SEOUL, Feb. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk Yeol said Tuesday more than 450,000 people will be granted special pardons on the occasion of the Lunar New Year, including five businesspeople and seven politicians. Yoon did not name the beneficiaries, saying only that the list was drawn up with a focus on reviving the [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 12 (Korea Bizwire) — President Yoon Suk-yeol granted his first special pardons to Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong, Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong-bin and 1,691 others on the occasion of next week’s Liberation Day anniversary, the government said Friday. The government announced the pardons to be effective from Liberation Day on Monday. Former President [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 6 (Korea Bizwire) — South Koreans were almost evenly divided on the idea of granting pardons to two former presidents currently in prison for corruption charges, a hotly debated topic recently brought up by the ruling party chief, a survey showed Wednesday. In a one-day survey by Realmeter conducted on 500 voters nationwide [...]