In connection with the suspicion of a false internship by Cho Min, the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kook, at Seoul National University’s Public Interest Human Rights Law Center, Professor Chung Kyung-shim of Dongyang University released a video containing the details of Cho’s activities last year. Professor Jeong’s side claimed that the girl in the red circle was Jomin who attended the seminar at the time. The prosecution is in a position that this is not true. [연합뉴스]
– Was the woman Cho Min in the video of the 2009 Seoul National University Public Interest Human Rights Law Center? It was one of the issues that became a controversy in the trial of the first trial by Professor Chung Gyeong-sim (58), a professor at Dongyang University, who was sentenced to four years in prison on the 23rd. This is because the prosecution and professor Chung’s side have been arguing over whether or not Professor Chung’s daughter Jo attended the Seoul National University seminar held on May 15, 2009. When the trial proceeded, Professor Jeong also revealed frustration by asking, “Should I choose whether the mother is a daughter by looking at her daughter?”
“The woman in the video is not Jomin” Conclusion
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Professor Kyung-Shim Chung from Dongyang University is attending the first trial sentence held at the Seoul District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 23rd. Reporter Woo Sang-jo
– The Seoul Central District Court Criminal Division 25-2 (Judge Lim Jeong-yeop, Kwon Seong-su, and Kim Sun-hee) concluded that the woman in this video was not Jo Min. Cho had stated that this woman was herself during the prosecution investigation. Professor Jeong said that he did not know who the woman in the video and the man sitting next to were until the 21st trial, but changed the argument in the 22nd trial. In the video, the woman claimed to be Jomin, and the man sitting next to him was the mother-in-law of Cho’s maternal high school classmate.
The testimonies of the people around them were mixed. Jang, who was designated as a man next to Jo, stated in a court statement that “Jomin did not attend the seminar, and the woman in the video has a different face from Jomin.” He also said, “If Jomin had come, he would have sat with me.”
Another person in the video, Park, faces Jo in the video. Mr. Park said in the prosecution’s investigation and court, “I haven’t seen Jomin at the seminar.”
On the other hand, Mr. Kim, who served as the secretary general of the center at the time of the seminar, stated that “the woman is Jomin” about the woman in the video. In the courtroom, he testified, “I saw Jomin wearing glasses with long hair that extends down to his chest on the day of the seminar, so I think the woman in the video is Jomin.”
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Cho Kook, former Minister of Justice. Newsis
– How did the judges judge the credibility of the mixed statements? First, I looked at the statement of Mr. Jang, a friend of Mr. Cho. Jang said, “I remember the scene of the Chinese presentation during the seminar.” Looking at the video, there was a scene where an actual Chinese professor was discussing in Chinese. It was a statement that gave strength to the credibility of the testimony that “I am not Jomin.”
On the contrary, Kim’s statement that he saw Mr. Cho at the seminar had something difficult to believe. The judge said, “I haven’t seen Mr. Jo for 10 years until he was investigated by the prosecution once after seeing Jo’s face in 2009, but it’s hard to believe Kim’s statement that he recognizes Mr. Jo by looking at the profile in the video.” Also, in May 2009, when Mr. Kim said he saw Mr. Jo at a seminar, it was revealed through his graduation photo that Mr. Jo was not long hair but short hair.
The statement made by Mr. Jo himself became the basis that the woman in the video was not him. In the prosecution’s investigation, Mr. Cho stated that he was “sitting in the back row of the seminar hall,” but the woman in the video was sitting halfway through the seminar hall. The judge concluded, “The statement made by Mr. Cho at the prosecution and Professor Chung’s claim that the woman in the video is Mr. Jo do not agree with each other.”
The grounds for the statement of President Han In-seop, who is familiar with the country
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![In-seop Han Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy. [뉴시스]](https://i0.wp.com/pds.joins.com/news/component/htmlphoto_mmdata/202012/24/93e69508-9887-4a60-b714-63c6d24e5afd.jpg?w=900&ssl=1)
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In-seop Han Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy. [뉴시스]
– Professor Chung’s first trial decision also includes a statement by the prosecutor’s office, head of the Institute for Criminal Policy Research, Han In-seop (at the time, head of the Seoul National University Public Interest Human Rights Law Center).
In a prosecution investigation in September last year, Director Han stated to the effect that “I remember seeing high school students in the seminar hall at the time, but I do not remember meeting Jomin or being introduced by Chomin from my country.” Wonjang Han is a professor at the same university as Chung’s husband, former Justice Minister Cho Kook. Judging from the relationship between President Han and former Minister Cho, the judiciary decided that there was no reason for the president to make a false statement against Professor Chung and former Minister Cho, saying, “I have never seen Jomin at the seminar.” In addition, in the light of the fact that it would have been possible for the director to remember that fact if he had met Jomin before the seminar was held or if he had been introduced by former Minister Cho, he judged that he could trust the prosecution’s statement.
Director Han was summoned as a witness at the trial of Professor Jeong in May and July. In May, he issued a letter of reasons for non-show, and in July he was present, but he exercised his right to refuse to testify, saying, “I am the suspect.” As a result, Professor Jeong canceled the application for witnessing on the day of the newspaper, and Director Han resigned from the court without any testimony in about 40 minutes.
Reporter Lee Sujeong [email protected]
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