Seoul, June 9 (CNA) The South Korean Supreme Court on Thursday upheld an eight-year prison sentence against a man who was accused of causing the death of a Taiwanese student in a drunk driving accident in 2020.
Taipei, March 29 (CNA) The father of a Taiwanese woman who was killed by a drunk driver in Seoul in 2020 thanked a South Korean court for adhering to justice, after the court on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison sentence handed down to the Korean driver.
EIGHT-YEAR SENTENCE: The family of the student, killed by a drunk driver in South Korea, feared that a retrial of the case might lead to a more lenient term/ Staff writer, with CNA
The father of a Taiwanese woman who was killed by a drunk driver in Seoul in 2020 thanked a South Korean court for adhering to justice after the court on Tuesday upheld an eight-year prison sentence handed down to the driver, a man surnamed Kim.
The father, Tseng Kin-fui (曾慶暉), said in a pre-recorded video that although he was dissatisfied with the ruling, the driver’s eight-year prison term is the longest sentence so far for drunk driving- caused deaths in South Korea.
The parents of the victim choked back tears when talking about their daughter’s death.
The father said that losing his
The South Korean Supreme Court on Thursday remanded a case involving the death of Taiwanese student Elaine Tseng (曾以琳) to a lower appellate court, saying that the heavy sentence contravened the South Korean constitution.
Tseng, 28, was on her way home from a professor’s residence in Seoul on Nov. 6, 2020, when she was run over and killed by a 52-year-old surnamed Kim, who ran a red light at a pedestrian crossing.
It was Kim’s third driving under the influence (DUI) offense, after two incidents in 2012 and 2017.
A lower court in April last year sentenced Kim to eight years in prison,