Forgery Documents Obtained from Seoul National University Professor's Office Computer
Attribute Information Shows Cho Kuk's English Name
Former Minister of Justice Cho Kuk was caught in circumstances indicating that he personally wrote a false hotel internship resume for his daughter, Cho Min. The clue to the 'document forgery' was just one letter.
According to the legal community on the 1st, the prosecution secured the hotel internship resume from the computer in Cho's Seoul National University professor's office. It was confirmed that one letter in the hotel name written on this resume was incorrect, revealing it as a forged fake document.
The official name of the hotel is ‘Aquapellis,’ but the certificate found on Cho's computer was written as ‘Aquapellis’ with a different letter. According to the foreign transcription rules, the ‘pel’ used by Cho is the correct notation, but the hotel itself uses ‘Aquapellis’ as a proper noun.
The prosecution judged that Cho Kuk directly created the false document and forged it. The prosecution's assessment is that former Minister Cho created a document in the name of the CEO of Aquapellis Hotel on his Seoul National University professor's office computer, then had the corporate seal stamped through a hotel official, thereby falsely issuing the document.
The forged resume file still retained its attribute information. The attribute information contained Cho Kuk’s English name.
Although Cho Min never worked as an intern at the hotel during her high school years, the prosecution claims that she, in consultation with her parents, created false career documents to record them in her school records for university application purposes.
Earlier, in September 2020, Cho appeared as a witness in the trial of Jung Kyung-shim and refused to testify when asked by the prosecutor why the hotel certificate form file came from the Seoul National University research office computer, saying, “I will abide by Article 148 of the Criminal Procedure Act.”
Meanwhile, on the 10th, the prosecution indicted Cho Min on charges of false public document creation, obstruction of business, and obstruction of official duties by deception. Her mother, former Dongyang University professor Jung Kyung-shim, has already been sentenced to prison for related charges, and her father, former Minister Cho, is also on trial, with their daughter Cho Min now indicted as well.
Cho Min is accused of conspiring with her parents to pass the document screening for Seoul National University Medical School with false documents and ultimately being admitted to Pusan National University Medical School.
The prosecution appears to consider Cho Min not merely a passive beneficiary but an active conspirator.
In response, former Minister Cho wrote on social media, “I would rather be taken to Namsan or Namyeong-dong and tortured like in the old days.”
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