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South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president detained over martial law
Read full article: South Korean court rejects petition to release impeached president detained over martial lawLawyers for impeached South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol have failed in their court effort to secure his release.
Battle erupts over South Korean court that will determine the fate of impeached Yoon
Read full article: Battle erupts over South Korean court that will determine the fate of impeached YoonSouth Korea’s acting leader has vowed to convey to the world that things are back to normal following parliament’s impeachment of conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol.
South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election law
Read full article: South Korean opposition leader gets a suspended jail term for violating election lawA South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law.
South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter was sent abroad
Read full article: South Korean woman sues government and adoption agency after her kidnapped daughter was sent abroadA 70-year-old South Korean woman on Monday sued her government, an adoption agency, and an orphanage over the adoption of her daughter, who was sent to the United States in 1976, months after she was kidnapped at age four.
S. Korea to pardon former leader Lee for corruption crimes
Read full article: S. Korea to pardon former leader Lee for corruption crimesThe South Korean government of President Yoon Suk Yeol is granting a special pardon to ex-President Lee Myung-bak, who was sentenced to a 17-year prison term for a range of corruption crimes.
South Korea arrests former top officials over 2020 killing
Read full article: South Korea arrests former top officials over 2020 killingSouth Korea’s former defense minister and coast guard chief have been arrested over their alleged involvement in covering up facts and distorting the circumstances surrounding North Korea’s killing of a South Korean fisheries official in 2020 near the rivals’ tense sea border.
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Seoul court rejects slave labor claim against Japanese firms
Read full article: Seoul court rejects slave labor claim against Japanese firmsA South Korean court has rejected a claim by dozens of wartime factory workers and their relatives who sought compensation from Japanese companies for their slave labor before the end of World War II.
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S. Korean court upholds prison term for ex-president Park
Read full article: S. Korean court upholds prison term for ex-president ParkFILE - In this Oct. 10, 2017, file photo, former South Korean President Park Geun-hye, left, arrives to attend a hearing on the extension of her detention at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea. South Koreas top court upheld 20-year prison term for Park over corruption on Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021. But the finalizing of her prison term also makes her eligible for a special presidential pardon, a looming possibility as the country’s deeply split electorate approaches the next presidential election in March 2022. Park originally faced a prison term of more than 30 years before the Supreme Court sent her cases back to a lower court in 2019. Prosecutors appealed after the Seoul High Court handed Park a 20-year term in July last year after merging the two cases.
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South Korean chat room operator gets 40 years for blackmail
Read full article: South Korean chat room operator gets 40 years for blackmailSEOUL – The operator of online chat rooms in South Korea was sentenced Thursday to 40 years in prison on charges of blackmailing dozens of women, including minors, into filming sexually explicit videos and selling them to others. The Seoul Central District Court convicted Cho Ju-bin, 24, of violating laws on protecting minors and organizing a criminal ring, court spokesman Kim Yong Chan said. The court ruled Cho “used various methods to lure and blackmail a large number of victims into making sexually abusive contents and distributed them to many people for an extended period,” according to Kim. On Thursday, the Seoul court sentenced five of Cho’s accomplices, one of them a 16-year-old, up to 15 years in prison. President Moon Jae-in earlier called for a thorough investigation and stern punishment for those operating such chatrooms and their users.