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Supreme Court Chief Kim Myung-soo has proposed appointment of Chief Justice Cheon Dae-yeop as the replacement of Supreme Court Justice Park Sang-ok, who will retire next month.

After Judge Chun is appointed after a National Assembly personnel hearing, all 13 Supreme Court Justices will be filled with non-prosecutors in six years.



This is reporter Son Hyung-an.  



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Criminal law expert who is counted among the judges, and the most integrity judge among high-ranking judges subject to property disclosure.



Chief Justice of the Seoul High Court Cheon Dae-yeop, who received such an evaluation in the court, was proposed as a candidate for the Supreme Court Chief Justice Myung-Soo Kim.



It is known that the Supreme Court Candidate Nomination Committee also ranked Judge Chun as the top priority.



Therefore, the choice of Supreme Court Chief Kim seems to be a natural step, but some responded that it was unexpected.



This is because retired Supreme Justice Park Sang-ok was a former prosecutor, so it was considered a legal practice to select a successor as a prosecutor.



The so-called'prosecutor's share' of Supreme Court Justice, which began in the days of the Park Chung-hee administration, continued to Justice Ahn Dae-hee.



There was a brief gap for about three years after Ahn's retirement, but since 2015, Justice Park Sang-ok has been in business again.



However, if Deputy Judge Chun is appointed as a successor to Justice Park, there will be no other Supreme Court Justices left for the first time in six years.



Many analyzes say that this situation is not unrelated to the recent mood to reduce the role of the prosecution.



The Constitutional Judge, who also recognized the prosecution's share, disappeared after Judge Ahn Chang-ho retired.



Most of all, it is a result that reflects Chief Justice Kim's usual intention not to admit to the prosecution's share, but some point out that filling the substitutes with Seoul National University judges in their 50s goes against the diversification of the composition of the Supreme Court.



(Video coverage: Seo Jin-ho, Video editing: So Ji-hye)