[Photo] Chief Prosecutor Park Cheolwoo Says "I Understand and Sympathize with Opposition to Forgoing Appeal"

Park Cheolwoo, the newly appointed Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, answers questions from reporters as he arrives for his first day at the office in Seocho-gu, Seoul, on November 21. Regarding the recent controversy over the prosecution's decision to forgo an appeal in the first trial of the Daejang-dong development corruption case, Chief Prosecutor Park stated, "I fully understand that members of the prosecution are expressing their opposition." Addressing suspicions that he was involved in the decision to forgo the appeal, Park said, "A lot of inaccurate information about me has been circulating."

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