Ruling party members of the National Assembly’s Legislation and Judiciary Committee will file a police complaint against 18 senior prosecutors who protested the decision not to appeal a ruling in the Daejang-dong corruption case.

Committee members said in a news conference on Wednesday at the National Assembly that the prosecutors' coordinated action had undermined discipline within the prosecution, damaged constitutional order and violated the State Public Officials Act.

The lawmakers said the prosecutors’ statement was not legitimate dissent but "collective insubordination,” expressly prohibited among civil servants, and accused them of dragging the prosecutors' office into the center of politics.

They also argued that the prosecutors had bypassed legal procedures for filing formal objections, instead defying their chain of command.

The Democratic Party lawmakers warned that tolerating such actions would embolden collective resistance inside the prosecution whenever political winds shift, vowing strong countermeasures against future “political acts.”

A Rebuilding Korea Party lawmaker and an independent also signed on to the complaint. 

On November 10, 18 ranking prosecutors posted a message on the prosecution’s intranet demanding an explanation from then–acting Prosecutor General Noh Man-seok after the Daejang-dong case was dropped.