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Gangster jailed for beating underage members over drinking game, rule infractions

A Suwon court sentenced a gang member to 20 months in prison for repeatedly assaulting underage subordinates over a drinking game and alleged rule violations.

2026.8.4

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol is seen in this undated file photo. [YONHAP]

Special counsel appeals 7-year sentence for ex-interior minister over martial law role

A special counsel team on Wednesday appealed a court ruling sentencing former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min to seven years in prison for his involvement in former President Yoon Suk Yeol's brief imposition of martial law.

2026.2.19

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Lee Jong-ho, a former head of investment firm Blackpearl Invest, arrives at a special counsel team's office in southern Seoul to undergo questioning in this file photo taken Oct. 12, 2025. [YONHAP]

Ex-first lady's former investment manager sentenced to year and half in jail in lobbying case

A Seoul court on Friday sentenced a close associate of former first lady Kim Keon Hee to one and a half years in prison for offering to help a suspect in a stock price manipulation scheme in exchange for money.

2026.2.13

Democracy advocate Jimmy Lai leaves Hong Kong’s Court of Final Appeal in Hong Kong on Feb. 9, 2021. [AP/YONHAP]

Hong Kong ex-media tycoon Jimmy Lai sentenced to 20 years in prison in national security case

Jimmy Lai, the pro-democracy former Hong Kong media tycoon, was sentenced to 20 years in prison in the longest punishment given so far under a China-imposed national security law that has virtually silenced the city’s dissent.

2026.2.9

An image of a statue of Justitia, the goddess of justice [KOREA JOONGANG DAILY]

Man who did 15 years for sexual assault, murder of student returns to jail for sexually assaulting colleague

A man who had spent 15 years in prison for the sexual assault and murder of an elementary school student received a seven-and-a-half year prison term on Monday for sexually assaulting a colleague.

2026.1.19

The Sentencing Commission, chaired by Judge Kim Young-ran, center, holds a meeting at the Supreme Court in May. The commission announced new sentencing guidelines on Tuesday for digital sex crimes that toughen jail sentences for crimes involving minors. [YONHAP]

Longer prison sentences proposed for child porn convictions

Convictions for producing child pornography could soon carry maximum prison sentences of nearly three decades under a proposal for new sentencing guidelines announced by the Supreme Court on Tuesday.

2020.9.15

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sentencing

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Special counsel appeals 7-year sentence for ex-interior minister over martial law role

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Ex-first lady's former investment manager sentenced to year and half in jail in lobbying case

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Man who did 15 years for sexual assault, murder of student returns to jail for sexually assaulting colleague

Longer prison sentences proposed for child porn convictions