Noh Kyung-pil, head of the court administration office, said that if the president refuses to appoint a Supreme Court justice nominee after a National Assembly personnel hearing, the chief justice of the Supreme Court should re-nominate. He replied that the administrative office had various opinions on the Blue House's request for re-nomination, but if the Blue House clearly indicates its refusal to nominate, it would re-nominate. He denied suspicions that Chief Justice Cho Hee-dae refused to re-nominate and explained that he reported several options related to re-nomination during the consultation process with the Blue House. He also apologized for a numerical entry error regarding suspicions of "inflating the number of attendees" for operational promotion expenses.
