Finally, justice is served. Judgment day is here. After the federal court entered terminating sanctions of the action in favor of HS2 Academy on December 27, 2019, the court follow up on April 6, 2020 by granting judgement against defendants (Neal Ivan Lee, Steve Seung Moke Park, and Young Scholars Institute LLC), jointly and severally, in the amount of damages and attorney’s fees and costs. The total amount awarded is $5,577,846.00 that needs to be paid by Lee, Park and YSI. The cherry on top is that the court also awarded post-judgement interest to HS2, the legal rate of ten percent (10%) per annum of the amount until paid in full. This is what you get when you steal and commit an unlawful act. As can be seen below, the court ordered anyone associated with Lee, Park, and YSI from continuing this unethical activities or risk the wrath of the court. Now that we have netted the big fish in these illegal activities by a gang of unscrupulous people, we are thinking of going after the smaller fish. Watch out!
To learn more about what Lee, Park and YSI did to deserve such a severe judgment from the court, please go here, http://www.mulcahyllp.com/firmnews/pressmedia/mulcahyllpobtainsterminatingsanctionsintradesecretsandunfaircompetitioncase.html
Instead of cheering on the conclusion of this lawsuit, I would rather focus on the moral standards of being a good person. This issue is even more consequential when you are an educator. As someone who works with children daily, what you say and do have a significant influence on your students. Would you send your child to learn from a thief? How would that impact your child in the future when he/she needed moral judgment in life? Would they say, hey my teacher did it so can I? Teachers and others who work with children should be held to a higher moral standard for the reason that they provide the conscience of what is right and wrong. When you don’t have it, you don’t deserve to be an educator.
We are all taught from young to repay kindness with kindness. Once I provided tremendous kindness to someone in desperate need. I went out of my way because I felt if I didn’t, that person would lose his future and livelihood. Not only did he not appreciate it, instead he stole from me and asked everyone I knew to join him in his malevolent scheme. It's quite pitiful when someone can stoop so low to perpetrate such an immoral act because of greed. The same can be said to those accomplices who knew and continued to assist him in his unlawful endeavor. They are as bad if not worse than the perpetrator. When you repay someone’s kindness with an evil and malicious act, you lose credibility in the eye of God.
Be safe and healthy,
Sam Young