Before the National Assembly, he said, "We obtained a clear video (at the time of our investigation in 2013), and we sent it to the Prosecution Service without seeking an expert opinion because we could identify his face (the face of former vice minister Kim) with the naked eye." At the time of the investigation in 2013, the police handed the case over to the prosecutors seeking to prosecute the suspect, but the prosecutors dismissed the case claiming that they could not confirm that the person in the video was Kim. Min Gap-ryong, the commissioner general of the Korean National Police Agency recently made a statement supporting allegations of a poorly conducted investigation by the Prosecution Service in connection to the case of Kim Hak-eui. The cases of Kim Hak-eui and Jang Ja-yeon are subject to an investigation by a justice ministry committee on questionable cases handled by the Prosecution Service in the past and the working-level arm of the committee, an investigation team overseeing past cases at the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office. It is now time to break the chain of this great absurdity.
The recent scandal involving Seungri and Jung Joon-young is also an extension of the violence and exploitation that objectifies women. The truth had been concealed for a long time, while the suffering of the victims and witnesses grew, and the violence, which regarded women as sexual tools, was repeated. Both cases vividly exposed the ethical breakdown of the South Korean society involving sexual exploitation and human rights abuse. Public demand for a re-investigation of Jang Ja-yeon's death and the alleged sex scandal of Kim Hak-eui, a former vice minister of justice, is spreading, as new suspicions and circumstantial evidence point to a poorly conducted investigation.