Seoul, March 2 (IANS) South Korean President Lee Jae Myung has nominated a four-term lawmaker of the ruling Democratic Party as budget minister and a former senior fisheries official as oceans minister, Cheong Wa Dae said Monday. Representative Park Hong-keun has been tapped to lead the Ministry of Planning and Budget, while Hwang Jong-woo, chair of the Korea Maritime Cooperation Center’s international cooperation committee, was named to head the Ministry of Oceans and Fisheries, Lee Kyu-yeon, p…
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Seoul, Feb 4 (IANS) South Korean Opposition leader Jang Dong-hyeok on Wednesday called for the launch of separate special counsel probes into the Unification Church’s alleged ties with lawmakers of the ruling Democratic Party (DP) and bribery allegations linked to the DP nominations.In a speech at the National Assembly, Jang of the main opposition People Power Party also demanded an independent investigation into the prosecution’s controversial decision last November not to appeal a land develop…
Tokyo, Feb 4 (IANS) Tetsuya Yamagami, the man who fatally shot former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022, filed an appeal on Wednesday against his life sentence.The Nara District Court on January 21 handed down a life sentence to Yamagami, 45, who was convicted of murder and other charges for shooting Abe with a homemade gun in July 2022 while the former leader was delivering a campaign speech on a street in Nara.The ruling rejected the defence counsel’s argument that his unfavorable upb…
Seoul, Feb 2 (IANS) South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee on Monday appealed against a court ruling sentencing her to 20 months in prison for accepting luxury gifts from the Unification Church. Last Wednesday, the Seoul Central District Court handed down the sentence, making Kim and her husband, ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, the country’s first former presidential couple to be imprisoned with criminal convictions.The court found Kim guilty of accepting a Chanel bag and a Graff di…
Seoul, Jan 30 (IANS) A special counsel on Friday appealed a court ruling in the corruption case of South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee that handed down a prison term but found her not guilty on most charges, saying the court misapprehended the facts and that the sentence was too lenient. The appeal comes two days after Kim, the wife of South Korea’s ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, was sentenced to 20 months in prison for accepting luxury gifts from the Unification Church in retur…
Seoul, Jan 29 (IANS) The South Korea’s main opposition People Power Party (PPP) said on Thursday that it has expelled former party chief Han Dong-hoon over his family’s posting of defamatory comments about former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife on a party bulletin board.The party’s supreme council finalised the decision about two weeks after its ethics committee voted to oust Han for the conduct it said had damaged the party’s image.Han’s family has been accused of posting derogatory commen…
Seoul, Jan 28 (IANS) A South Korean court on Wednesday sentenced former First Lady Kim Keon Hee to one year and eight months in prison after finding her guilty of accepting luxury gifts from the Unification Church that had sought business favours. Special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team had sought a 15-year prison term for Kim, the wife of ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol, who stands trial on an insurrection charge related to his martial law bid in 2024.But the Seoul Central District Court handed down…
Seoul, Jan 28 (IANS) A South Korean court is set to deliver its verdict on Wednesday on the corruption and bribery case of former first lady Kim Keon Hee, the wife of ousted former President Yoon Suk Yeol, marking the first ruling of three criminal trials she faces.The Seoul Central District Court is scheduled to hold the sentencing hearing at 2:10 p.m., which will be televised live.If found guilty, Kim and her husband would become the first former presidential couple to both be convicted. Yoon …
Seoul, Jan 27 (IANS) A South Korean court on Tuesday allowed live broadcasts of this week’s ruling on the corruption and bribery case of former first lady Kim Keon Hee. The Seoul Central District Court said it accepted broadcasters’ request to air the verdict, which will be delivered at a hearing scheduled for 2:10 p.m. Wednesday, Yonhap News Agency reported.The court typically allows live broadcasts in consideration of the public interest.Special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team has requested a 15-y…
Tokyo, Jan 21 (IANS) A Japanese court on Wednesday sentenced the man charged with the assassination of former Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe in 2022 to life in prison, terming the shooting using a homemade gun with adequate lethal power “vile and extremely vicious,” local media reported. The Nara District Court sentenced Tetsuya Yamagami (45) to life in prison as prosecutors had demanded.Yamagami admitted to killing Abe using a homemade firearm while the former Japanese PM was delivering a s…