Cho Hee-yeon, superintendent of Seoul Metropolitan Office of Education, who was handed over to trial on charges of unfairly hiring a dismissed teacher, was sentenced in the first trial to a suspended prison sentence, which is the penalty of losing the position of superintendent.
Seoul Central District Court Criminal Agreement Part 25-2 (Dr. Park Jeong-je and Presiding Judge Park Jeong-gil) today (27th) sentenced superintendent Cho to 1 year and 6 months in prison and 2 years of probation for being charged with abuse of power, obstruction of exercising rights, and violation of the State Public Officials Act. I did.
If the ruling is upheld, Superintendent Cho will lose his position as superintendent.
According to the Education Autonomy Act and the Public Official Election Act, if you are sentenced to imprisonment or heavier punishment and the sentence does not expire, you are eligible for retirement.
From October to December 2018, Superintendent Cho was charged with special hiring of five teachers, including teachers who were dismissed from the National Teachers and Education Workers' Union, in an unfair way.
Superintendent Cho ordered the person in charge to proceed with special recruitment while holding a tentative decision to hire five people.
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