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Moon Hyung-bae
.mw-parser-output .nobold{font-weight:normal}문형배
Photo in his retirement ceremony, 2025
Acting18 October 2024 – 18 April 2025
Lee Jong-seok
Kim Hyungdu
In office19 April 2019 – 18 April 2025
Moon Jae-in
(1965-02-02) 2 February 1965
Seoul National University (LLB)
문형배
文炯培
Mun Hyeongbae
Mun Hyŏngbae

Moon Hyung-bae (Korean: 문형배; born 2 February 1965) is a South Korean judge. He was named a Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea in 2019. He was responsible for reading the verdict on the impeachment of Yoon Suk Yeol on 4 April 2025, which led to Yoon's removal as President of South Korea.

Moon is the eldest son of a farming family in a small village in Hadong County, South Gyeongsang, in 1965. He grew up in poverty and managed to finish his education after receiving a scholarship from Jinju-based traditional Korean medicine practitioner and philanthropist Kim Jang-ha. Moon graduated from Jinju Daea High School and earned his bachelor's degree in law from Seoul National University before passing the bar examinations in 1986.

  • 1987 Seoul National University College of Law

  • 1989 Admitted to Bar

  • 1992 Judge, Busan District Court

  • 2004 Judge, Changwon District Court

  • 2012 Presiding Judge, Busan High Court

  • 2016 Chief Judge, Busan Family Court

  • 2019–2025 Justice of the Constitutional Court of Korea

  • 2024–2025 Acting President of the Constitutional Court of Korea

  • Profile at the Constitutional Court of Korea

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