Justice Minister Jung Sung-ho said April 24 that he will work to build a South Korea where “justice and human rights” are part of everyday life and where people respect and embrace one another “within the framework of the rule of law.”
In remarks at the 63rd Law Day ceremony, Jung said it is the Ministry of Justice’s “solemn mandate” to help the constitutional values “protected by the sovereign people” take root through human rights and the rule of law.
He said the spirit of the law includes restraining abuses by the strong and helping the weak, as well as correcting past wrongs.
Law Day is a national observance established to reaffirm the dignity of the law and promote public respect for legal compliance.
The Ministry of Justice held this year’s event under the theme “Constitutional order protected by the people, achieving human rights and the rule of law,” to commemorate what it called a historic episode in which South Korea’s constitutional order was defended against the Dec. 3 emergency martial law.
Attendees included Supreme Court Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae, Constitutional Court Chief Justice Kim Sang-hwan, National Assembly Legislation and Judiciary Committee Chair Seo Young-kyo of the Democratic Party, and Korea Bar Association President Kim Jung-wook, among other legal leaders.
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