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Cho Kuk, chief of the Korea Innovation Party, speaks at the National Assembly in Yeouido, western Seoul, on Tuesday. [YONHAP]

Ex-justice minister vows to summon president, strike back if elected

The chief of a minor party that could upend the general election vowed to summon President Yoon Suk Yeol before the National Assembly to respond to allegations that prosecutors under his watch illegally stored criminal suspects' information.

2024.3.26

Cho Min, daughter of former Justice Minister and leader of Korea Innovation Party Cho Kuk, leaves Seoul Central District Court after a trial on Friday. [YONHAP]

Cho Min, Cho Kuk's daughter, fined 10 million won for academic fraud

Cho Min, daughter of former Justice Minister and leader of Korea Innovation Party Cho Kuk, was found guilty in her first court trial on charges of academic fraud on Friday.

2024.3.22

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Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk attends a hearing at the Seoul High Court in Seocho District, southern Seoul, on Dec. 18, 2023. [YONHAP]

Former justice minister wins damages for illegal snooping

Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk on Wednesday won 10 million won ($7,570) in damages in a civil lawsuit he brought against the state for illegal surveillance conducted against him under two previous conservative administrations.

2024.1.10

Chung Kyung-sim walks into the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho-dong, Seoul, to attend her trial on Dec. 23 2020. [YONHAP]

Wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk granted early release from prison

Chung Kyung-sim, the wife of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, will be released early from prison, where she has been incarcerated since December 2020 after being convicted of involvement in admission fraud.

2023.9.20

Cho Min, right, with her father Cho Kuk, former Justice Minsiter during the Moon Jae-in government, speaks at an event in Busan in April. [YONHAP]

Daughter of ex-justice minister indicted on med school admission fraud

Cho Min, the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, has been indicted for allegedly falsifying her medical school admission, including forging a volunteer certificate. Cho's mother, Chung Kyung-sim, has been in prison since 2020.

2023.8.10

Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk on Monday arrives at the High Court in Seocho-dong, Seoul, to attend his first appeal against an earlier ruling. Earlier this year he was sentenced to two years related to false documents and certificates that were used in his children getting admitted to college, medical school and graduate school. [YONHAP]

Ex-Justice Minister Cho Kuk says he respects his children's decision

“As a parent it hurts,” Cho said Monday at the Seoul High Court, where he attended the first hearing to appeal his conviction for pulling strings for his children’s admissions to college and later on to medical school and graduate school.

2023.7.17

Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, left, posted a photo on Facebook of himself dining with former President Moon Jae-in in Yangsan, South Gyeongsang on Saturday. [SCREEN CAPTURE]

SNU sacks former justice minister after conviction

Seoul National University (SNU) stripped former Justice Minister Cho Kuk of his professorship on Tuesday, four months after he was convicted of business obstruction, bribery and abuse of power tied to his children's academic admissions.

2023.6.13

Cho Min, daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk [SONG BONG-GEUN]

Court rejects former justice minister's daughter's lawsuit

A court Thursday rejected a lawsuit filed by the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk, siding with a university in Busan that nullified her entrance to its medical school over academic fraud.

2023.4.6

Former Justice Minister Cho Kuk's daugher Cho Min enters a hearing in Busan on March 16. [YONHAP]

Court upholds decision to cancel med school admission of Cho Kuk's daughter

A court dismissed the suit filed by the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk on the cancellation of her admission to a graduate medical school. Cho Min's litigation against Pusan National University's (PNU) decision to revoke her admission...

2023.4.6

PNU cancels Cho Kuk's daughter's admission

Pusan National University (PNU) announced Wednesday that it rescinded the admission of the daughter of former Justice Minister Cho Kuk because her academic credentials were faked.

2022.4.6