S.E.S - SHOO
At 11 am. on October 30th, the 9th Civil Affairs Department of Seoul High Court set a date for the appeals court’s arbitration on SHOO‘s loan return lawsuit. The call raises questions about whether SHOO will reach a direct deal.
Earlier in August last year, SHOO was charged with fraud worth 600 million won for gambling in a Seoul casino. A police investigation even revealed that SHOO was suspected of playing regularly abroad.
However, SHOO was not charged with gambling and fraud in Korea as she was a permanent resident abroad (in Japan) and had no problem entering a foreign-only casino.
Since then, SHOO has admitted facts of debt and allegations of usual overseas gambling worth 790 million won on 26 occasions. In the first trial held in February, SHOO was sentenced to six months in prison, with a two-year suspended sentence and 80 hours of community service on gambling charges.
In 2017, SHOO borrowed some 350 million won in gambling funds from an acquaintance, identified only by her last name Park, from a Las Vegas casino and failed to repay them, leading to the civil action from Park.
SHOO claimed that she had no obligation to reimburse this amount under the rule that she could not claim its return. However, the court ruled in the first trial that SHOO should be sentenced.
In response, SHOO appealed the outcome of the first trial. SHOO is expected to reach a second deal through this call. Attention is focused on whether SHOO will succeed in reaching an agreement.
Translator: Shawn
Source: Popnews
