Police are investigating allegations of preferential remedy within the hiring of Yoo Dam, 31, the daughter of former lawmaker Yoo Seung-min, as a professor at Incheon Nationwide College.
The Yeonsu Police Station in Incheon mentioned Tuesday that it had acquired a criticism accusing college President Lee In-jae, members of the personnel workplace, hiring committee and information administration workforce of violating the Public Information Administration Act.
The criticism claims that the college did not correctly protect recruitment paperwork associated to Yoo’s hiring, which ought to have been completely archived beneath institutional pointers.
The complainant additionally referred to as for a probe to find out whether or not all utility information for college positions have been destroyed.
Yoo was appointed as a full-time professor within the Division of Worldwide Commerce throughout the School of International Economics and Politics for the second semester of the 2025 tutorial yr.
Throughout a parliamentary audit on Oct. 28, Rep. Jin Solar-mi of the Democratic Social gathering of Korea questioned Yoo’s appointment, saying there had been “many objections to the hiring of 31-year-old professor Yoo at Incheon Nationwide College.”
She mentioned Yoo “ranked close to the underside within the qualitative analysis of her analysis papers, round sixteenth place with 18.6 factors,” however “acquired good scores in training, profession and quantitative assessments, which pushed her to second general within the first spherical.”
Jin added that Yoo “was given high marks in profession analysis regardless of missing study-abroad or company expertise, whereas different candidates acquired a lot decrease scores.”
Incheon Nationwide College has denied any wrongdoing, saying the overview course of was performed “pretty and in accordance with inside rules and pointers.”
This text from the Hankook Ilbo, the sister publication of The Korea Instances, is translated by generative AI and edited by The Korea Instances.
