Lim Eun-jung, Head of Gwangju Major Crime Investigation Agency, Arrives at Work Without Comment on Inspection

Lim Eun-jung, head of the Gwangju Major Crime Investigation Agency, who faces an internal inspection by the Ministry of the Interior and Safety over her public criticism of Kim Ji-yong, the nominee for the inaugural chief of the Major Crime Investigation Agency, arrived at work on the morning of October 12 without making any public appearance.

At 8:55 a.m., Lim entered her office through a restricted underground parking lot without speaking to reporters waiting in front of the agency building in Jungheung-dong, Buk-gu, Gwangju.

Lim's side had announced in advance that she would not be making any statement on her way to work, and Lim passed by waiting reporters while remaining inside her vehicle.

She conveyed that her Facebook post from the previous day would stand as her statement regarding the ministry's inspection.

Minister of the Interior and Safety Yun Ho-jung wrote on X (formerly Twitter) the previous day that he had ordered an inspection into Lim, who has repeatedly criticized Kim, the inaugural chief nominee, in public since last month.

Minister Yun criticized her, saying, "Head Lim seems to mistake the Major Crime Investigation Agency for a political organization rather than an investigative agency."

Lim subsequently shared her thoughts on Facebook, writing, "While perhaps not as lamentable as former prosecutor Kim Ji-yong being nominated as the inaugural chief of the agency, it is very regrettable and sorrowful that I have become the agency's very first target of an internal inspection."

She added, "During my time at the prosecution, I exercised my right to object to a superior's order directing a blank sentencing recommendation in a retrial case involving historical affairs, and after posting a disciplinary petition on the prosecution's internal network, I faced heavy disciplinary action for tarnishing dignity and other reasons. Just as I won the lawsuit to revoke that disciplinary measure, established procedural regulations for the right to object, and brought about improvements in practice, I will handle this matter well with a sense of duty."
 
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