South Korea’s former first woman Kim Keon Hee arrives on the particular prosecutor’s workplace in Seoul, South Korea, August 6, 2025.
Kim Hong-Ji | Reuters
South Korea on Friday reportedly indicted former Prime Minister Han Duck-soo and ex-first woman Kim Keon Hee.
Han faces prices of abetting the short-lived martial legislation bid by ousted president Yoon Suk Yeol, whereas Kim, Yoon’s spouse, was indicted over corruption and bribery prices.
South Korean media outlet Yonhap mentioned Han’s prices embrace “abetting the ringleader of an riot, perjury, falsifying and destroying official paperwork, and different offenses.”
Yoon had declared martial legislation in December 2024, however that was brief lived and led to his impeachment and elimination from workplace earlier this yr.
He was arrested and faces prices of riot over his martial legislation bid, which carries a most penalty of demise.
Yonhap reported that Kim was accused of offering funds for a inventory manipulation scheme, in addition to receiving free opinion polls forward of the presidential election in 2022.
She can also be suspected of receiving luxurious items from the Unification Church, a non secular motion based in Seoul, in alternate for enterprise favors in 2022.
These prices come as President Lee Jae Myung reportedly accredited laws again in June for investigations into Yoon’s martial legislation bid, in addition to probes into Kim and different allegations towards Yoon’s administration.
Yoon had beforehand vetoed these investigations whereas in workplace, in response to home media.
These probes had reportedly led to raids on a church in South Korea and into Osan Air Base, a joint base operated by each the U.S. and South Korean air forces.
U.S. President Donald Trump had referenced these raids forward of his assembly with South Korea’s Lee on Monday stateside, saying that there have been “very vicious raids on church buildings” and “that they even went right into a navy base and received data.”
Earlier than his assembly with Lee, Trump had posted on Reality Social, saying “WHAT IS GOING ON IN SOUTH KOREA? Looks like a Purge or Revolution. We won’t have that and do enterprise there,” though he didn’t reference any particular occasion.
The U.S. president later softened his stance throughout the assembly with Lee, saying that “I am positive it is a misunderstanding.”
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