An Army colonel was sentenced to a two-year jail term Tuesday for receiving bribes in exchange for helping former and active-duty officers find employment, the Ministry of National Defense said.
  

The colonel, surnamed Song, was convicted of accepting kickbacks from some seven active-duty service personnel or reservists who asked him for job placement at defense companies over the past three years, according to the ministry in a release.
  

Song was arrested in January on charges of taking an unidentified amount of money from a warrant officer the previous year who sought his help to land a job at a large defense firm. The colonel had been in charge of evaluating weapons at the Army Headquarters made by the company.
  

Along with the jail term, the court also levied a 20 million won ($17,885) fine on Song and ordered him to pay an additional 13.48 million won.
  

"We will sternly punish those caught for job-related corruption regardless of their rankings and positions based upon the zero-tolerance policy," the ministry said. (Yonhap)