The former chief executive of Kangwon Land, the only casino operator in South Korea that allowed gambling to locals, has been sentenced to three years in prison for unfair hiring of employees, Yonhap reported.
Choi Heung-jip, who is known to have led a state-run company from mid-2011 to early 2014, was found guilty of recruiting influential figures to work at Kangwon Land Casino Resort (file photo) at the request of politicians before other job candidates.
The news agency said the ruling was handed down Tuesday by the Chuncheon District Court in Gangwon Province. Choi was remanded in custody following the court ruling.
According to The Korea Times in December 2017, only 518 of the 5,200 people who applied to the company between 2012 and 2013 were successful, and at least some of the latter group owed their luck because they had relationships with powerful people.
And from 2012 to 2013, 23 rejected people reportedly filed a damage suit against Kangwon Land, which claims that the company used it to make the hiring process fair when it failed to do so.
In September 2017, The Korea Times reported that claims related to events that began six years ago at Kangwon Land’s operating company were related to events that took place in 2015. Kangwon Land Real Estate is located on a remote highland 150 km (93 miles) from the capital, Seoul.
In July, the public broadcaster KBS World Radio reported that prosecutors had indicted two lawmakers from South Korea’s main opposition Liberty Korea Party in connection with Kangwon Land’s hiring scandal.
In mid-March, South Korea’s President Moon Jae In, formerly the Democratic Party’s parliamentary leader, ordered the firing of 226 Kangwon Land employees who were judged to have obtained jobs by wrongful means after an investigation, Yonhap reported at the time, citing Cheong Wa Dae.
BY: 릴게임