2) Act in contempt of the constitutional institutions
A) The respondent violated Articles 66(2), 69 and 78 of the Constitution and Article 7(1) of the National Intelligence Service Act, in
ignoring the impropriety recommendation by the National Assembly
Confirmation Hearing Committee on April 25, 2003, for Ko Young-gu,
as the head of the National Intelligence Service.
B) The respondent violated Articles 66(2) and 69 of the Constitution, Article 63 of the National Public Official Act, and Article 311 of
the Criminal Code, in describing the then incumbent members of the
National Assembly as 'weeds to be mowed' in his open letter to the
public via the Internet on May 8, 2003.
C) The respondent violated Articles 63(1), 66(2) and 69 of the
Constitution, in taking the position that seemed to refuse the National Assembly resolution of September 3, 2003 that proposed the removal
of Kim Doo-kwan from the office of the Minister of Government Administration and Home Affairs, by postponing the acceptance of such
resolution.
D) The respondent violated Articles 40, 66(2), and 69 of the Constitution, in (i) expressing regrettableness on March 4, 2004 towards
the National Election Commission's decision requesting the President
to observe the neutrality obligation concerning elections, through the
Senior Secretary to the President for Public Information; (ii) denigrating
the current election laws, on the same date, as the 'vestige of the era
of the government-power-interfered-elections'; and, (iii) on March 8,
devaluating his violation of Article 9 of the Public Officials Election
Act as 'miscellaneous' and 'minor and equivocal.'
E) The respondent violated Articles 65(1), 66(2) and 69 of the
Constitution, in stating on March 8, 2004 that the National Assembly's
moving forward on the impeachment proposal was an 'unjust oppression.'
F) The respondent violated Articles 66(2), 69 and 72 of the Constitution, in stating at a press conference on October 10, 2003 that,
with respect to the suspicion as to Choi Do-sul's reception of the
secret fund from the SK Group, "when the investigation closes, I
will ask the public the confidence in the President concerning the
public distrust accumulated during the past including this matter";
and stating at the policy speech on the state affairs at the National
Assembly on October 13 that "the vote of confidence will be feasible
even under the current law upon reaching a political agreement
although there are some legal arguments upon it," "although a way
to associate the vote of confidence with certain policies is under
discussion, it would rather not be done that way and none of the
conditions will be attached," and "if I win the vote of confidence, I
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