Aspiring to become naval officer

Chey Min-jeong, right, second daughter of SK Chairman Chey Tae-won, stands with Roh So-young, left, her mother and daughter of ex-President Roh Tae-woo, and Roh Jae-hun, her uncle, after attending a ceremony for the initiation of an 11-week training course at the Officer Candidate School (OCS) in the Korea Naval Academy, Changwon, South Gyeongsang Province, Monday. She is the first among the daughters of any family running conglomerates, known as chaebol, to apply to become a military officer. Chey, 23, a Peking University graduate, passed a physical checkup and interview in July. If she completes the course, she will be commissioned as an ensign, on Dec. 1, for a three-year term of service. / Yonhap