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Police in front of a portrait of the former South Korean president Park Geun-Hye exhibited by her supporters before the tribunal of the Central District of Seoul, in Seoul, on April 6, 2018. Jung Yeon-I / AFP Yoon Suk Yeol, the president South Korean, remains in detention after its indictment on January 26 for having “directed an insurrection”, a decision which probably seals its political future, while a dismissal procedure must be confirmed by the Constitutional Court in the coming months. If his decision to impose martial law on December 3, threw the country into a crisis that is both serious and incredible, he is far from being the first president or ex-president of the Republic of Korea in prison. Mr. Yoon knows something about it, since it is himself, as a prosecutor general, who had two of them condemned: Park Geun-Hye and Lee Myung-Bak. Ms. Park, daughter of leader Park Chung-Hee, who had led Korea with an iron fist between 1961 and 1979, was the first elected president president in 2013. She was dismissed in 2016 then charged and incarcerated for having received Important bribes from large conglomerates, including Samsung, and for abuse of power. Definitely sentenced in 2021 to twenty years in prison, she was pardoned by her successor Moon Jae-in. Before her, Lee Myung-Bak, conservative president from 2008 to 2013, was sentenced for facts similar to fifteen years in prison. He too has been pardoned by Moon Jae-in. You have 58.39% of this article to read. The rest is reserved for subscribers.
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Publish date : 2025-01-28 14:43:03
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