'Black and White Chef' Lee Young-sook, Korean food college, controversy over 100 million debt investments"Partial repayment"
Oct 29, 2024
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On the 28th, a media outlet reported that Lee Young-sook, CEO of Nagyung Mushroom Farm, borrowed 100 million won from Cho in April 2010, but has not paid it back so far.
CEO Lee borrowed 100 million won from Cho, the head of a shiitake mushroom-related association, to open a local restaurant and wrote an IOU with April 2011 due date. However, CEO Lee did not pay it back and Cho died in July 2011.
The bereaved families, who belatedly discovered the IOU, filed a lawsuit against CEO Lee. The court ruled in 2012 to pay back 100 million won, but CEO Lee did not pay back, saying he had no money. Eventually, the bereaved families seized the land owned by CEO Lee and received 19 million won through an auction.
Afterwards, CEO Lee won the title in the 2014 'Korean Food Battle 2' and received 100 million won in prize money, but did not repay the remaining debt. Cho's bereaved family applied for a bond seizure and collection order to the court in 2018, which the court accepted but still did not receive the remaining money.
In this regard, representative Lee said "There are differences in positions with each other. I borrowed some money, but I paid it back" reported his position.
Lee also appeared on Netflix 'Black and White Cooks: The War of the Culinary Class' released in September.
Reporter Baek Ji-eun silk781220@sportschosun.com
silk781220@sportschosun.com
