Prosecutors indict Kang Yong-suk and Kim Se-ui over defamation of Cho Kuk's son, more than six years after complaint

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[The Financial News] Kang Yong-suk, a lawyer, and Kim Se-ui, the head of Garo Sero Research Institute, have been sent to trial on charges of spreading false information about Cho Kuk's son, who is the leader of the Rebuilding Korea Party. It has been about six years since they were first accused.
According to Yonhap News Agency on the 1st, the Criminal Division 1 of the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office, led by Shin Do-uk, indicted Kang and Kim without detention the previous day on charges of violating the Act on Promotion of Information and Communications Network Utilization and Information Protection, etc. (defamation).
It has been five years and seven months since Cho filed a complaint against them in September 2020, and two years and three months since police sent the case to prosecutors in December 2023.
In August 2019, Kang and others uploaded a video to the Garo Sero Research Institute YouTube channel that claimed Cho's son, Cho Won, had sexually harassed a female student, and that his mother, former Dongyang University professor Chung Kyung-sim, had instead portrayed him as a victim of bullying.
In response, Cho filed a police complaint a year later, saying they had spread clear falsehoods by labeling his son, who had suffered from school violence, as a "sexual harassment perpetrator."
Prosecutors are understood to have secured minutes from a meeting of the School Violence Countermeasures Committee regarding Cho Won and confirmed that he was a victim, not a perpetrator, of school violence.
y27k@fnnews.com Seo Yoon-kyung Reporter