# Lee-era special-prosecutor cluster opens on the martial-law and related files Date: 2025 ## The fact In the first weeks of the presidency the Democratic Party majority and Lee administration launched and funded a cluster of special-prosecutor investigations into Yoon-era martial law, related insurrection counts, and neighbouring scandals, including later extra-budget lines for extensions. ## Context 3 December 2024 sat as parent. Neighbouring prosecution-reform plan is a child institutional agenda. He did not sit as every special prosecutor. A special counsel is still ordinary Korean accountability weather, remaining polarisation named. Martial-law 3 December 2024 is the parent shock Yoon authored. Prosecution-reform 13 August is a neighbouring institutional agenda. Article 84 is a neighbouring stay of Lee’s own file. The President of the Republic of Korea is head of state and of the executive, appoints the prime minister with [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) consent, and commands the armed forces. The National Assembly enacts statutes. The Bank of Korea sets the policy rate. Courts, including the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court, judge. Chaebol boards, US Forces Korea, and provincial governments share later series. A Seongnam mayoral youth dividend or debt moratorium is not a 2025 statute. A criminal case must be stored with exact charge and judgment status — an allegation, indictment, first-instance finding, appellate acquittal, Supreme Court remand, or Article 84 stay is not a completed conviction if appealed, overturned, or pending. He did not author Yoon Suk Yeol’s 3 December 2024 martial-law decree. ## Evidence and sources Presidential Office of the Republic of Korea carries the official instrument or communique. The Diplomat records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [political polarization](/drivers/political-polarization) and justice: a completed ruling-party special-prosecutor cluster after an insurrection shock. ## What is established and what is not Established: 2025 special-prosecutor cluster on martial-law and related files, independently reported. Not established: a unique later body-count or a unique later conviction of every named aide from that July. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. He owned executive cooperation. Special prosecutors investigate. Courts will judge.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Lee-era special-prosecutor cluster opens on the martial-law and related files, not a later speech about Lee-era special-prosecutor cluster opens on the martial-law and related files. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Lee-era special-prosecutor cluster opens on the martial-law and related files on 2025-07-01 is not a licence to treat every later Presidential Office of the Republic of Korea communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Lee-era special-prosecutor cluster opens on the martial-law and related files into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The Assembly majority funded. He owned executive cooperation. Special prosecutors investigate. Courts will judge. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lee Jae Myung: https://factrail.ai/people/lee-jae-myung ## Drivers - Political Polarization: https://factrail.ai/drivers/political-polarization - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://thediplomat.com/2025/12/the-lee-jae-myung-administrations-2025-in-review/ - https://english.president.go.kr/ ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kr-lee-special-prosecutors-2025