Father of golf legend Pak Se-ri receives suspended sentence over document forgery

The father of the Korean golf legend Pak Se-ri received a suspended jail term Wednesday for an illegal attempt to borrow the name of his daughter's foundation to build an international golf school. The Daejeon District Court in the central city of Daejeon handed down a 10-month sentence, suspended for two years, on Pak Joon-chul, on a number of charges, including forging a private document. The senior Pak was convicted of forging a document and a company seal to set up an international golf school under the name of the Seri Pak Hope Foundation, and of acting as the chairman of the foundation while pursuing the project between June 2021 and July 2023, when Pak Se-ri was the person in charge of the foundation as its director. The daughter took her father's case to police in September 2023, and police referred it to the prosecution for possible indictment early in 2024. The father claimed that he was trying to work on behalf of his daughter and he had received tacit approval from the foundation to go ahead with the school project. However, the court ruled that the senior Pak still had no legWeiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times Weiter zum vollständigen Artikel bei Korea Times