"Drinking hit-and-run" Kim Ho-joong was sentenced to the first trial today.Third, submitting a letter of apology.

Kim Ho-joong was sentenced to the first trial half a year after the 'drunk hit-and-run' accident
Controversy continues over cases of 'drinking' obstructing alcohol measurement
National Assembly proposes 'Kim Ho-joong Prevention Act'...a maximum of five years in prison
Prosecutors seek three-and-a-half years in prison for "systematic obstruction of justice."

[Anchor]
Singer Kim Ho-joong, who is on trial for drunk hit-and-run, will be sentenced today (13th).

It has been confirmed that Kim recently submitted a third letter of apology ahead of his sentencing.

Reporter Kwon Junsu reports.

[Reporter]
The first trial will be sentenced to Kim Ho-joong, a trot singer suspected of causing a hit-and-run accident while driving while drinking.

It's been about half a year since the accident last May.

[Kim Ho-joong / Singer (last May): (How did you clarify your accusation?) I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. (Are you sure you asked your manager to destroy the evidence?) I'm sorry.]

Kim, who said in his final statement that he would not repeat the same mistake and said he would stay alert and live upright, recently submitted a third letter of apology to the court ahead of the sentence.

Kim is suspected of running away after bumping into a taxi in the opposite lane while driving under the influence.

Kim, who has since denied the crime by swapping his manager and driver, admitted to the crime only 10 days after the accident.

Kim was found to have drank several times at time intervals even after the accident, and because of this, he was put on trial without being charged with drunk driving because he could not measure the blood alcohol level at the time of the accident.

Since then, it has become a social controversy as a series of so-called 'drunkering' that escapes after an accident or interferes with alcohol measurement like Kim,
The so-called "Kim Ho-jung Prevention Act" has also been proposed, which prohibits drinking additional alcohol for the purpose of deceiving
drinking measurements, and punishes violations with up to five years in prison.

The prosecution demanded a three-and-a-half-year prison term for causing public resentment by systematic obstruction of justice, and attention is being paid to what judgment the court will make.

I'm YTN Kwon Junsu.

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