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The acting president, who wasn’t elected into his position and disregarded the Constitutional Court’s orders to appoint the already vetted Ma Eun-hyeok, finally appointed Ma alongside naming two moderate-to-conservative judges to the CC. This is, and I’m putting it bluntly, absolute horseshit. The last time a president was impeached, Hwang Kyo-an did not name a justice to the CC when Justice Park Han-cheol finished his term in January 2017, so there is no precedence. One of the justices he named, Lee Wan-kyu, is a close ally to Yoon. He is a 입사동기 (A person who joined a school, company, training center, club, etc. at the same time as someone else.) of Yoon for both Seoul National University and the Judicial Research and Training Institute. If you’re not Korean, know that this is significant because dong-gi’s are seen as significant friends and people you need to keep close. Lee knew Yoon for forty years, has campaigned for the impeached president during the 2017 elections, and, most pertinently, met with the conspirators a day after the martial law proclamation & changed his phone after the meeting. Han Duck-soo claims that he nominated the aforementioned Lee and Ham Sang-hoon because not doing so would cause “serious disruptions” to important procedures like the upcoming presidential election, preparing budgets, and responding to trade issues. Keep in mind that this is the same individual who was himself impeached for not appointing Ma to the court during a very disruptive moment in Korean history. I don’t know they still commit to the blatant politization of the courts even as their leader is gone. submitted by /u/MerryMightMight |
(LEAD) Acting president appoints 9th justice to Constitutional Court, names successors to retiring judges | Yonhap News Agency
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