Sohee Lee of the Opposition Party: "Seungwon Kim, Who Abolished Key Supplementary Investigation Authority for Women's Safety, Is Unfit for Justice Minister"

"Seungwon Kim, the driving force behind the bill"

Sohee Lee, a lawmaker with the People Power Party, criticized the nomination of Seungwon Kim from the Democratic Party of Korea for the post of Minister of Justice on the 15th, stating, "Handing the Ministry of Justice, which is supposed to protect crime victims, to the hands that abolished the supplementary investigation rights—the last line of defense for women in their 20s and 30s—is unacceptable. He is unfit to serve as Minister of Justice."

Rep. Lee held a debate in the 2nd Meeting Room of the National Assembly Members' Office Building that day, saying, "(Nominee Kim) pushed for the bill abolishing supplementary investigation rights as the Democratic Party’s secretary on the Legislation and Judiciary Committee and personally introduced it at the plenary session," directly pointing this out.

Rep. Sohee Lee of the People Power Party is speaking at the debate titled "The Life of Youths Abandoned by the Lee Jae-myung Administration - Who Protects the Daily Safety of Women in Their 20s and 30s After the Abolition of the Supplementary Investigation Rights," held in the 2nd Meeting Room of the National Assembly Members' Office Building. Courtesy of Rep. Sohee Lee's Office

The topic of the debate was "The Life of Youths Abandoned by the Lee Jae-myung Administration – Who Protects the Daily Safety of Women in Their 20s and 30s After the Abolition of the Supplementary Investigation Rights." Rep. Lee co-hosted the event with lawmakers Mija Lim, Yangsoo Lee, Seunghwan Cho, Yongtae Kim, and Jaeseop Kim from the People Power Party. The party's Policy Committee and the Yeouido Institute also participated.

Lee emphasized, "For young women, safety is not a secondary issue—it is the prerequisite for employment, independence, and everyday activities like walking at night." She added, "But the response from the Lee Jae-myung administration was the exact opposite. The Democratic Party pushed through the bill abolishing the supplementary investigation rights, and President Lee Jae-myung promulgated it without exercising his veto."

Rep. Lee continued, "The Lee Jae-myung administration worried about prosecutors investigating them, but not about young women walking home at night," adding, "He is a president who has abandoned the youth—a ‘Cheongpodae’ (an abbreviation for 'president who gives up on youth')." She further stated, regarding the president's declining approval ratings, "Now, it is the youth who have started to give up on the president who has given up on them."

On that day, attorney Sehee Kim—formerly a prosecutor at the Busan District Prosecutors’ Office who investigated the so-called Busan “Dollyeo-chigi” incident—gave the keynote presentation. Kim expressed concern over the revised bill, saying, "If the (criminal procedure) amendment had been in effect at the time of the incident, we would not have been able to summon the suspect and would have only been able to send a single written request to the police."

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