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Samsung Electronics Chairman Lee Jae-yong was acquitted of financial crimes by a Seoul court on Monday. Photo: AP

In South Korea, Samsung boss acquitted in succession suit related to 2015 merger

The ruling could ease the legal troubles surrounding the Samsung heir, less than two years after he was pardoned of a separate conviction of bribery in a corruption scandal that helped topple a previous South Korean government.

5 Feb 2024 - 11:12PM

South Korean police send 14-year-old boy who attacked MP to mental facility

26 Jan 2024 - 7:19PMvideocam

South Korean ruling party MP hospitalised after attack, ‘15-year-old’ arrested

25 Jan 2024 - 8:48PMvideocam

Bye-bye Blue House: South Koreans peek inside for first time in 74 years

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.

19 May 2022 - 3:55PM

People visit the Blue House in Seoul on Tuesday after South Korea’s former presidential palace was opened to the public for the first time in 74 years. Photo: AP

South Korea singer denies song satirises presidential hopeful Yoon’s wife

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.

15 Feb 2022 - 5:59PMvideocam

Ex-fans grapple with loving stars-turned-criminals in documentary Fanatic

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.

17 Oct 2021 - 9:03AMvideocam

‘Levitating’ mystic in South Korea’s presidential race offers voters US$85k

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.

7 Oct 2021 - 10:32PM

Heo Kyung-young claims the ability to levitate. Photo: Handout

South Korean court upholds 20-year jail term for ex-president Park

The ruling means Park, who was ousted from office and arrested in 2017, potentially serves a combined 22 years behind bars

14 Jan 2021 - 9:51PMvideocam

Japan-South Korea deadlock to remain, despite Biden’s push for mend in ties

The neighbours’ differences over wartime labour compensation are deep, and they are unlikely to fundamentally resolve the issue, observers say.

28 Dec 2020 - 10:11AMvideocam

What happens when K-pop meets the Communist Party?

Many Chinese millennials are obsessed by Korean boy and girl bands but K-pop has been turned into a political hot potato by Beijing.

22 Nov 2020 - 11:08AMvideocam

K-pop power is prevalent in China but the industry is at the mercy of China-South Korea relations. Here, a man walks past a poster showing K-pop group BTS members at a shopping district in Seoul on October 15, 2020, around the time Chinese netizens became enraged by singer RM’s comments about the Korean war. Photo: AFP

Lee Kun-hee, force behind Samsung empire, dead at 78

Lee Kun-hee transformed the small television maker into a global giant of consumer electronics.

25 Oct 2020 - 9:30PMvideocam

Lee Kun-hee in 2009. He was left bedridden by a heart attack in 2014. File photo: EPA

Samsung heir charged with stock manipulation over 2015 merger deal

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.

1 Sep 2020 - 3:51PM

How Samsung heir used an unusual option to undercut corruption case

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.

2 Jul 2020 - 9:57AM

Korean cults: missing link in Covid-19, Sewol ferry, Park’s downfall

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.

1 Mar 2020 - 2:26PMvideocam

Relatives of victims of the sinking of the South Korean ferry Sewol sit at Jindo harbour as divers search for bodies. Photo: AFP

How South Korea’s growing protest movement resembles Brexit

The resounding success of the Tories in Britain has its echoes in Seoul, where hundreds of thousands rebel against Moon. The two situations have differences, but in both the middle and working classes have grown weary of out-of-touch leftists.

18 Dec 2019 - 11:46PMvideocam

South Korean policemen block protesters during an anti-government rally in downtown Seoul on October 9. Photo: EPA-EFE

Samsung heir ‘wrongfully’ freed from jail, South Korean court rules

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.

29 Aug 2019 - 3:01PM

Explainer | Samsung heir’s corruption case a new test for firm hit by 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.

29 Aug 2019 - 4:19PM

From Singapore to Manila, how Asia sees Hong Kong protests

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.

24 Jun 2019 - 2:25PM

The Hong Kong protesters’ audacity – in particular their open defiance of the city’s ultimate political masters in Beijing – has gained them widespread praise. Photo: Dickson Lee

Letters | From Seoul, a message of unity to Hong Kong protesters

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.

16 Jun 2019 - 10:58AMvideocam

Hong Kong protests ‘hit raw nerve’ with Koreans, spurring support

More than 20,000 Koreans sign a petition urging action from President Moon Jae-in as many remember their own history of protest.

2 Jul 2019 - 10:54AM

What fortune-tellers told Korea’s disgraced president Park about Xi

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.

21 May 2019 - 4:25PM

Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye at a 2017 hearing on the extension of her detention at the Seoul Central District Court. Photo: AP

How Moon’s anti-corruption scheme threatens South Korean democracy

If Moon can create a special new agency to investigate corruption, we can expect him to use it against his political opponents, who have been emboldened by his failing diplomatic and domestic policies.

3 May 2019 - 5:18PM

With the South Korean economy contracting in the first quarter of 2019 and the negotiations process with North Korea stymied, critics say President Moon Jae-in is now moving to silence criticism in other ways. Photo: Yonhap via AP

Giant killers: the shareholder ‘ants’ taking on Korea’s Chaebol

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.

22 Oct 2018 - 4:00PM

Court extends sentence of former South Korea president Park to 25 years

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.

24 Aug 2018 - 10:34AM

South Korea’s Park given eight more years in prison

Disgraced former president now sentenced to total of 32 years for corruption and pocketing kickbacks.

20 Jul 2018 - 10:45PM

A supporter of South Korea’s former president Park Geun-hye at a protest demanding her release outside Seoul Central District Court on July 20, 2018. Photo: AFP

South Korea to probe military plan to quell Park protests

10 Jul 2018 - 10:09PM

Current President Moon Jae-in ordered his defence minister to establish a special team to investigate

Don’t be demoralised by Occupy failure, says lauded Korean news anchor

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.

19 May 2018 - 10:33AM

Reflections | From abdication to vivisection, how China’s emperors fell from grace

A look back at the many disgraces experienced by erstwhile Chinese rulers

19 Apr 2018 - 3:58PM

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Park Geun-hye

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.

Born

2 Feb 1952

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Job Title

Former President of South Korea

last updated:

7 October, 2024