By Yoon Won-sup
Staff Reporter
President Roh Moo-hyun has ordered the Cabinet to study measures to return a scholarship foundation to the original owner, which was forcibly taken by the late President Park Chung-hee and later headed by his daughter Park Geun-hye, the former chairwoman of the Grand National Party (GNP), Roh's aides said.
``The Truth and Reconciliation Commission recommended the Buil Scholarship Foundation (which later became the Jeongsu Scholarship Foundation) should be returned to the original owner,'' Roh was quoted as saying during a Cabinet meeting Tuesday by his spokesman Cheon Ho-sun. ``The government now should find legal ways to implement that recommendation.''
The commission, an independent fact-finding state agency to investigate human rights abuses from the 1910-1945 Japanese colonial rule to the present, concluded late last month that the now-defunct Korean Central Intelligence Agency pressed the Buil Foundation owned by a businessman to give control of it to the government in 1962 under the Park administration.