A Seoul high court has confirmed its previous suspended jail term for Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo but also ordered him to perform community service involving manual labour.
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In a retrial ordered by the Supreme Court, the court gave Hyundai Motor Chairman Chung Mong-koo a suspended five-year term for embezzlement and breach of trust.
But the court ordered 300 hours of community service for Chung instead of obliging him to give lectures or contribute business articles to newspapers as punishment.
In April, the Supreme Court ordered a retrial of Chung’s case, saying that part of an earlier ruling by a lower court for him was legally inappropriate.
In the appeals court ruling, Chung was also ordered to carry out his earlier promise to contribute 840 billion won ($827 million) to charities.
Chung, 69, was sentenced to three years in prison in February last year for breach of trust and embezzling 90 billion won ($87.4 million) in company funds through fraudulent accounting.
