Kim Dong-seon, the 27-year old son of Hanwha Group chairman Kim Seung-youn, was arrested “after what police said was a drunken rampage in a bar in Seoul's upscale Gangnam district,”
the
Wall Street Journal
reported.
Hanwha is one of South Korea's biggest family-controlled conglomerates, known as chaebols. It has holdings in insurance, chemicals, construction, retail and sports, the
Journal
report said.
The article said that while Kim Dong-seon was being taken to the police station in handcuffs he “ripped a car seat and kicked and broke a car-door frame.”
The arrest “was widely reported in South Korea media,” the
Journal
report noted.
In December, South Korean Preisdent Park Geun-hye was impeached “amid an influence-peddling scandal that involved conglomerates,” the article said. “The misbehavior of the scions of these companies … [has] only added to misgivings over their perceived arrogance and fed sentiment that South Korea's economy is rigged in favor of the elite.” (Source:
Wall Street Journal
, Jan. 10, 2017.)
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