After 15 Years, a Father and Daughter Are Cleared in Korea’s High-profile ‘Cyanide Makgeolli’ Case

GWANGJU, Oct. 29 (Korea Bizwire) —  A South Korean appeals court has acquitted a father and daughter who spent roughly 15 years behind bars for a notorious 2009 poisoning, concluding that the convictions rested on coerced, legally flawed confessions. The ruling lands in October 2025, under a new political landscape that has made criminal-justice safeguards [...]