South Korean president Park Geun-hye

SEOUL (AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE) - South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun Hye will not appeal her 24-year prison sentence for corruption, reports said on Monday (April 16). Park, 66, who was removed from office over a massive corruption scandal last year (2017), was convicted of ...

South Korea's disgraced former president Park Geun-hye will not appeal her 24-year prison sentence for corruption, reports said on Monday. Park, 66, who was removed from office over a massive corruption scandal last year, was convicted of multiple criminal charges including bribery and abuse of power ...

During the presidency of now-impeached leader Park Geun-hye, signing a document critical of her government was enough for anyone working in the arts to be blacklisted. The full details of that blacklist was made public for the first time today (April 10) by a civilian-government truth committee, South ...

North Korea on Saturday called disgraced former South Korean president Park Geun-hye a “traitor” responsible for “extra-large hideous corruption”, in its first reaction to the sentencing of Park to 24 years in prison on corruption charges. The insults carried by the North's official Korean Central News Agency ...

SEOUL, South Korea — Park Geun-hye, South Korea's impeached and ousted president, was sentenced on Friday to 24 years in prison on bribery and other charges in a case that exposed the entrenched, collusive ties between the government and huge conglomerates like Samsung. The conviction and ...

A South Korean court has sentenced disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison over corruption scandal. By The Associated Press. SEOUL, South Korea — Apr 6, 2018, 2:54 AM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. A South Korean court has sentenced disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye to 24 ...

South Korean judge finds former President Park Geun-hye guilty of abuse of power and coercion; sentencing still to come. By The Associated Press. SEOUL, South Korea — Apr 6, 2018, 1:53 AM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. South Korean judge finds former President Park Geun-hye guilty of abuse of power ...

A South Korean court has sentenced disgraced ex-President Park Geun-hye to 24 years in prison over corruption scandal. Originally published April 5, 2018 at 11:54 pm ...

Just over a year ago, Park Geun-hye became the first president to be formally removed from office by impeachment in South Korean history, following the uncovering of her involvement in an extensive influence-peddling and bribery scandal. Those around her who were involved in the scandal have faced ...

SEOUL – The corruption verdict and sentencing of South Korea's ousted ex-president Park Geun-hye will be televised live, a Seoul court said Tuesday, in a case that could see her jailed for up to 30 years. The 66-year-old daughter of a former dictator was impeached and arrested in March 2017 over a ...

From aging crooners to bubbly K-Pop starlets, some of South Korea's biggest pop stars flew to North Korea on Saturday for rare performances that highlight the sudden thaw in inter-Korean ties after years of tensions over the North's nuclear ambitions. The concerts in Pyongyang on Sunday and Tuesday ...

... posted a video on its Uriminzokkiri website of a horse-dancing PSY character that had a photo of conservative South Korean presidential candidate Park Geun-hye's face transposed on it. The lyrics had the character satirically defending Park's late father, staunch anti-communist dictator Park Chung-hee.

SEOUL • South Korea has summoned Tokyo's ambassador to protest against new educational guidelines requiring high school students to be taught that disputed islands belong to Japan. Seoul has controlled the islets in the Sea of Japan, also known as East Sea, since 1945, when Tokyo's brutal colonial ...

Tomorrow marks exactly one year since former President Park Geun-hye was arrested. It is crushing to witness the truth behind the “seven-hour mystery after the Sewol ferry tragedy” being revealed before such point of time. On the day of the Sewol ferry tragedy, Park had a meeting with her three presidential aids and Choi ...

[Newsmaker] Was Park Geun-hye asleep while Sewol ferry was sinking? By Claire ... Enraged responses are flowing from political and public circles after the prosecution concluded Wednesday that former President Park Geun-hye spent crucial time on the morning of the Sewol disaster in her bedroom.

Former President Park Geun-hye refused to be questioned by the prosecution on allegations that her presidential office lied about the time at which she was first informed of the deadly sinking of the Sewol ferry four years ago. The Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office said that a senior prosecutor visited ...

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff was impeached for budget malfeasance, South Korean President Park Geun-Hye was impeached for corruption in 2016 and is awaiting trial, and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was defeated in 2015 and found guilty of abusing power by the country's constitutional court.

Not only is Moon breaking an unwritten rule, he is embracing a central banker chosen by his rival and impeached predecessor, Park Geun-hye. After his reappointment was decided in early March, Lee alluded to the risk of global market upheaval in the near future. "I feel more responsibility than four years ...

Prosecutors last month sought a 30-year jail term for former President Park Geun-hye, Lee's successor, who was ousted last year amid an influence-peddling scandal and is standing trial on charges of bribery, abuse of power and coercion. "We must question (Lee) to reveal the truth", the prosecutor told ...

2016 -- Google's artificial intelligence (AI) program AlphaGo celebrated its third consecutive victory against South Korean Go player Lee Se-dol on Saturday, heralding another win for machine against mankind. 2017 -- Former President Park Geun-hye leaves the presidential office of Cheong Wa Dae, two ...

Brazil's Dilma Rousseff was impeached for budget malfeasance, South Korea's President Park Geun-Hye was impeached for corruption in 2016 and is awaiting trial, and Thai Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra was defeated in 2015 and found guilty of abusing power by the country's constitutional court.

On March 11, 2017, I was interviewed at home on the BBC's World News program about the impeachment of South Korean president Park Geun-hye. My two young children broke into my home office while I was live on air. My wife then careened into the office to pull them out. It was all captured live on ...

Two former media figures, known to have conservative leanings and were close to the former Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye administrations, have joined the major opposition Liberty Korea Party (LPK) for the by-election in June. The LKP said Friday the two would run against the "suppression of the ...

Addressing a joint news conference alongside then-president South Korean Park Geun-hye in April 2014, Obama said threats by North Korea will get it "nothing except further isolation" from the global community. Obama conceded that additional sanctions may have limited impact. "We are not going to find ...

South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candlelit protests that culminated in her impeachment last year, the defence ministry said Thursday. Activist group the Centre for Military Human Rights Korea (CMHRK), citing multiple ...

Ousted South Korean President Park Geun-hye arrives at the Seoul Central District Court for hearing on a prosecutors' request for her arrest for ... SEOUL: South Korea will investigate allegations that ousted president Park Geun-hye planned to send military troops to quash the candle-lit protests that ...

Prosecutors are asking for a 30-year-prison term and a $110-million fine for disgraced former President Park Geun-hye, who was driven out of office last year before being arrested and charged with bribery, coercion and abuse of power. A formal conviction and sentence are expected as soon as this month.

Thousands of South Korean conservatives rallied in Seoul on Thursday to protest President Moon Jae-in's Olympic outreach to North Korea, and in support of impeached President Park Geun-hye, who faces a possible 30-year prison sentence for corruption charges related to the scandal that ousted her ...

The prosecution demanded a 30-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye, Tuesday, at the latest hearing in a corruption trial stemming from an influence-peddling scandal that removed her from office. It also called for the court to fine her 118.5 billion won ($110 million). The Seoul Central ...

Prosecutors on Tuesday sought a 30-year jail term and a 118.5 billion won fine for former President Park Geun-hye in the court hearing at the Seoul Central District Court, saying that Park privatized presidential authority to peddle influence and sully constitutional values. The demand came in 317 days after she was indicted ...

Prosecutors demand 30-year prison term for former South Korean President Park Geun-hye in landmark corruption case. By The Associated Press. SEOUL, South Korea — Feb 27, 2018, 12:42 AM ET. 0 Shares. Email. Star. 0 Shares. Email. Prosecutors demand 30-year prison term for former South Korean President Park ...

The first trial verdict for Choi Soon-sil clearly named Park Geun-hye as an accomplice, suggesting a general picture of the former President's own upcoming first trial verdict. Not only do many of the charges against Choi and Park overlap, but with the same court also trying Park's case, the possibility of a ...

A South Korean court has sentenced Choi Soon-sil, a friend and adviser to former president Park Geun-hye, to 20 years in jail for corruption, influence-peddling and abuse of power. Choi was at the heart of a massive corruption scandal that led to the impeachment of Ms Park, the country's first female ...