Yoon Appoints Jeong Seung-yoon, Professor at Busan National University Law School, as Vice Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission

Practical Work on Judicial Reform Pledges in Yoon's Presidential Campaign Headquarters

[Asia Economy Reporter Ki-min Lee] On the 27th, President Yoon Seok-yeol appointed Professor Jeong Seung-yoon of the Busan National University School of Law as the Vice Chairman of the Anti-Corruption and Civil Rights Commission.

The Presidential Office announced the appointment result of the vice chairman of the commission, a position equivalent to vice minister, in a press release on the same day.

The newly appointed Vice Chairman Jeong graduated from the Department of Public Law at Seoul National University and served as a prosecutor at the Seoul Southern District Prosecutors' Office, Gwangju District Prosecutors' Office Suncheon Branch, and Busan District Prosecutors' Office before becoming a professor at Busan National University School of Law in 2006.

He was in charge of judicial reform pledges during President Yoon's presidential campaign headquarters. At that time, he used the neologism "Ottoke," which was criticized for being misogynistic, in the pledge book, leading to controversy and his dismissal.

However, after President Yoon's election, he was reappointed as a specialist member of the Political, Judicial, and Administrative Affairs Subcommittee of the Presidential Transition Committee.