SEOUL/DAEGU, March 24 (Korea Bizwire) — Former President Park Geun-hye said Thursday she will contribute “whatever little strength I have” to the country’s development as she arrived in her hometown for the first time since her imprisonment about five years ago. Park, who was pardoned in December after spending four years and nine months in [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 31 (Korea Bizwire) – Former President Park Geun-hye was set free Friday under a presidential pardon, after four years and nine months of imprisonment following her impeachment and ouster from office for corruption. The 69-year-old Park has served a combined 22-year prison sentence since March 2017 after being impeached and removed from office [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 27 (Korea Bizwire) — Civic groups vented outrage Monday over the recent special pardon for ex-President Park Geun-hye imprisoned on corruption charges, arguing that the decision is a blow to the country’s democracy. Activists representing 1,001 civic groups, including the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions (KCTU) and the People’s Solidarity for Participatory Democracy, [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 25 (Korea Bizwire) — A special pardon of former President Park Geun-hye stoked contrasting responses from political parties on Friday, as they began to gauge its impact on the upcoming presidential election. The government decided to grant a special New Year’s pardon to Park, currently serving a 22-year prison term for corruption, for [...]
SEOUL, Dec. 24 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s government on Friday announced a special pardon for Park Geun-hye, the former president currently serving a 22-year prison term for corruption, saying that pardoning Park would help bolster national unity. Park has been serving a combined 22-year prison sentence since March 2017 after being impeached and removed [...]
SEOUL, July 25 (Korea Bizwire) — Rumors that former President Park Geun-hye and Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong may receive presidential pardons or paroles are increasingly making the rounds in political circles as of late amid growing calls for amnesty for the two figures jailed over corruption-related charges. Such speculations are being circulated widely with [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 14 (Korea Bizwire) — The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year sentence for former President Park Geun-hye in a high-profile corruption case, closing the yearslong saga that gripped the country and ultimately removed her from office in 2017. In the sentencing hearing over an appeal filed by prosecutors against a ruling in [...]
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 [...]
SEOUL, June 11 (Korea Bizwire) – The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a previous court decision on a longtime friend of jailed former President Park Geun-hye in an influence-peddling and corruption case. The highest court confirmed the previous ruling by the Seoul High Court in February that sentenced Choi Seo-won to 18 years in prison [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 29 (Korea Bizwire) — South Korea’s top court on Thursday ordered a lower court to reconsider its suspended jail sentence for Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong in a massive bribery scandal that led to the ouster of former President Park Geun-hye. The de facto leader of the country’s top conglomerate was initially sentenced to [...]