Won Sei-hoon (born January 31, 1951) is a former South Korean public servant. Born in
Yeongju
Yeongju (; ) is a city in North Gyeongsang Province, South Korea. It has an area of 668.84 km2 and a population of 113,930 people according to the 2008 census. The city borders Bonghwa county to the east, Danyang County of North Chungcheong Pr ...
, he obtained a Masters in Urban Administration from
Hanyang University
Hanyang University (HYU, ) is a Private university, private research university in Seoul and Ansan (ERICA campus), South Korea. ''Hanyang'' () derives from the Names of Seoul, former name of the capital Seoul used during the Joseon period. The u ...
. In 2009, he was appointed the 10th Director of the National Intelligence Service. He was indicted in June 2013 for attempted interference in the
2012 South Korean presidential election
Presidential elections were held in South Korea on 19 December 2012. They were the sixth presidential elections since democratization and the establishment of the Sixth Republic of South Korea, Sixth Republic, and were held under a First Past t ...
by allegedly ordering an online misinformation campaign against opposition candidates. On January 22, 2014, he was found guilty for
graft
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*Graft (politics), a form of political corruption
*Graft, Netherlands, a village in the municipality of Graft-De Rijp
Science and technology
*Graft (surgery), a surgical procedure
*Grafting, the joining of plant ti ...
. He got a 2-year jail term and a fine of some 160 million
won. In 2015, the
Supreme Court
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returned to a lower court this ruling. On August 30, 2017, he was sentenced to four years in prison by the Seoul High Court.
References
External links
원세훈 Daum
1951 births
Living people
People from Yeongju
Presidency of Lee Myung-bak
Directors of the National Intelligence Service (South Korea)
South Korean politicians convicted of crimes
Sei-hoon
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