An Infamous Thief Wants to Become a Clergyman

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An Infamous Thief Wants to Become a Clergyman

An infamous thief Sehyeong Cho, who finished his prison sentence of 15 years in November of last year, wants to become a clergyman.
He is now counselling prison inmates in the hopes that they will become more productive members of society. He entered an education course for clergymen part of a postgraduate program for theology at Kangnam University on March 15.
He is now attending classes from 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. every Monday with 8 other classmates.
He said, ' I applied for the postgraduate course in order to accomplish my dream of emancipating the criminals from the recurrent commitment of crimes by way of counselling.'
Hyeong Ki Kim : myriad@joongang.co.kr
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