President Yoon Suk Yeol on Sunday named Shim Woo-jung, the vice justice minister, to be the new prosecutor general, his office said.Shim, 53, has been tapped to be the new prosecution chief who will replace Prosecutor General Lee One-seok, according to presidential chief of staff Chung Jin-suk. Lee's two-year term will end next month.In 1994, Shim passed the national bar exam and joined the Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office as a prosecutor in 2000. Since then, he served in senior positions in the Seoul prosecutors' office, the justice ministry and the Supreme Prosecutors Office (SPO).Chung said Shim is regarded as a suitable figure to lead the prosecution to ensure its primary role in upholding the Constitution and protecting people."Shim has good knowledge of criminal procedures and the prosecution system, and has a firm belief about the establishment of the rule of law," Chung told a press briefing.After going through a parliamentary confirmation hearing, Shim will become the second prose cutor general under the Yoon administration.President Yoon was former prosecutor general in 2019-2021 under the administration of ex-liberal President Moon Jae-in.Recently, the SPO and the Seoul prosecution office showed a rift over prosecutors' closed-door questioning of first lady Kim Keon Hee.In July, the Seoul prosecutors' office questioned Kim over allegations that she received a Christian Dior handbag and other expensive gifts from a pastor, as well as her alleged involvement in a stock manipulation case. She was grilled face-to-face at an undisclosed government building.Prosecutor General Lee expressed his frustrations that he had been in the dark about Kim's questioning. It turned out that Lee Chang-soo, chief of the Seoul prosecution office, belatedly reported to Lee about the investigation into Kim.Source: Yonhap News Agency