Korean Bar Association Revokes Yoon Suk Yeol's Lawyer License Following 7-Year Prison Sentence

The Korean Bar Association has revoked the lawyer license of former President Yoon Suk Yeol, who was sentenced to seven years in prison for obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant by the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials.

The Korean Bar Association announced yesterday (July 28) that it has canceled Yoon's lawyer registration in accordance with the Attorney-at-Law Act.

Under the Attorney-at-Law Act, if a registered lawyer receives a final and conclusive sentence of imprisonment without prison labor or heavier, it constitutes a disqualifying ground, requiring the Minister of Justice to order the Korean Bar Association to revoke the registration.

On the 9th of this month, the Supreme Court finalized the lower court's ruling sentencing Yoon to seven years in prison on charges including special obstruction of official duties and abuse of power.

The charges included obstructing the execution of an arrest warrant by the corruption investigation agency in January of last year, infringing on the deliberation rights by summoning only certain state council members to create merely the appearance of a cabinet meeting prior to the declaration of martial law, and creating and subsequently discarding a false martial law proclamation as if the martial law had been enacted based on a document countersigned after the lifting of martial law.

Yoon, who completed the Judicial Research and Training Institute as part of the 23rd class in 1994, served as a prosecutor for several years, worked at the law firm Bae, Kim & Lee for about a year in 2002, and later returned to the prosecution service, holding key positions such as Chief Prosecutor of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office and Prosecutor General.

(Photo provided by the Seoul Central District Court, Yonhap News)
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