"Come out on Christmas".President Yoon's attendance date requested by the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit [Y Record]

■ Host: Kim Sun-young Anchor
■ Appearance: Kim Jin, former Editorial Writer at JoongAng Ilbo, Choi Chang-ryul, Special Professor at Yongin University

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◆ Anchor
The Government of Yoon Suk Yeol issued a second summons notice to the President of the Republic of Korea. I've set the date for Christmas.

◇ Kim Jin
Christmas is a public holiday next Wednesday. To set such a date, the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit strongly demonstrates its will to investigate.

◆ Anchor
You won't even take a holiday?

◇ Kim Jin
That's right. The Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit has been criticized for various reasons. It has been pointed out that the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit has been investigating for too long in the case of Corporal Chae, so it has been dispelled. Once you do it on holiday, you show off your will to investigate. And there's a possibility that there won't be any special political news that day. But if you comply with the summons, the news will be plastered all over and the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit can be at the center of the newsmaker, I think this is the calculation.

◆ Anchor
Anyway, by setting the date like this, all Korean journalists have to wait for Christmas, but this is the problem now. I didn't even receive the first attendance request. This is the part about whether the president of Yoon Suk Yeol will come out.

◇ Choi Chang-ryul Christmas is just around the corner. It's next Wednesday, so there are only a few days left, but given the current attitude of President Yoon's response, I think he may not respond to the summons on the 25th. As lawyer Seok Dong-hyun held a press conference yesterday, the lawyers were not formed.

Since the lawyers have not been formed, it is a justification that they cannot respond to the summons because the lawyers have not been formed yet. So I wonder if I'll be able to respond to this with only a few days left. Anyway, it seems that President Yoon or President Yoon are trying to delay the impeachment trial somehow.

In a way, of course, it can happen from your point of view. The appointment of judges is also this year and there are many variables. It's equivalent to Article 51 of the Constitutional Court Act, and when it goes on at the same time as the criminal prosecution trial, it can be stopped, so I think I'm trying to make the most of it, from now on. Then, I might not be able to comply with the summons on Christmas. Because it's a holiday. Everyone is going to watch it at home. I think that could be burdensome for President Yoon.

◆ Anchor
The date will also be meaningful. What the Senior Civil Servant Corruption Investigations Unit has set for Christmas is... So, as you said now, there are many stinging eyes such as whether they are implementing a delay strategy, and on the other hand, it will not be easy to set up a lawyer now. There's also a view like this. How do you see it?

◇ Kim Jin
Prosecutor Yoon Suk Yeol, who served as the head of the Central Investigation Department of the Supreme Prosecutors' Office, was the head of the Central Investigation Dep Kim Hong-il, former chairman of the Korea Communications Commission, decided to serve as a lawyer, but by comparison, the person who served as special counsel for President Park Geun Hye was Park Young-soo, and the person who actually served as the investigation team leader was prosecutor Yoon Suk Yeol. So this time, former Chairman Kim Hong-il will be a symbolic person who acts as the leader of the defense team like Special Prosecutor Park Young-soo, and lawyer Seok Dong-hyun will probably take charge of the working team.

Like a Yoon Suk Yeol team leader in the past. The irony of history. Lawyer Seok Dong-hyun is in the same year as President Yoon Suk Yeol's law school at Seoul National University for 40 years, and wrote a book about President Yoon in the face of the last presidential election. So, as soon as President Yoon took power, he went to a minister-level position called the secretary-general of the Advisory Council for Peace and Unification. And during the general election in April, the nomination was not possible in terms of the power of the people, so I went to Pastor Jeon Kwang-hoon's Free Unification Party and received a candidate for proportional representation. In the end, I failed.

Therefore, forming a defense team is not really difficult in practice, but there is a delay that takes a little time, and refuses to receive various records from the overall Constitutional Court.I think I have a considerable sympathy with floor leader Kwon Sung-dong, who is the leader of the pro-Yoon faction, for refusing to comply with the summons.

◆ Anchor
In what part?

◇ Kim Jin
Floor leader Kwon Sung-dong is also using such a strategy to delay the hearing and decision of the Constitutional Court through various arguments. The acting president should not have the right to appoint a justice of the Constitutional Court, or other impeachment of President Yoon rather than impeachment, such as the impeachment of President Lee Jin-sook, president of the Korea Communications Commission, and the impeachment of the Board of Audit and Inspection.

Since they are making such claims that the logic is a little weak, there are up to two between the pro-Yoon-gye Kwon Seong-dong and the Yoon Suk Yeol president, and one is delaying the Constitutional Court's decision and the investigation of civil war as much as possible. The second is that the prosecution has concluded and pushed the charges of hard rebellion in the process, but this is absolutely not the case. I think we're in a situation where we want to keep emphasizing that it's not a civil war.

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: Yoon Hyun-kyung, Editor of the Digital News Team

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