SEOUL, Aug. 11 (Korea Bizwire) — The government will push to create a sentence of life imprisonment without parole to more sternly respond to heinous crimes, such as murder, the Ministry of Justice said Friday. The ministry said a revision of the Criminal Act, which contains the creation of the life sentence without parole, will [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 13 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung group’s de facto leader Lee Jae-yong was released on parole Friday, seven months after he was imprisoned over bribery. The vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co. offered a public apology, leaving the Seoul Detention Center in Uiwang, 25 kilometers south of Seoul, where his supporters, as well as [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — Samsung Group, the country’s largest conglomerate, is likely to ramp up its investment and merger and acquisition (M&A) with the parole of its leader despite controversy over the legitimacy, industry insiders said Monday. The parole board under the justice ministry approved Lee Jae-yong’s release from jail after hours of [...]
SEOUL, Aug. 9 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry said Monday it will release jailed Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong on parole later this week, a decision fiercely protested by civic groups and welcomed by Samsung Group and other business leaders. The vice chairman of Samsung Electronics Co. has been serving time since he was sentenced [...]
SEOUL, July 26 (Korea Bizwire) — More than 66 percent of South Koreans support the idea of granting parole to Lee Jae-yong, the jailed de facto leader of Samsung Group, a poll showed Monday. In a poll of 500 people aged 18 and older nationwide conducted by Realmeter on Friday, 66.6 percent of the respondents [...]
SEOUL, Jan. 31 (Korea Bizwire) — The justice ministry said Thursday that it has decided to strictly control parole for habitual drunk drivers, scammers and sex offenders in future. “We’ve decided to limit parole, in principle, for offenders who repeatedly commit (offences of) drunk driving, fraud, sexual abuse and family violence in a bid to [...]
SEOUL, Nov. 30 (Korea Bizwire) — Most conscientious objectors imprisoned for refusing military service were released on parole Friday, following the Supreme Court’s recent not-guilty verdict. The Ministry of Justice said that 58 inmates convicted for refusing to serve in the military, due to religious beliefs and reasons of conscience, were released from prisons and [...]