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Today, the reason why the prosecution is pegged as an object of reformation is that the prosecution fails to clear off its past history that it neglected its duty and that it was appropriated for other purposes. In the process of preparing the statute criminal procedure law, to remedy the malformed prosecution power, especially a misuse and an abuse of the authority to prosecute, a system of application for a ruling was created. However, neglecting the system and leaving it not to function well through a revision of criminal procedure law for the worse, the prosecution has brought the system to its knees. Moreover, the appeal system that the prosecution is for itself internally preparing as a control scheme also has had obvious limits, and the checks by constitutional trials also have not surpassed the symbolic meanings because of various restrictions. However, after getting out of authoritarianism, our society, on the road to democracy, achieved people’s participation in criminal trials, and, even though nobody can easily prejudge how situations of future discussions will evolve, it is obvious that people’s control over the prosecution’s authority to prosecute is in anyway inevitable. Therefore, if, ruminating on the true implied meaning of people’s participation, the prosecution want to re-start as a trustworthy government institution, it should run concurrently the existing system of ex post control as well as the system of ex ante control in which people directly participate.