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Mom of Korean Air chief ‘sentenced’

By AFP
July 15, 2020

SEOUL: A South Korean court on Tuesday found the mother of Korean Air’s chief executive guilty of repeatedly assaulting her employees, but gave her a suspended sentence. Lee Myung-hee is the matriarch of the Cho family, which controls the Hanjin transport and logistics conglomerate where her son Cho Won-tae succeeded her husband as chairman following his death last year.