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The essence of today's (9th) ruling is that even when the government changes and a new government is launched, and the existing people must be changed drastically, the procedure and means must be legal.
Failing to do so and forcing resignations in bulk is an illegal practice to be broken, the judge said.
This is reporter Jung Yoon-sik.
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Two years ago, after the blacklist allegations of the Ministry of Environment were first reported, the passport leadership said that there was nothing wrong with it.
[Hong Young-pyo/At the time, Democratic Party leader: It is not an illegal blacklist, but a legitimate checklist.
It is not a problem for the new minister to evaluate and supervise the executives of the affiliated agencies (it is a legitimate person.)]
But today the court's judgment was different.
Former Minister Kim Eun-kyung's officials from the Ministry of Environment determined that it was an obvious abuse of personnel rights.
Former Minister Kim said that it was ex officio abuse that he requested to submit resignations in order to change executives elected under the former regime. I did it.'
Despite Kim's assertion that it was a measure to appoint a person who shares the philosophy of state administration, and that it was practiced in the previous government, the court also nailed it as ``an illegal practice that must be severely defeated even if it is illegal and evil.
This ruling is in line with the Supreme Court's judgment on the cultural blacklist case during the Park Geun-hye administration.
Former secretary chief Kim Ki-chun and former vice minister Kim Jong-deok, who led the list at the time, were also convicted for the same purpose.
The current government, which was criticizing the cultural blacklist, said it was difficult to receive the same judicial judgment, but the Blue House said it had no special position.
(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, video editing: Commissioner Yang)
▶'Ministry of Environment Blacklist' Kim Eun-kyung, former Minister of Justice