South Korea's impeached President Yoon Suk Yeol spent his first night in jail as a criminal suspect Sunday, according to a prison officer. Yoon was arrested in a dawn raid last week after a weeks-long standoff and is facing insurrection charges over his short-lived martial law bid last ...
Former South Korean President Lee Myung-bak (front) arrives at the Seoul High Court in Seoul, South Korea, Feb. 19, 2020. A South Korean appellate court on Wednesday sentenced former President Lee Myung-bak to 17 years in jail over a set of corruptions, including bribery and embezzlement. ...
South Korea, Feb. 19, 2020. A South Korean appellate court on Wednesday sentenced former President Lee Myung-bak to 17 years in jail over a set of corruptions, including bribery and embezzlement. The Seoul High Court handed down the ruling on Lee, who served as the country's head...
South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung arrives at a court in Seoul, South Korea, November 15, 2024. A South Korean court handed the country's opposition leader a suspended prison sentence Friday for...
–Ex-presidents in jail – Politics is famously adversarial in South Korea, where two of the past three presidents have ended up in jail on corruption charges. Yoon defeated Lee by the smallest margin in South Korean political history to become president in 2022 and the divisions have ...
Being taken into custody is a dramatic step in the disgrace of South Korea's first woman president, and was a key demand of the millions of people who took to the streets to protest against her as the scandal engulfed her leadership last year. ...
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North Korea berates South Korea for jailing civic activists
South Korea’s constitution gives the president the power to use the military to keep order in “wartime, war-like situations or other comparable national emergency states.” Martial law powers can include suspending civil rights such as freedom of the press and assembly and temporarily...