[Asia Economy Intern Reporter Kim Sung-yeol] Broadcaster Seo Se-won (63), who halted his entertainment activities due to assault controversy, is moving to Cambodia to establish a broadcasting station.
According to a report by Sports Kyunghyang on the 16th, Seo Se-won has been involved in urban construction projects in Cambodia for the past five years, and upon the proposal of the generous Minister of Culture and Tourism, he agreed to establish Cambodia Sports TV (CSTV).
CSTV's shares are divided with 70% owned by Korean companies and 30% by the Cambodian government, and it will have exclusive broadcasting rights for the 2023 SEA Games (Southeast Asian Games).
Seo Se-won plans to begin construction of the broadcasting station building next month. The construction period is expected to be within one year, and currently, broadcasting transmission preparations are underway at a temporary building of the National Olympic Committee of Cambodia (NOCC).
The British VITALA Group has pledged to invest 500 million dollars related to the establishment of the broadcasting station. Of this, 30 million dollars will be invested soon.
Additionally, Seo Se-won reportedly signed a contract to build Asia's tallest 100-story residence on a 10,000-pyeong site next to the main gate of the Olympic Main Stadium currently under construction in Cambodia.
It has also been confirmed that about 1,000 units of athlete village and foreign resident villas will be supplied on the 150,000-pyeong site of the Olympic athlete village.
Seo Se-won is known to have prepared for this contract by traveling back and forth between Korea and Cambodia several times over the past two years. As the establishment of the broadcasting station became concrete, he moved to the local area with his wife and daughter in mid-December last year.
Meanwhile, Seo Se-won was sentenced to six months in prison with a two-year probation in May 2015 for assaulting his then-wife Seo Jeong-hee. Later that August, he divorced Seo Jeong-hee by mutual agreement and stopped his broadcasting activities.
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