Independence of the judiciary from executive and legislative encroachment. Specifically captures court-packing, selective prosecution, judicial reshuffles.
Rule of law as institutional substrate — contract enforcement, judicial independence, equal treatment before the law. Upstream of most other axes.
Revival and extension of the Moon-era prosecution-service reform agenda: (i) further narrowing of prosecutors' direct-investigation jurisdiction beyond the already-reduced six categories; (ii) empowerment of the Corruption Investigation Office for High-Ranking Officials (CIO / Gongsucheo) with expanded case-handover authority; (iii) partial restoration of the prosecution-police realignment; (iv) a proposed standalone "Serious Crime Investigation Agency" separate from the Supreme Prosecutor's Office. Politically motivated in part by the martial-law aftermath and prosecutorial-service investigations of DP figures including Lee himself.
Per invariant 3, reforms are scored by what they did on each channel-separated axis, not by the party that enacted them. This fingerprint is how the policy-match engine finds historical analogues.
Explicit links are curated by the author. Inferred links are hypotheses in the library that test the same axes this policy moved — the framework's answer to "what does the data say about a policy like this?".
Ranked by axis-fingerprint overlap with this policy. Direction match bolded — those are the closest historical analogues. Shape of the match is what drives policy-outcome comparison, not the country or party label.
Mixed-direction coding on judicial_independence axis — first-class caveat given framework commitment to not smoothing over contested content. v1.1 should reassess once empirical indicators (WGI, V-Dem) update through the 2027 cycle.