{"id":146529,"date":"2026-09-07T23:33:27","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/146529\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T23:33:27","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T23:33:27","slug":"lee-names-kim-ji-yong-as-first-chief-of-new-crime-investigation-agency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/146529\/","title":{"rendered":"Lee Names Kim Ji-yong as First Chief of New Crime Investigation Agency"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" alt=\"Interior and Safety Minister Yun Ho-jung said at a briefing at the Government Complex Seoul on Feb. 7 that he plans to recommend to President Lee Jae-myung that Kim Ji-yong, a former prosecutor and now an attorney, be named the inaugural head of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency. Yonhap News - Seoul Economic Daily Politics News from South Korea\" title=\"Lee Names Kim Ji-yong as First Chief of New Crime Investigation Agency\" width=\"1200\" height=\"675\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"w-full h-auto rounded-sm\" style=\"color:transparent;object-fit:contain;object-position:center\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/rcv.YNA.20260907.PYH2026090718970001300_P2.jpg\"\/>Interior and Safety Minister Yun Ho-jung said at a briefing at the Government Complex Seoul on Feb. 7 that he plans to recommend to President Lee Jae-myung that Kim Ji-yong, a former prosecutor and now an attorney, be named the inaugural head of the Serious Crimes Investigation Agency. Yonhap News<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">PARIS \u2014 President Lee Jae-myung will ask the National Assembly to hold a confirmation hearing for attorney Kim Ji-yong, the final candidate to head the new Major Crimes Investigation Agency, the presidential office said on the 7th.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Kang Yu-jung, senior presidential spokesperson, said at a briefing in Paris that Lee had decided to nominate Kim, who was recommended for appointment by the interior and safety minister, as the first chief of the agency and to request a parliamentary confirmation hearing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">&#8220;We judged that Kim, as an expert in investigative law, is the right person to quickly establish the agency, which is set to launch on Oct. 1,&#8221; Kang said. &#8220;Under the new criminal justice system that separates investigation from prosecution, we expect Kim to successfully lead the agency based on his investigative experience and capabilities.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-[var(--color-text)] leading-relaxed\">Lee is visiting France to attend the Lumiere Summit, a film and video industry summit held in Saint-Paul-de-Vence.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Interior and Safety Minister Yun Ho-jung said at a briefing at the Government Complex Seoul on Feb. 7&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":146530,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[26946,16915,74301,31,146,8509,5524,33],"class_list":["post-146529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-south-korea","tag-confirmation-hearing","tag-criminal-justice-reform","tag-kim-ji-yong","tag-korea","tag-lee-jae-myung","tag-major-crimes-investigation-agency","tag-national-assembly","tag-south-korea"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=146529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146529\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/146530"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=146529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=146529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/korea\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=146529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}