Supreme Court Confirms Guilty Verdict for Sookmyung Girls' High School Twins in 'Exam Paper Leak' Case

The Supreme Court upheld the guilty verdict against the twin sisters who took the Sookmyung Girls' High School internal exams after seeing the leaked answers provided by their father, the head of the academic affairs department.

On the 24th, the Supreme Court's 2nd Division (Presiding Justice Kim Sang-hwan) confirmed the original court ruling that sentenced the two twin daughters of Hyun, the former head of academic affairs at Sookmyung Girls' High School, to one year in prison with a three-year probation. The Supreme Court dismissed both the prosecutor's and defendants' appeals, stating, "There is no error affecting the judgment such as exceeding the limits of free evaluation of evidence or misinterpreting the law in the guilty verdict of the lower court."

The sisters were charged with obstructing the school's grading process by taking exams after seeing leaked answers their father had smuggled out, from the first semester final exam of their first year in 2017 through the first semester final exam the following year, totaling five occasions.

They consistently denied the charges, but the first trial court sentenced each twin to one year and six months in prison with a three-year probation and 240 hours of community service. In the second trial, the sentence was reduced to one year in prison with a three-year probation for each.

Meanwhile, their father Hyun, who was tried earlier than the two daughters, was found guilty of obstruction of business and had his three-year prison sentence finalized by the Supreme Court in March 2020.

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