The Latest Breaking News from Park Geunhye

Samsung pardon exposes Koreans’ love-hate feelings for tycoons

Lee Jae-yong is the latest in a long list of South Korean business elites to receive clemency after white-collar crimes.

Al Jazeera · Aug 12, 2022

South Korea to pardon Samsung's Lee, other corporate giants

South Korea will pardon Samsung heir Lee Jae-yong with a year left on his sentence for bribing a president in a corruption scandal that toppled her government

The Independent UK · Aug 12, 2022

S. Korean prosecutors grant ex-president temporary release

South Korean prosecutors granted former President Lee Myung-bak a temporary release from prison over health concerns Tuesday after he served less than three years of a 17-year sentence handed down for corruption

The Independent UK · Jun 28, 2022

South Korea's disgraced ex-president Park returns home after prison

Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye left hospital on Thursday three months after she was released from prison where she spent nearly five years following a conviction on corruption charges.

Reuters · Mar 24, 2022

Pardoned ex-President Park heads home from S. Korea hospital

Former President Park Geun-hye is going home three months after being pardoned for one of South Korea’s worst government-corruption scandals

The Independent UK · Mar 24, 2022