Lim Eun-jung, the new head of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office, said, “I will play the..

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Lim Eun-jung, the new head of the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office, said, “I will play the role of a ‘philosopher’ who finishes an era of prosecution.”

Lim said this on his Facebook page on the afternoon of the 6th, delivering his first thoughts on going to work. “I once attended the Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office as a reference to the fact-finding team launched by prosecutor Seo Ji-hyun’s Me Too in February 2018,” he recalled. “If it had been fixed properly at that time, the tsunami of investigation structure reform would not have been pushed so hard.”

“I wanted to be a doctor who fixes the prosecution, but I’ve thought for a long time that I’ll be an undertaker who holds a prosecution’s funeral due to my lack of ability,” he said. “A new era will be opened only when an era is completed well, so I think the undertaker is also a very important role and I’m determined to handle it well.”

Referring to the case where investigators at the Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office decided to file a class action against the prosecution’s leadership’s decision in the past, Lim said, “The oppression of the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office, including personnel disadvantages, was so severe that it was eventually suppressed, but I think it would be worth trying here (the Eastern District Prosecutors’ Office) because the DNA of the decision was alive.”