'Employee Habitual Assault' Lee Myung-hee Receives Suspended Sentence in Appeal Trial

The late Chairman Cho Yang-ho of Hanjin Group's wife, former Ilwoo Foundation Chairwoman Lee Myung-hee [Image source=Yonhap News]

[Asia Economy Reporter Seongpil Cho] Lee Myung-hee, the wife of the late Cho Yang-ho, chairman of Hanjin Group, who was indicted for repeatedly assaulting employees, was sentenced to probation again in the appellate court.

The Criminal Division 13 of the Seoul High Court (Presiding Judges Koo Hoe-geun, Lee Jun-young, Choi Sung-bo) on the 19th sentenced Lee to 2 years in prison with a 3-year probation, the same as the original sentence, in the appeal trial on charges including habitual special injury.

Lee was prosecuted for verbally abusing or hitting nine employees working at her residence, including drivers, a total of 22 times from November 2011 to April 2018, causing injuries. She was also charged with throwing pruning shears at a security guard at her home in Pyeongchang-dong, Jongno-gu, Seoul, and kicking a driver who refused to load items onto a car on a road in Gugidong, causing injury.

In the first trial, most of the charges were recognized as guilty, and Lee was sentenced to 2 years in prison with a 3-year probation. Both the prosecution and Lee appealed the verdict, and the prosecution requested a 2 years and 6 months prison sentence for Lee at the appellate court's final hearing last month.

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