Gerhard Schröder sentenced in South Korea: Schröder

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Soyeon Schröder-Kim and husband Gerhard Schröder find the verdict from South Korea problematic

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Gerhard Schröder is said to have destroyed his wife's now divorced marriage and therefore has to pay compensation, a family court in South Korea ruled.

Soyeon Schröder-Kim has now sharply criticized the judgment - but wants to accept it.

“Although my husband and I are of the legal opinion that this judgment could not be enforced in Germany, I have decided to respect what I believe to be problematic judgment in my home country and to take responsibility for it alone, also out of consideration for mine Daughter, «Soyeon Schröder-Kim wrote on Instagram.

Schröder-Kim has been married to former Federal Chancellor Schröder since 2018.

"I made a free choice to dissolve my previous marriage," she wrote in her post.

Her ex-husband agreed to the divorce.

"I assumed that even a family court in Seoul would only respect my sovereign decision with no ifs or buts."

Formally, the ruling might just about correspond to the legal situation in South Korea, but from their point of view it has nothing to do with a modern society, said Schröder-Kim.

She hoped that South Korea would reform divorce law.

Addressing her ex-husband's address, she wrote: “Dr.

I wish Jun, who is remarried by the way, all the best in his new life. "

Schröder has to pay 22,100 euros

A family court in the South Korean city of Seoul had ruled that Schröder had to pay his wife's ex-husband compensation of 30 million won, which is the equivalent of around 22,100 euros.

The plaintiff had accused the former Federal Chancellor of being responsible for the failure of his marriage: Schröder had started an affair with Kim when she was still married to him.

Extramarital affairs were a criminal offense in conservative South Korea until 2015, and infidelities could be punished with imprisonment.

They are still the cause of civil claims today.

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