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[단독]Revelation of Kim Myung-soo nurturing Im Seong-geun “You can’t retire as a liar”

On the background of the release of a recording file of ‘impeachment’ of Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo (62, 15th training center) on the day the impeachment prosecution was passed (last 4th) by Deputy Judge Im Seong-geun of the Busan High Court (57, 17th Judicial Research and Training Institute) There is an interest in it. In September 2017, Vice-President Lim mobilized personal connections to persuade the opposition Liberal Korean Party lawmakers to pass Supreme Court Kim’s appointment motion to the National Assembly in September 2017. What happened between the two over the next three years and four months, did they decide to release the recording file that would shake the entire judiciary?

“I was driven to a dead end… a terrible feeling”

“Two days before Kim Myung-soo’s Appointment-dong, I sincerely helped’Help me'”

– Supreme Court Chief Kim and Deputy Chief Judge Lim said that although they weren’t too bad, they were close friends as two seniors and juniors. From 2011 to 2013, he served as the chief judge of the Seoul High Court, and the chairman of the court’Sanwoohoe’ was also served by Deputy Chief Judge Lim two years later, under President Kim’s.

President Moon Jae-in appointed then-Chuncheon District Court Chief Kim Myung-soo as the successor of Supreme Court Chief Yang Seung-tae, who retired in September 2017, and asked the National Assembly for consent for appointment. On the 19th of the same month, two days before the vote for approval, after being nominated by the Supreme Court Chief Kim, he called Judge Lim and asked “help the opposition Liberal Korean Party lawmakers to agree.”

“I have sincerely helped through many people I know among opposition lawmakers and senior high school seniors. After being passed, Supreme Court President Kim also said,’Thank you, let’s have a drink of soju’.”


However, after Kim was inaugurated as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, Yang Seung-tae, who was the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, was separated by a special investigation group for the judicial nongdan and the judicial blacklist.

“After that, I felt very disappointed in splitting the court side while adopting a certain study group.”


This is because Judge Lim was not only the subject of a judicial nongdan investigation by the prosecution in 2019 due to the so-called’Sewol 7 Hour’ trial intervention case, but was also referred to the judges’ disciplinary committee by Chief Justice Kim. Deputy Judge Lim was handed over to trial for intervening in the case of defamation of former Seoul Bureau Chief Kato Tatsuya, who raised suspicions about former President Park Geun-hye’s actions on the day of the sinking of the Sewol ferry, and was sentenced to acquittal at the first trial in February last year.

Immediately after the sentence of the first trial, Judge Lim expressed his appreciation for health problems several times, but the relationship worsened when Supreme Court Chief Kim rejected it. Supreme Court Chief Kim reportedly said, “Come after surgery,” when he tried to resign in late April of last year before surgery such as kidney stones.

President Moon Jae-in shakes hands with Chief Justice Kim Myung-soo at the ceremony for the awarding of the retired Supreme Court Justice held at the Blue House on May 22 last year. Newsis


On May 22, after officially resigning from the court administration office, Supreme Court President Kim said, “(At the ruling party) I’m installing like that for impeachment, but if I accept the resignation, what will the National Assembly hear?I said. “If you just fix it today, you won’t be able to talk about impeachment. It’s not very appropriate for (I) to be blamed like thatIt was also said.

“I had already said,’I will leave the court’ in the first trial court. After being acquitted in the first trial, I went down to Busan, and after two months, my body became extremely bad and I had to schedule an operation. He resigned, saying, “It’s not a good idea to the people,” but he suddenly came up with the impeachment talk.” The Supreme Court’s politician noticed this, and I was greatly shocked by the fact that it was just after the 4/15 general election, but the 21st National Assembly member was not formed. Was.”


Accordingly, in advance of the regular greetings held in early February of this year, he requested voluntary resignation in order to appoint a successor, but he was denied, saying, “If your term of office expires at the end of February, you should retire.”

Supreme Court Chief Kim’s recording file released to the truth workshop

– The decisive moment for Judge Lim to unveil the recording files was the decisive moment when the impeachment remarks were known through media reports on the 3rd, and then Chief Justice Kim denied that he had never made a statement to the effect that’the resignation cannot be repaired due to the issue of impeachment. It is said to be because of.

Senior Judge Seong-geun Lim (left), Chief Justice of Supreme Court Myung-soo Kim. [연합뉴스]  〈Copyright holder (c) Yonhap News, unauthorized reproduction and redistribution prohibited〉

Senior Judge Seong-geun Lim (left), Chief Justice of Supreme Court Myung-soo Kim. [연합뉴스] 〈Copyright holder (c) Yonhap News, unauthorized reproduction and redistribution prohibited〉

“I’m not confined to a dead end anymore. I couldn’t retire as a liar. As a person who has been in the court for 30 years and loves the court, it is a terrible feeling for me to have a truth battle with the Chief Justice. I had to disclose it because it wasn’t right for the future of the judiciary to lie.”

Impeachment impeachment bill approved… First judge impeachment prosecution

– Despite the release of the recorded file, the impeachment proceeding against Judge Lim passed the plenary session of the National Assembly. At a plenary session on that afternoon, the National Assembly passed the proposal for impeachment of Judge Im in an anonymous vote, passed 179 votes in favor, 102 oppositions, 3 abstentions, and 4 invalids, and handed it over to the Constitutional Court.

Attorney Geun-soo Yoon, an attorney for Deputy Chief Judge Lim, said, “It is difficult to convince and very sorry that the decision was made for impeachment without the fact that the legal evaluation was conducted and the National Assembly judicial committee investigation procedure was omitted with only partial expression of the judgment of the first trial that has not yet been confirmed. “It’s good.”

At a plenary session of the National Assembly on the 4th, when the impeachment prosecution was passed by a judge (Lim Seong-geun, chief judge of the Busan High Court), members of the People's Power are shouting slogans to'impeach Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo.'  Reporter Oh Jong-taek

At a plenary session of the National Assembly on the 4th, when the impeachment prosecution was passed by a judge (Lim Seong-geun, chief judge of the Busan High Court), members of the People’s Power are shouting slogans to’impeach Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo.’ Reporter Oh Jong-taek


If the constitution does not decide to impeach by the 28th, Judge Lim becomes a natural person.

Deputy Judge Im apologized, saying, “I personally left the court in this way, and everything in my 30 years of life as a judge has become a waste of money,” he said. “Anyway, I am very sorry for putting various burdens on the court.” did.

Reporter Kim Soo-min [email protected]



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