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South Korea’s Supreme Court upholds sentence in Lee Jung-seob forgery case

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South Korea’s Supreme Court upholds sentence in Lee Jung-seob forgery case
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The court upheld Kim Yong-su’s two-year sentence, suspended for three years, in a case involving sales of works bearing forged Lee Jung-seob signatures and plans to exhibit purported works by Lee and Park Soo-keun. Image shows a forgery from the case, via Yonhap.

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