SEOUL, Aug. 18 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, who was released from prison under a presidential pardon last week, said Monday he will apply to rejoin a minor opposition party, signaling that he would run for next year’s local elections. The pardon by President Lee Jae Myung restored Cho’s eligibility to run [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — Former minor party leader Cho Kuk will be granted a special pardon on the occasion of Liberation Day, the justice ministry said Monday, cutting short his two-year prison term over charges in connection with his daughter. Cho will be granted an exemption of his sentence under the presidential amnesty [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 16 (Korea Bizwire) — Former minor party leader Cho Kuk on Monday called for an all-out effort for regime change before being imprisoned at the Seoul Detention Center to begin his two-year prison sentence. Cho, who led the minor opposition Rebuilding Korea Party, has lost his parliamentary seat after the Supreme Court upheld [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 10 (Korea Bizwire) — The prosecution on Thursday indicted the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk on charges of university admission fraud. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors Office charged Cho Min with document forgery and obstruction of business for allegedly collaborating with her mother to submit falsified documents, including an admission form, [...]
SEOUL, Feb. 3 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk was sentenced to two years in prison Friday for using his influence to receive academic favors, including university admissions, for his children. The Seoul Central District Court also found Cho guilty of interfering with an inspection into a corruption case by using his power [...]
SEOUL, April 7 (Korea Bizwire) — Korea University said Thursday it has decided to nullify the 2010 admission of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s daughter after finding falsehoods in her high school records submitted for admission. The announcement came two days after Pusan National University in the southeastern city of Busan voided the 2015 admission [...]
BUSAN, April 5 (Korea Bizwire) — Pusan National University (PNU) on Tuesday made a final decision to nullify the 2015 admission of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s daughter into its medical school for using forged documents on the application. The school in the southeastern port city of Busan had tentatively decided in August last year [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court finalized a four-year prison term Thursday for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk for college admission fraud involving their daughter and other charges, bringing an end to one of South Korea’s most divisive scandals in recent years. Chung Kyung-sim, a former professor of Dongyang [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — An appellate court on Wednesday upheld a four-year prison sentence for the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk over academic fraud. The Seoul High Court found Chung Kyung-sim, a professor of Dongyang University, guilty of all charges related to the unfair college admission of her daughter and upheld [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 23 (Korea Bizwire) — Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk’s wife was sentenced by a Seoul court on Wednesday to imprisonment of four years for academic fraud and financial misconduct. The Seoul Central District Court handed down the jail sentence, together with a fine of 500 million won (US$451,000) and a forfeit of 140 [...]