Even worse, Cho’s daughter received those scholarships despite the fact that she flunked two semesters. Our society is asking why a rich kid received scholarships six times by abusing a clause set aside for students from low-income brackets who need financial aid to study but do not meet the minimum grade point requirements as they were busy earning their tuition through part-time jobs. Pusan National University’s medical school recently claimed there were “no procedural problems” with Cho’s daughter having received scholarships. What his supporters had not known until recently was that, in reality, Cho lived a life of prerogatives and irregularities. That kind of a manipulation infuriated the public because Cho built his career on inspiring messages for Korea’s underprivileged while criticizing rich people’s pursuit of perks of their class. His daughter targeted a niche market that ordinary citizens barely knew of. Korean society was shocked upon learning that his daughter did not go through a single written test to qualify for Hanyoung Foreign Language High School, Korea University or Pusan National University School of Medicine. The scandal surrounding Cho and his family is not just about whether they went against the law. Even if you suck him with a vacuum cleaner, you will not find a single particle.” Reality check: Cho’s reputation is now in tatters.Ĭho admitted he was a “clumsy and easygoing” father when it came to his daughter’s issues, yet that in itself is a lax attitude. “He will easily pass the confirmation hearing no matter what because he does not have a single dust particle on him. “As I have known him for a long time since our university days, we used to share our concerns with each other,” An said. Then came July 25, when he confidently declared during a radio show that justice minister nominee Cho Kuk was absolutely clean. When prosecutors reopened a probe into the scandal surrounding the late actress Jang Ja-yeon, he openly defended Yun Geo, a self-proclaimed witness in the case who’s now mired in a legal battle over accusations of fraud.
During the Choi Soon-sil scandal that brought down the Park Geun-hye administration, he claimed Park’s father, former President Park Chung Hee, had stashed away 300 trillion won ($247 billion) in a slush fund. An Min-suk of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) makes striking remarks.
It’s about hypocrisy Lee Chul-ho The author is a columnist at the JoongAng Ilbo.
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