A disgraced former South Korean politician, Cho Kuk, was sentenced to two years in prison for forging documents to facilitate his children's school admissions in a scandal that has deepened political divides and frustrated many young voters
Cho, who has denied any wrongdoing, said he would appeal.
The court said Cho colluded with his wife, Chung Kyung-shim, also a university professor, in manipulating documents to get their son into a specialised high school and a law school, and daughter into a medical school. Chung has already received a four-year sentence over those charges and irregularities over family investment.
"He had repeatedly committed crimes of corruption in college admissions for his children for several years using his position as a university professor, so the motive and nature of the crimes are bad, and it seriously undercut social trust in the fairness of the college entrance system," the court said in the ruling.
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