PM nominee’s son has public health exam (Healio)
The son of Lee Wan-koo, the prime ministerial nominee, underwent a medical examination on his knee Thursday at a general hospital in Seoul to prove that his conscription exemption was legitimate and quash any draft-dodging accusations that could disqualify his father.
The MRI scan of his leg showed that the 34-year-old, a lawyer at a top law firm, had completely ruptured his anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), according to Lee Myung-chul, an orthopedics professor at Seoul National University Hospital in central Seoul.
“Based on the MRI scan, the cause of the rupture was from an injury that resulted from athletic activity,” he said. “In this case, a surgical operation was 100 percent necessary.”
Lee, who was nominated on Jan. 23, said earlier that his second son had received a grade three on a physical examination for conscription in August 2000. In the Korean military, those who receive grades one to three are subject to mandatory service.
However, in October 2004, while he was attending college in the United States, the younger Lee ruptured his ACL during a soccer match. He went back and forth between hospitals in Seoul and Michigan f...
