section_path: Release and concerns
section_name: Release and concerns
paragraph_text: Release and concerns
  
  Yoon was released from the Seoul Detention Center on 8 March after the prosecutor-general chose not to appeal court orders canceling his detention. The Democratic Party subsequently chided the prosecution as "one of Yoon's henchmen." The party then requested the resignation of Prosecutor General Shim Woo-jung for waiving the right to appeal the district court's decision to a higher court, calling the decision an "unacceptable display of leniency." However, the request was later rejected. On the 12th, the Chief Justice of Supreme Court of Korea, Chun Dae-yeop, announced his opinion that the release of Yoon Seok-yeol from detention was a special case, considering the more than 1,000 detention cancellation lawsuits filed every year. He recommended that the confusion in the "court precedents" regarding the issues in this case be resolved and that it be evaluated by a higher court.