Two former executives acquitted in humidifier cleaner deaths case Posted : 2021-01-12 16:51 Updated : 2021-01-12 16:51 The former CEO of Aekyung Industrial Ahn Yong-chan enters the Seoul Central District Court in Seocho District on Tuesday for a trial on charge of manufacturing and selling a humidifier sterilizer that includes harmful chemicals in the early 2000s. Yonhap Hong Ji-ho, the former CEO of SK Chemical, leaves the Seoul Central District Court after being acquitted in a trial held Tuesday on charge of manufacturing and selling a humidifier sterilizer that includes harmful chemicals. YonhapA court on Tuesday acquitted the former heads of SK Chemical Co. and the consumer goods company Aekyung Industrial Co. in a deadly humidifier sterilizer case.