President Yoon’s 77-Year Old Mother in Law Denied Bail; Will Remain in Jail
If Korea’ Democratic Party has their way, they want President Yoon’s wife to be in jail with her mother:
The Justice Ministry on Tuesday blocked the early release of President Yoon Suk Yeol’s mother-in-law, who has been serving a one-year prison term for forgery, in its latest round of monthly parole reviews, according to officials close to the matter.
Though Choi Eui-soon, the 77-year-old mother of first lady Kim Keon Hee, was excluded from the latest list of inmates to be released early, she will be reconsidered for next month’s review, under the current law.
Following an hours-long monthly review, the ministry’s Probation and Parole Board decided to “hold off” Choi’s parole, rather than “disallowing” it like they did in February. This allows Choi to be included among the list of inmates eligible for parole review next month, while the previous decision in February had led to her exclusion from the subsequent month’s review held in March.
The ministry has yet to release an official statement on its latest decision.
Choi has been incarcerated at the Dongbu Detention Center in Songpa-gu, southern Seoul since July last year, after an appellate court confirmed her one-year prison sentence for falsifying her bank balance certificate to make it appear as though she had deposited 34.9 billion won ($25.4 million) in the account for a land purchase deal, as well as for purchasing property using other people’s names.
Korea Herald
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That is certainly not true. Korean democratic party has their way, Yoon’s wife, along with his mother, and Yoon himself sitting in prison.
This will certainly happen in 3 years when Yoon’s party no longer rules.
I had hoped that Korea had completely moved beyond the third world country it was when I first experienced it under Chun Doo-Hwan in the mid eighties. I guess in some ways, it’s still a third world banana republic country.
The real Banana Republic is the US, currently. Can you imagine the thoughts running through the Korean viewers’ heads when they watch this news and see what America has become shown below with massive attacks against freedom of speech for protesting to end the war in the Middle East? Arrest people for peacefully protesting and deploying the military to stop the protests, really?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAp9rGUDwIc
We have not been giving “Korean Man” enough credit!
He is actually famous!!
His life story has been immortalized in song!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yuoFsi2iIi0
@Korean Man — “Arrest people for peacefully protesting and deploying the military to stop the protests, really?”
The arrests aren’t for peacefully protesting. They are for criminal acts committed while they were, coincidentally, protesting.
My policy is to scedule Muslim terrorist and Jewish terrorist events at the same time on the same campus.
Then we pass out bats, chains, machetes, bottles of gas, whatever, and tell them God is with them but the other side are all babykillers and Nazis.
When the dust has settled, we Kent State the survivors.
Modern problems require time-tested solutions.
GI, the gravatar is only here at the ‘drop.
I always welcome CH’s fair and balanced viewpoint
By supporting Yoon, the Setnaffarians want Korea to become a banana republic.