Yoon Seok-yeol finally resigns

Prosecutor General Yoon Seok-yeol represents the conservative resistance of the old order in South Korea to legal reforms aimed at two goals. The first, elimination of the protection that a corrupt legal system provides to politicians and corporate interests who have committed crimes (deep seated evil of the special interests). Second, elimination of the systemic graft induced by the partisan complicity of prosecutors, judges, and the media, manipulating the legal system against those who seek to reform it.

Yoon still had almost five months left in his official term of office as an appointee. He left the office because of investigations into various scandals involving him, his family, and close allies inside the prosecutors offices. As the ranks of his followers inside the office have been eroded by personnel changes during his almost continuous disputes and controversies with three different Justice Ministers, the office of Prosecutor General no longer affords a sufficient power base for him to keep himself, family members and prosecutor associates from being investigated or indicted. In addition, a new law by the National Assembly requires government lawyers and judges who desire to be candidates for elected office to resign one year before the pertinent election. So despite Yoon's purported resignation on principle, he resigned for personal reasons.

(Source- 알리미 황희두 youtube 3.5) The video's synopsis: Yoon's wife will be subpoenaed surely...Sniping against prosecutors, (conservative) Hong Jun-pyo, "splitting investigatory powers is not against democracy"...Netizens are cool toward Hwang Kyo-ahn comeback. This editorial presentation gives Yoon's retirement statement an "F" grade for duplicity.

Yoon is a leading, if not the leading conservative hopeful for presidential office in April 2022. By moving out of the Prosecutor General's office, he has made a tactical decision, that his political prospects as a presidential candidate will provide a more favorable opportunity to characterize criminal investigations of his corruption as political persecution and evidence that the democratic Moon administration is totalitarian in nature and bent on destroying the constitution.

The corruption imputed to Yoon has been the subject of continuous coverage of independent investigative media on the internet. As he had grown more politically aligned with the conservative political opposition, and more confrontational, his public support has declined. Most progressives welcome his resignation and prefer a conservative candidate with a record tainted with credible allegations of corruption. One has to wonder if he won't be indicted or arrested before the campaign season begins. His public statements about resigning as a matter of principle in defense of the "rule of law," appear to be little more than self serving hypocrisy.