A South Korean court has found former First Lady Kim Keon Hee guilty of accepting luxury items in exchange for political favors and sentenced her to seven years in prison.
The judge said on June 26 that Kim had “exercised her power as first lady to offer jobs and business favors.”
“She received without any hesitation those bribes, which ordinary people would hardly encounter during their lives,” the judge added.
The court said she had received bribes before and during the presidency of Yoon Suk Yeol, who was this year sentenced to life in prison for insurrection over his failed 2024 attempt to impose martial law….
South Korean Former First Lady Jailed for 7 Years for Bribery
