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president of a university foundation in Seoul was accused of leaking the names and phone numbers of hundreds of students to the outside when the general election was set up four years ago.
It was a list of all students living in the same ward, but related investigations are underway.
Reporter Jo Yoon-ha reports exclusively.
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is Seoil University in Jungnang-gu, Seoul.
The school's faculty member A says that in March 2016, ahead of the general election in her 20s, she received an absurd order from the chairman of the board.
[Mr. A: (Chairman) This is a matter that you and I must carry to the grave.
I think we need to cooperate a little with the ○○○ lawmaker.]
He said he was instructed to deliver the personal information of the enrolled students to the camp for candidates running for the general election.
The USB file, which Mr. A said to have delivered, contained the names and phone numbers of more than 400 students living in the ward.
Chairman Lee denied the allegations, but the police secured personal information files such as those mentioned by Mr. A in the school seizure search and sent Mr. Lee to the prosecution for violating the Personal Information Protection Act.
Schools who handed over personal information were punished, but candidates who were suspicious of handing over data were not punished.
The camp officials who were alleged to have received the data denied the charges, and there were no CCTV or call records to prove the situation at the time, so the charges could not be confirmed.
In addition, the police also handed over the charge to the prosecution by adding a charge that the school foundation sold a portion of the sale proceeds to the corporate account account, not the school expenses account, after selling corporate land containing educational papers.
While the chairman and the school denied all charges, the Ministry of Education also accused the chairman Lee of the prosecution.
(Video coverage: Jongsoo Hong, Choi Woong Choi, video editing: Jiin Park, CG: Hyunjung Jung)