South Korea's impeached PresidentYoon Suk Yeolhad his mug shot taken and underwent a physical check before spending his first night in jail as a criminal suspect, a prison officer said on Monday. Yoon was arrested in a dawn raid last week, becoming the first sitting South Korean head of ...
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — The operator of an online chat room in South Korea was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison for blackmailing women, including minors, into filming sexually explicit video and selling them to others.
Yoon faces criminal charges of insurrection, one of a few crimes not subject to presidential immunity, meaning he could be sentenced to prison or, at worst, the death penalty. If the warrant is executed, Yoon would become the first sitting South Korean president to be arrested...
, Kim Yong-sam became president and had both Chun and Roh stand trial as part of a reform drive. The two ex-presidents were convicted of mutiny and treason over the coup and the Gwangju crackdown, as well as corruption. Chun was sentenced to death and Roh to 22 1/2 years in prison...
And if President Yoon is in fact sent to prison after he’s impeached, he will not be the first recent South Korean president to end up in jail. I mean, I suppose that is an indication of how abnormally high the stakes are in South Korean politics is that so many presidents seem to...
While South Korean presidents have wide-ranging immunity from prosecution while in office, the protection does not extend to allegations of rebellion or treason. Yoon’s martial law decree has rattled South Korea’s diplomatic activities and financial markets and hurt its international image as a vib...
If, as in “The President’s Barber”, we can imagine the formative period of South Korea’s history as arising only after the Korean War, then the 1960s would represent the country’s adolescence, when the younger generations would mould, and be moulded into, the shape of the country’...
Almost all former presidents, or their family members and key associates, have been mired in scandals near the end of their terms or after they left office. The current opposition leader, Lee Jae-myung, a firebrand liberal who narrowly lost the 2022 election to Yoon, has also been dogged ...