Tycoon Scions on Probation for Drug Use
By Kwon Mee-yoo
Staff Reporter
Three young men, including a grandson of a chaebol family, were found guilty of smoking marijuana, Friday.
The Seoul Central District Court sentenced each to a 10-month prison term suspended for two years.
Jung, 19, is the grandson of a former honorary president of one of Korea's major companies. Choi, 20, and Park, 20, are the sons of former and present high-level executives of another big company.
Jung allegedly bought three grams of marijuana for 300,000 won near Itaewon in March and smoked it three times in an apartment in Dogok-dong and an alley in Itaewon with his two friends.
Park is also under the suspicion of smoking hashish in his friend's house in Hong Kong in July, 2007.
The court said ``They were given suspended sentences as they were first-time offenders.''