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A personnel hearing on Supreme Court candidate Seok-Jun Oh is in progress at the National Assembly.
There was a ruling that it was justified that Candidate Oh fired the bus driver for embezzling 800 won in the past.
Correspondent Hong Young-jae.
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Candidate Seok-Jun Oh, the first Supreme Court candidate nominated by the Yoon Seok-Yeol administration.
In his greetings, he said that he takes the situation that the judiciary does not have the trust of the people seriously.
[Suk-Jun Oh / Candidate for Supreme Court Justice: The court needs to put more effort into earning the trust of the people.
First of all, the judges and the judiciary must appear independent and neutral in the eyes of the public.] In the
hearing of the hearing committee, the issue was the ruling that Candidate Oh justified the dismissal of a bus driver who embezzled 800 won in bus fares in 2011.
[Suk-Jun Oh / Candidate for Supreme Court Justice: (Can you briefly explain on what basis this case is judged like this?) As a result, my heart is heavy to think that he may be suffering from my judgment.
] After the dismissal of the bus driver, he criticized that he had to work at a construction site without a job for 10 years to support the livelihood of his five family members, and Oh admitted some responsibility.
[Suk-Jun Oh / Candidate for Supreme Court Justice: I tried to take into account the circumstances within the possible range of this and that, but there were parts that I did not look at, and these are typical examples of such things…
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Candidate Oh also apologized for omitting the money that his wife lent to the eldest daughter and wife when reporting the property of a public official, saying that there was an error in the reporting process.
Regarding the allegation of falsely reporting the value of an officetel in her spouse's name, she explained that she reported it normally as of 2013, when she was subject to property disclosure, and did not intend to report falsely.