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 SEOUL, South Korea (AP) - The chairman of the Hanwha Group Chairman, one of South Korea's richest people, was sentenced to 18 months in prison Monday for a sensational beating attack earlier this year against bar workers who had scuffled with his son.
Prosecutors had sought a two-year prison term for Kim Seung-youn for ordering his bodyguards to attack the off-duty bar workers who had taken part in the fight with his 22-year-old son.
Victims said that Kim's bodyguards confronted them after the scuffle in March and forcibly took them to a construction site near the capital, where the tycoon attacked them with his feet, fists, a steel pipe and a stun gun, though none of the victims were seriously hurt.
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