"Drinking hit-and-run" Kim Ho-joong was sentenced to 2 years and 6 months in prison... "irresponsible escape."

[Anchor]
Singer Kim Ho-joong, who is accused of a drunk hit-and-run, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in the first trial.

The court criticized Kim for his poor and irresponsible nature.

I'll connect you to a reporter for more information.

Reporter Kwon Jun-su, please tell us the details of the sentence.

[Reporter]
Trot singer Kim Ho-joong, who caused a hit-and-run accident while driving while drinking, was sentenced to two and a half years in prison in the first trial.

The court not only escaped irresponsibly even though Kim caused a drunk driving accident,
I believe that the false surrender of the
agency and manager caused confusion in the initial investigation and that the police investigation was considerably wasted.

He pointed out that it is questionable whether he felt any guilt for his mistakes as an adult over Kim's crimes.

He also criticized that the situation after the crime was bad, making excuses that were hard to understand even though he was stumbling due to the influence of alcohol by CCTV, which is objective evidence.

[Anchor]
When Kim caused the accident half a year ago, you denied the crime at first, right?

[Reporter]
Kim, who denied driving under the influence, admitted to the crime 10 days after the accident.

It turns out that he drank several times at time intervals after the accident,
Because of
, the prosecution excluded the charge of drunk driving because it was difficult to prove it because it was impossible to measure the blood alcohol level at the time of driving.

In addition, the head of the agency and the head of the headquarters, who were put on trial with Kim for ordering the manager to give false information to cover up the accident, were also sentenced to two years in prison and one and a half years in prison, respectively.

The manager was sentenced to one year in prison and two years of probation.

Kim, who said in his final statement that he would stay awake and live upright, recently submitted a third letter of apology to the court ahead of the sentence.

Kim, who kept his head down throughout the sentence, left the courtroom with his hands down and his mouth closed,

I didn't look at the cushion once.

In the court, fans lined up to enter the court to hear Kim's first trial sentence in person from early in the morning.

When asked by reporters about the appeal plan, Kim's lawyer only replied that he had nothing to say.

So far, I'm YTN Kwon Junsu at the Seoul Central District Court.