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In April 2020, Democratic Party lawmakers again attacked Yoon and called on him to resign as the prosecution started investigations into election law violation cases involving both ruling and opposition politicians and also suspected election rigging of the Ulsan mayoral race for Mayor Song Cheol-ho in 2018 by senior secretaries at the Blue House.

Yoon started his career at Daegu Public Prosecutor’s Office in 1994. He headed the Special Branch and Central Investigation Department, both investigate corruption-related cases. In 1999, he arrested an Assistant Commissioner Park Hui-won who was involved in corruption despite of strong objections from bureaucrats of the Kim Dae-jung cabinet.

On 17 June 2019, Yoon was nominated as the Prosecutor General, replacing Moon Moo-il. His nomination was welcomed by the ruling Democratic Party and the Party for Democracy and Peace, but was also opposed by the Liberty Korea Party and the Bareunmirae Party. A minor centre-left Justice Party remained neutral. On 16 July, he was officially appointed as the new Prosecutor General and started his term 9 days later. President Moon ordered him to be neutral, adding that any kind of corruptions must be strictly investigated though it is related to the government.

On 19 May 2017, the newly-elected President Moon Jae-in appointed Yoon as the Chief of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office.The prosecution indicted two former presidents Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye, three former NIS chiefs, former chief justice Yang Sung-tae and more than 100 other former officials and business executives under his tenure. Yoon also led an investigation into accounting fraud at Samsung.

Yoon later became head of investigations in the team of special prosecutor Park Young-soo which investigated the allegations of the 2016 Choi Soon-sil scandal involving Choi, Samsung vice-chairman Lee Jae-yong and President Park Geun-hye which led to the impeachment of the president in December 2016.

In 2013, Yoon led a special investigation team that looked into the National Intelligence Service (NIS)'s involvement in the 2012 NIS public opinion manipulation scandal. Yoon sought the prosecution of the former head of the NIS, Won Sei-hoon for violating the Public Official Election Act. He accused Justice Minister Hwang Kyo-ahn of influencing his investigation. As a result, he was demoted from the Seoul prosecutors' office to the Daegu and Daejeon High Prosecutors' Office.

Yoon married to Kim Kun-hui, the President of Covana Contents. She is 12 years younger than him. Both were married in 2012.

In January 2002, Yoon shortly worked as a lawyer at Bae, Kim & Lee but quit as he felt he is not suitable to hold the position. He immediately returned as a prosecutor and arrested pro-Roh Moo-hyun figures i.e. Ahn Hee-jung and Kang Keum-won. In 2006, he apprehended Chung Mong-koo for his complicity in slush fund incident of Hyundai Motor Company. In 2008, he worked for the independent counsel team resolving BBK incident related to the President Lee Myung-bak.

Yoon passed the first bar when he was in Year 4 but failed the second. He kept failed for 9 years; the reason was unsure but widely regarded as the mock trial against Chun Doo-hwan. He finally passed the bar in 1991 along with Park Beom-kye, a Democratic MP.

Yoon was exempted from the national service due to anisometropia in 1982. Regarding the disease, he later added he could not to get a driving licence.

Yoon Suk-yeol (Korean: 윤석열, born 3 February 1961) is a South Korean lawyer, prosecutor and the current Prosecutor General of South Korea.

Yoon Suk-yeol was born in Yeonhui-dong, Seodaemun District, Seoul in 1961. Some suggested that he was from Honam, but it was reported as a rumour. His father, Yoon Ki-joong, is a retired educator from Daegu graduated from Yonsei University and Hitotsubashi University who later established the Korean Statistical Society and now as a full member of the National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Korea. His mother was born in Gangneung and a lecturer of Ewha Womans University who quitted after her marriage.