Overview

• The bill passed in a 194-3 vote with one abstention in the Democratic Party-led assembly to establish a permanent special counsel.
• Investigations will cover 11 allegations including insurrection and military mutiny tied to Yoon’s failed December martial law decree.
• Companion measures created special counsel investigations into alleged stock manipulation by former first lady Kim Keon Hee and executive interference in a Marine’s death inquiry.
• Most People Power Party lawmakers boycotted the session in protest of the ruling party’s unilateral passage of the bills.
• Lawmakers also enacted legislation empowering the justice minister to directly request disciplinary action against prosecutors.