Prosecution reform architect tapped as justice minister

A former judge who became a leading architect of the ruling party’s prosecution overhaul has been nominated to lead Korea’s Justice Ministry. Kim Seung-won, 57, is a two-term Democratic Party lawmaker and a member of the National Assembly’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee. Born in Suwon, Gyeonggi Province, in 1969, Kim studied law at Seoul National University and passed the bar in 1996. He joined the bench in 2002, serving at the Jeonju and Suwon district courts, before leaving in 2009 to pr