Former President of the Republic of Korea (ROK) Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 20 years in jail and fined 20 billion won over a corruption scandal that led to her impeachment in 2017, a ROK court ruled on Friday. Park, the first female president of the ROK, was broug...
SEOUL, April 6 (Xinhua) -- Impeached South Korean President Park Geun-hye was sentenced to 24 years in prison on Friday over a corruption scandal that exposed the deep-rooted collusive ties between politicians and businessmen viewed as being hard to root out. Park was sentenced to 24 years ...
SEOUL, March 31 (Xinhua) -- Former President Park Geun-hye of South Korea was arrested early Friday after a court approved the request from prosecutors, raising a possibility for her to serve jail term over corruption allegations. A judge in the Seoul Central District Court said in a statemen...
SOUTH Korea's ousted president Park Geun-Hye arrived at a detention center near Seoul early Friday after being arrested over the corruption and abuse of power scandal that brought her down. The Seoul Central District Court ordered Park's arrest on charges of bribery, abuse of authority, coercio...
During her father’s 18-year rule, Park Geun-hye served as first lady after her mother was killed in an assassination attempt targeting her father in 1974. She left the presidential mansion in 1979 after her father was gunned down by his own intelligence chief during a late-night drink...
Lawmakers quiz Park’s elusive pal in jail cell A HANDFUL of South Korean lawmakers yesterday finally got to question the woman at the heart of the impeachment crisis surrounding President Park Geun-hye, after she snubbed a televised hearing at her detention center....
South Korean prosecutors on Tuesday demanded a 30-year jail term for ousted President Park Geun-hye, who was taken into custody a year earlier after having been removed from office. Prosecutors asked a Seoul court to sentence Park to 30 years in prison and fine her 118.5 billion won (110.5...