Chapter 134 – Courtesy of All Officials (3)
It’s a bit of a sudden question, but how much money do judges really make?
First, let’s look at the salary.
“Do you guys know how much the starting salary for a judge is?”
Tia got lost for a while at my sudden question, then she replied without much hesitation.
“Um… About 5,000?”
“Ah, it’s too little anyway.”
It was natural for Alice to react like that.
Judges can be seen as the highest elite among public officials in Korea.
That’s why they have a starting salary of 5,000.
But I had no choice but to raise Tia’s hand her.
“Oh, you got it roughly the same?”
“What? Really?”
“Wow!”
While Tia enjoys a minor victory.
I explained in a bit more detail.
“The salary of a first-time judge is about 3.6 million won… For reference, it’s an assumption that he graduated from the Judicial Research and Training Institute.
“The salary is… 360? It’s about 4300 even if you get it for 12 months, right?”
I knew that the salaries of public officials in Korea were high, but I never thought it would be this much.
Alice was stunned with such a face.
Of course, it’s too early to be disappointed.
“Calm down. You should look at the salary of civil servants in the long run.”
“That’s right?”
“Judges, like civil servants, receive various allowances. First of all, subsidy for the position. Judges with less than 10 years of legal experience receive 500,000 won per month.”
Then add 50X12 = 600 to 4300 from before to get 4900.
So far, it’s exactly as Tia expected.
Of course, considering the murderous workload of the judges, overtime will be filmed to the limit every month, so in reality it will be more than 5,000.
Of course, it is foolish to discuss civil servants based only on the initial salary.
Isn’t the greatest strength of civil servants none other than stability?
In particular, judges’ salaries rise rapidly as their ranks pile up.
Civil servants usually earn twice as much as their starting salary.
Judges say this is about 2.5 times.
Besides, I haven’t even checked the jeonggeun allowance yet.
Since judges are also public officials, they naturally receive punctuality allowances, a bonus concept exclusively for public officials.
For reference, if you work for more than 10 years, 50% of your monthly salary comes in twice a year.
“Actually, you get paid 13 times a year.”
“Take it a little simpler.”
For reference, the salary of a judge builds much more slowly than that of an ordinary civil servant.
It takes 1 year and 9 months to accumulate the first paycheck.
From the 14th peak, the period actually increases.
Anyway, if you overcome all the difficulties and accumulate up to the 17th salary, your monthly salary will be a whopping 850.
The monthly subsidy for position is 950,000 won.
If a judge with salary No. 17 works while taking care of the allowance, the annual salary is about 120 million won.
This can never be considered low.
But… Would a billion-dollar annual salary be enough?
In Korea, less than 5% of those who report their income properly receive an annual salary of 100 million won.
However, the judge is a talent far beyond the top 5%.
However, this is not the logic that a person who does important work should get paid more.
You should listen to Korean until the end.
“Think about it. Living buried under a mountain of documents every day, ruling billions and tens of billions of lawsuits, the person himself is receiving only 100 million won each time…”
In fact, this is not much different from the workers.
However, there is one element that is crucially different for judges from ordinary office workers…
It’s just business discretion.
In a trial, there is a lot of room for the discretion of the judge.
On such a subject, the judge is not punished even if he makes a mistake.
If the judge is determined and makes a mistake, there is little way to use his hands.
It is truly a perfect environment for infidelity.
“Imagine that you retired after receiving 100 million won a year as a judge.
“Yes, he must be a lawyer.”
Yes.
You can’t work as a judge and then quit and suddenly become a taxi driver.
Since I have been working in the legal profession all my life, it is only natural to re-employ in the same system.
It is from this point that the evil of being treated favorably by all officials arises.
Unlike the civil servant society, an environment where you can take tens of thousands of won at a time as a commission fee.
Lawyers who are courteous to the former mobilize all their abilities and personal connections to cooperate in the resolution of the case.
In fact, there is a high probability that it is not even aware that it is illegal.
Not too long ago, he himself was the law, so what kind of guy is breaking the law?
Of course, no matter how rampant the former lawyers may be, it will be useless if the prosecutors and judges do not cooperate…
Incumbent prosecutors and judges are also willing to cooperate with them.
This is because they themselves must receive the former courtesy later.
It is the strength of the strong cartel formed at the Judicial Research and Training Institute.
No matter how proud you are, there is no guarantee that you will be able to stay in public office forever.
That’s what I know best, no one else.
If a junior jockey has a higher rank than you, or if you are pushed out of politics, you have to leave the organization even if you don’t like it.
From then on, they too benefit from the courtesy of former officials.
As soon as he leaves public office, he gets a job at a large corporation or a law firm, and then works casually, earning a fee three times that of an ordinary lawyer.
100 million in just one month. A new world that expands to 1 billion units in one year.
This should be enough to be called severance pay.
If I don’t do something with these guys right away, no matter how well I investigate, it’s useless.
There is no guarantee that the 4th generation chaebol directly killed the chaebol, so it is a perfect case to subtly turn it into a collection of milk.
“Then what should I do? Should I ask Yeriel-sister for help?”
“No. Yeriel is not from the legal profession.”
The place where the name of Yeriel exerts its greatest power is none other than the hunter industry.
You can do it if you want to, but I don’t want to overuse my wife’s name her.
I was about to look up the names of the judges, and suddenly felt unfair.
“Wait, come to think of it, the judges were originally supposed to be in charge of the president of the association, right?”
Of course, it would be difficult for even the president of the association to use his hand in the Supreme Court, but …
You can’t just do easy things in life anyway.
I immediately pressed the button on the elevator and changed my destination to the president’s office.
Tring!
The president of the association greeted us with a very embarrassed face as we had not even called in advance.
“Uh, uh uh? What happened all of a sudden?”
“Chairman, do you know the case under investigation?”
“It’s a mess right now because of that! The active hunter was beaten to death like a dog…”
“Then you should definitely take care of that?”
I said while showing the list of former lawyers appointed by the Hanam Group.
“You guys, take care of yourself.”
“What? All attorneys? How do I deal with that?”
He protested to me with a very unfair face.
Whenever politicians try to trap the chaebols, it is these former lawyers who become a stumbling block.
Realists of hereditary innocence, who will make you a housekeeper if you give them money.
Even the president of the association is not a very friendly opponent.
However, I had a rough idea of what kind of person the president of the association was.
This old man is not such a clean person either.
You can tell from the fact that he entrusted me with the work in Japan last time.
“I’ll leave it up to you.”
“Leave it to me… Are you sure the conglomerate committed the assault?”
“We are investigating.”
“It’s not even investigated yet, so you’re saying you’re going to get rid of the lawyer first?”
“I haven’t even been arrested yet, but don’t you know when you see that I’ve appointed a lawyer first? I don’t know what that bastard did, but it means that at least 3 years in prison is the default!”
Hanam Group is not a top-notch group in Korea.
The second son of the chairman was arrested, and it is clear that there is something in it, seeing as the former attorney was elected.
Where did it cost a penny or two to hire a public attorney?
I made a strong request to the president of the association.
“If things don’t go right this time, everything that happened in Japan will be exposed!”
“Ah, no such…”
“If the sentence imposed by the court is a little short, the Hanam Group, the judge, the lawyer, and even the president of the association are all searched for. Do you understand?”
“Good job!”
Tia was right next to me shouting excitedly and got hit.
Back in the office, we immediately began investigating the victim’s colleagues.
Maybe the victim’s popularity of her was not very great, but her colleagues noticed that she was more devastated than sad.
“Is Harin really dead?”
“Yes. Has Harin Choi been acting strangely lately?”
“Harin-san, it’s always been a bit strange. We’re in the same guild, but we’ve never spoken properly. Of course, since we’re electronic hunters, our duties are very different.”
“Should I say it’s a little 4-dimensional, or should I call it a radio system…”
“I used to quietly disappear before it was time to go to work. I did a good job, though.”
Colleagues’ evaluation of the victim, Harin Choi, was very ambiguous.
In particular, the evaluation of work attitude is quite poor.
Alice immediately frowned, saying that she was suspicious.
“Leave work on time at the guild? This sounds suspicious, right?”
“Um… Is that enough?”
“Even if it’s in the electronic field, the work is obvious anyway. For hunters, a guild can be said to be everything. The Cheongpung Guild is not a small guild with five or six employees. It’s good to receive.”
Even before Alice entered the special unit, she said that she never dreamed of leaving work on time.
Even though she was one of the best S ranks in Korea.
After hearing her testimony of her, I nodded her head without hesitation.
“Mmm, if you’re like that, that’s really serious.”
“Eh… Why is it like that?”
“Yeah, if you’re second to none… Hey, you’re working!”
Let’s continue the investigation while avoiding Alice’s fist…
One thing became clear.
“The victim, Harin Choi, seems to have been in the soybean field?”
“Soybean fields? Where exactly?”
“I don’t know. Anyway, I don’t think I was a drug addict. I don’t see anything wrong with my bank account.
“…”
Alice has become a face that is difficult to describe in my expression.
In the meantime, the results of the autopsy on the victim Choi Harin finally came out.
I frowned upon accepting the letter of opinion that seemed to directly refute the opinion of a moment ago.
“What, the drug reaction came out of the body? I thought that Hunter was not sane and attacked by civilians, but…”
“So, where did you get the drugs from?”
“It seems that the perpetrators fed it.
At that time, Kim Jeong-tae, who was heading to the hospital, finally brought the main culprit.
Without hesitation, I moved downstairs to the restraining room.
