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Judge named in Kim Seung-won drug lobbying allegations says he has no comment

From Dong-A Ilbo · () Korean

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  • A Seoul Central District Court senior judge mentioned in alleged lobbying involving justice minister nominee Kim Seung-won said he had no comment.
  • The judge issued the statement through the court four days after media reports published a 2022 photograph showing him with Kim and an alleged broker.
  • Kim said he had only encountered the two by chance at a private gathering and had no subsequent contact with them.

A senior Seoul Central District Court judge named in the alleged lobbying controversy surrounding justice minister nominee Kim Seung-won has said he has nothing to add.

The judge, identified only by his surname initial as Chung, conveyed the statement through the court on the 7th: “I inform you that I currently have no separate position to state regarding this matter.”

The court’s public information officer said inquiries had increased about issues involving a judge from the court and the justice minister nominee, and that the statement was being delivered on the judge’s behalf.

The judge’s response came four days after media reports published a photograph from around February 2022 showing Chung with Kim and Yang, described in the reports as a broker. Chung and Kim had previously worked together at the Jeonju District Court in 2002.

Kim said on the 4th that he had only happened to encounter Chung and Yang at a private gathering in February 2022, and that he had neither met nor contacted them afterward.

I inform you that I currently have no separate position to state regarding this matter.

· Chung, a senior judge at Seoul Central District CourtThe judge issued the statement through the court after being named in the alleged lobbying controversy.
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