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Park Geun-hye is the daughter of South Korea's former dictator, the late president Park Chung-hee. On December 19, 2012, Park - a Conservative - narrowly won the election to make history as South Korea's first female president. Born on February 2, 1952, she was the chairwoman of the conservative Grand National Party (GNP) between 2004 and 2006 and between 2011 and 2012 (the GNP changed its name to Saenuri Party in February 2012). Park has already served as South Korea's first lady, after her mother was killed in the 1970s.
After all the recent hoopla about Abenomics in Japan and China's reform under Xi Jinping, South Korea's Park Geun-hye becomes the latest to join the Asian reform club.
- The judge pointed out inadequacies in the case, including inadmissible evidence and lack of proof of Lee’s intentions or that Samsung and Lee misled shareholders
- Prosecutors had sought a five-year jail term for Lee Jae-yong
An assailant who repeatedly struck a South Korean lawmaker with a rock as she tried to resist was a 14-year-old boy who was sent to a mental health facility on Friday,
The attack on Bae Hyun-jin comes about a month after the country’s opposition party leader was stabbed in the neck while talking to reporters in the city of Busan.
South Korea’s new president Yoon Suk-yeol has opened the Blue House to the public as part of his pledge to abandon the presidential palace and establish his offices at a Defence Ministry compound.
Yoon Suk-yeol, opposition candidate, criticises An Chi-hwan’s track for ‘crossing certain lines’; some say song is about Yoon’s wife Kim Keon-hee but singer says it’s about mastermind behind disgraced former President Park Geun-hye.
South Korean film student Oh Se-yeon talks to the Post about her documentary Fanatic, a film festival hit that examines what happens to fans when they see their K-pop idols accused of crimes.
Heo Kyung-young’s claims to be able to levitate and work miracles have left him open to ridicule, but his more down-to-earth targeting of corrupt politicians have some calling him a saviour of the working class.
The ruling means Park, who was ousted from office and arrested in 2017, potentially serves a combined 22 years behind bars
The neighbours’ differences over wartime labour compensation are deep, and they are unlikely to fundamentally resolve the issue, observers say.
Many Chinese millennials are obsessed by Korean boy and girl bands but K-pop has been turned into a political hot potato by Beijing.
Lee Kun-hee transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics.
Prosecutors said Lee committed breach of trust and other offences when two Samsung units merged in 2015, which gave him greater control of the group.
The all-male group – including professors, schoolteachers and two Buddhist monks – gathered on Friday after Lee invoked a rarely used option to review legal cases.
It’s not just the coronavirus and the Shincheonji Church. Cults have been linked to a host of Korean scandals, from the Sewol ferry disaster to a president’s impeachment.
The Supreme Court ordered the retrial of Lee, who was convicted for bribery in a case that helped bring down former president Park Geun-hye. The decision comes as Samsung faces headwinds caused by global trade disputes.
Samsung Group heir Lee Jae-yong faces a return to jail if the Supreme Court rules against him in a high-profile corruption case, potentially dealing a further blow to the group which is already suffering as a result of export curbs by Japan and the US-China trade war.
The marches that involved an estimated 2 million people have inspired a range of views from the region’s citizens and direct action veterans. Some see hope in Hongkongers’ audacity, while others go from condemnation to ambivalence.
The 2016 marches against then president Park Geun-hye sparked attempts to paint protesters as North Korean supporters. Hongkongers opposed to the extradition bill must resist attempts to divide them, whatever their political differences.
More than 20,000 Koreans sign a petition urging action from President Moon Jae-in as many remember their own history of protest.
The predictions, delivered to the disgraced former president by police, covered a range of topics from diplomacy and national security to the economy and the president’s personal luck.
The family-run conglomerates that power South Korea’s economy have long been above listening to individual shareholders – or ants. But as the scandals mount, and take down presidents, those ants are fighting back.
The Seoul High Court finds that Park colluded with a friend, Choi Soon-sil, to receive tens of billions of won from major conglomerates to help Choi’s family and fund non-profit foundations owned by her.
Disgraced former president now sentenced to total of 32 years for corruption and pocketing kickbacks.
Sohn Suk-hee, whose investigative reporting led to the impeachment and prosecution of former president Park Geun-hye, urges Hong Kong democracy activists to persevere.
With his predecessor Park Geun-hye the latest to be jailed, Moon Jae-in faces a challenging political system where constitutional reform may prove difficult
