The list of witnesses for the personnel hearing of Kim Seung-won, nominee for Minister of Justice, is clashing in the negotiations between the ruling and opposition party leaders. The People Power Party is demanding witnesses such as Yang Mo, a lobbying broker, who is suspected of asking for approval of clinical trials for COVID-19 treatments on behalf of Kim, but the Democratic Party is opposing this, saying that the case ended with prosecution probation. While the People Power Party urges the adoption of witnesses to resolve suspicions, the Democratic Party argues that any negative evaluation of Kim Seung-won was an intention to attack him by the Yoon Suk-yeol administration and Han Dong-hoon, the then Minister of Justice, and criticizes the demand for witness adoption. The leaders of both parties are expected to continue negotiating the witness list until midnight.
