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Court Ruling on Korean Tycoon Sparks Media Criticism
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Mar 25, 2014, By KWANWOO JUN
South Korean media are abuzz over a four-year-old court ruling that allows a convicted tycoon to pay off a $23 million fine with just a month-and-a-half of prison labor, questioning the fairness of a decision that values his daily work behind bars 10,000 times higher than that of a regular convict.
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The controversy erupted again when Huh Jae-ho, 71, the former chairman of now-defunct Daeju Group, returned home over the weekend to be taken to a prison labor facility after four years of living overseas to avoid paying the fine for tax evasion and embezzlement.
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Handing down a suspended jail term against Mr. Huh, a local court in 2010 ordered him to pay the 25.4 billion won ($23 million) fine or do prison labor for 50 days–which valued his daily labor at 500 million won, compared with the usual 50,000 won a day for ordinary convicts.
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Mr. Huh fled abroad shortly after the 2010 ruling without paying the fine.
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The case, which had been almost forgotten in South Korea, returned to the media spotlight when Mr. Huh ended his four-year exile in New Zealand to return home to do the prison labor on Saturday. Mr. Huh and his lawyers weren’t immediately available to comment.
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Almost all South Korean media have weighed in with criticism of the ruling. JoongAng Ilbo, one of South Korea’s leading newspapers, said Monday the ruling “drew wide public ridicule” over Mr. Huh’s “emperor’s labor” in prison. Denouncing the country’s judicial system for being flawed for a second straight day on Tuesday, JoongAng ran a front-page story pointing out that the ruling was handed down by a “hometown judge” with close regional and academic connections to the high-profile convict. Mr. Huh came from the same southwestern city of Gwangju as the court judge who gave the ruling, JoongAng said. The country’s top cable news network, YTN, said the ruling was based on “abnormal” grounds by applying hugely different rules on the value of prison labor.
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The English-language Korea Times newspaper said: “Hun’s case is not the first of this kind…Lawyers say that Huh’s case is a classic example of the judiciary being generous to tycoons who violate the law.“
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Seoul’s Yonhap news agency said the supreme court, in response to the public uproar, was considering working out “reasonable guidelines” for determining the value of prison labor in the country.
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In South Korea, court judges can fix the value of prison labor case by case.
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