The National Assembly’s passage of a bill stripping prosecutors of their power to conduct supplementary investigations has shifted attention to the remaining steps before the overhaul takes effect, including presidential promulgation, follow-up legislation and possible proceedings before the Constitutional Court. Conservative opposition parties, mainly the People Power Party (PPP) and the minor Reform Party, have called on President Lee Jae Myung to exercise his veto. It remains unclear whether Lee will do so, though the bill is a key part of the ruling party’s prosecution reform agenda. Once the bill is sent to the government, Lee has 15 days to either promulgate it or return it to the Assembly for reconsideration. A bill also becomes law if the president neither promulgates it nor requests reconsideration by the deadline. The revised Criminal Procedure Act is scheduled to take effect Oct. 2, when the new prosecution office and the new serious crimes investigation agency are set to begin operations. What changes under revised law Under the revised law, prosecutors will no longer be a