangled in political disputes and find it difficult to maintain independence.

Since the tenure of former Chairperson Jeon Hyun-hee and continuing through Yoo's current term, the ACRC has been involved in numerous political controversies while handling various political cases. This year, political controversies arose from incidents such as the suspicion of luxury handbag acceptance involving Kim Geon-hee, wife of President Yoon Seok-yeol, the emergency helicopter usage case involving Lee Jae-myung, leader of the Democratic Party, and the allegation of complaint manipulation involving Ryu Hee-rim, Chairperson of the Korea Communications Standards Commission.

The ACRC, the nation's central anti-corruption agency, was launched on February 29, 2008, by integrating the previously scattered National Integrity Commission, the Civil Complaints Commission, and the Prime Minister's Administrative Appeals Commission.

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