Seoul Central and Southern District Prosecutors' Offices Resume Weekly Reports to Prosecutor General... After 1-Year Suspension

[Asia Economy Reporter Song Seung-yoon] Weekly reports from frontline prosecutors' offices such as the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office and the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office will resume after one year.

According to the legal community on the 11th, the Supreme Prosecutors' Office plans to soon resume weekly reports from the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office, and others. The Supreme Prosecutors' Office chief meetings chaired by Prosecutor General Kim Oh-soo are also expected to be held daily going forward.

The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, due to many ongoing issues, has typically had the district chief report face-to-face to the Prosecutor General once a week. The Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office reported twice a month, and frontline prosecutors' offices reported as issues arose.

However, in July last year, weekly reports by Lee Sung-yoon, chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, were effectively suspended amid conflicts between the Ministry of Justice and the Supreme Prosecutors' Office over investigation command of the Channel A case. At that time, former Minister Choo exercised investigative command authority over former Prosecutor General Yoon, instructing him to guarantee the independence of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office's Channel A investigation team, leading to a conflict with former Prosecutor General Yoon.