Han In-seop was right … the court “is not the Jo-min woman in the seminar video”

In connection with the suspicion of a bogus internship of Cho Min, the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kook, at the Seoul National University Center for Human Rights Law of Public Interest, Professor Chung Kyung-shim of Dongyang University posted 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 Cho Min woman in the video from the 2009 Seoul National University Center for Public Interest Human Rights Law? This was one of the issues that became controversial in the first trial trial of Professor Chung Gyeong-shim (58), a professor at Dongyang University, who was sentenced to four years in prison on the 23rd. This is due to that the prosecution and Professor Chung’s side have discussed whether or not Professor Chung’s daughter Jo attended the Seoul National University seminar held on May 15, 2009. When the trial continued, Professor Jeong also revealed her frustration in asking, “Should I choose if the mother is a daughter looking at her daughter?”

Professor Kyung-Shim Chung from Dongyang University attends the first trial sentence held at the Seoul District Court in Seocho-gu, Seoul on the 23rd. Reporter Woo Sang-jo

The Criminal Division 25-2 of the Seoul Central District Court (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 her same during the prosecution’s investigation. Professor Jeong said he did not know who the woman in the video and the man sitting next to him were until trial number 21, but he changed the argument at trial number 22. In the video, the woman claimed to be Jomin, and the man Sitting next to her was the mother-in-law of Cho’s maternal partner in high school.

The testimonies of the people around them were mixed. Jang, who was designated as a man alongside Jo, stated in a court statement that “Jomin did not attend the seminar and the woman in the video has a different face than Jomin.” He also said, “If Jomin had come, he would have sat with me.”

Another person in the video, Park, confronts Jo in the video. Mr. Park said in the prosecution investigation and in court: “I have not seen Jomin at the seminary.”

On the other hand, Mr. Kim, who was serving as the center’s general secretary 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 in glasses with long hair that stretched to his chest on the day of the seminar, so I think the woman in the video is Jomin.”

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 from the Chinese presentation during the seminar.” When looking at the video, there was a scene where a real Chinese teacher was arguing in Chinese. It was a statement that strengthened the credibility of the testimony that “I am not Jomin.”

On the contrary, Kim’s statement that she saw Mr. Cho at the seminar had something hard to believe. The judge said: “I have not seen Mr. Jo for 10 years until he was investigated by the prosecution once after seeing Mr. Jo’s face in 2009, but it is hard to believe Mr. Kim’s statement that he recognizes the Mr. Jo just looking at his side in the video. ” Furthermore, in May 2009, when Mr. Kim said that he had seen Mr. Jo at a seminar, it was revealed through his graduation photo that Mr. Jo had short hair, not long 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 room,” but the woman in the video was sitting in the middle of the seminar room. The judge concluded: “The statement made by Mr. Cho in the indictment and Professor Chung’s claim that the woman in the video is Mr. Jo do not agree.”

In-seop Han Director of the Institute for Criminal Policy. [뉴시스]

Professor Chung’s first court decision also includes a statement from the prosecutor’s office, director of the Criminal Policy Research Institute, Han In-seop (at the time, director of the Center for Human Rights in the Public Interest of the National University Seoul).

In a prosecution investigation in September last year, Principal Han stated to the effect that “I remember seeing high school students in the seminar room at that time, but I don’t recall 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 in the seminary “. Furthermore, given the fact that the director would have been able to recall that fact if he had met Jomin before the seminar was held or if it had been introduced by former Minister Cho, he judged that he could trust the statement of the prosecution.

Principal Han was subpoenaed as a witness at Professor Jeong’s trial in May and July. In May, he issued a letter with the reasons why he did not appear, and in July he was present, but exercised his right to refuse to testify, saying: “I am the suspect.” As a result, Professor Jeong canceled the request to testify on the day of the newspaper and President Han withdrew from the court without any testimony in about 40 minutes.

Reporter Lee Sujeong [email protected]