Person
South Korean lawmaker of the Democratic Party of Korea who sits on the National Assembly's Legislation and Judiciary Committee.
Seoul High Court gave Genencell founder Kang four years in prison, reversing his acquittal over 600 million won paid to a broker's company. The ruling rests on recorded calls tying that money to an approach to Rep. Kim Seung-won.
Reality
Seoul High Court jailed Genencell founder Kang for four years, ruling that 600 million won paid to a broker was compensation for lobbying via a lawmaker. The ruling contradicts one of the two reasons prosecutors gave in 2024 for suspending the indictment of lawmaker Kim Seung-won.
Reality
Finance and Economy, Land and Infrastructure and SMEs all change hands inside a ten-post announcement. The opposition has already named the Justice nominee as the fight that will set the hearing calendar.
Reality
The Prosecution Service is abolished in under two weeks. Its two successors are still waiting on a justice minister, a prosecutor general and a first commissioner, and on an organizational plan nobody has signed.
Reality
Two weeks after being named minister of gender equality and family, Yong Hye-in gave up the nomination at a National Assembly news conference on the 13th and said she will go back to her work as a lawmaker.
Reality
A Seoul investigation team wanted justice minister nominee Kim Seung-won prosecuted and sentenced to eight months over a request to speed a COVID-19 trial approval. The Supreme Prosecutors' Office suspended the indictment instead.
Reality