Park Government's 'Culture and Arts Blacklist' Kim Ki-chun Sentenced to 2 Years in Prison in Retrial
Former Cheong Political Secretary Cho Yoon-sun Sentenced to 1 Year and 2 Months in Prison
Former Chief Presidential Secretary Kim Ki-chun and former Senior Secretary for Political Affairs Cho Yoon-sun, who were indicted in the ‘cultural blacklist’ case during the Park Geun-hye administration, were sentenced to prison in the retrial.
The Seoul High Court Criminal Division 6-1 (Presiding Judges Won Jong-chan, Park Won-cheol, Lee Ui-young) on the 24th sentenced former Chief Kim to 2 years in prison and former Senior Secretary Cho to 1 year and 2 months in prison on charges including abuse of authority and obstruction of the exercise of rights. However, the court did not order their immediate detention considering former Chief Kim’s advanced age.
Former Chief Kim and former Senior Secretary Cho were tried on charges of ordering the creation of documents listing names of groups and artists critical of the government along with reasons for excluding them from support, and excluding them from government funding based on those documents.
In the first trial, former Chief Kim was found guilty only of exclusion from support and was sentenced to 3 years in prison, but in the second trial, an additional charge of forcing a first-grade public official to resign was recognized, increasing the sentence to 4 years.
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Former Senior Secretary Cho was found guilty only of perjury in the first trial and was sentenced to 1 year in prison with a 2-year probation, but in the second trial, part of the abuse of authority charges was recognized as guilty, and she was sentenced to 2 years in prison. However, in January 2020, the Supreme Court overturned the case and sent it back to the Seoul High Court, citing misinterpretation of the law regarding abuse of authority and insufficient examination.
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