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S. Korean court upholds prison term for ex-president Park
SEOUL, Korea, Republic Of — South Korea’s Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a 20-year prison term for former President Park Geun-hye over bribery and other crimes as it ended a historic corruption case that marked a striking fall from grace for the country’s first female leader and conservative icon.
The ruling means Park, who was ousted from office and arrested in 2017, could potentially serve a combined 22 years behind bars, following a separate conviction for illegally meddling in her party’s candidate nominations ahead of parliamentary elections in 2016.
But the finalizing of her prison term also makes her eligible for a special presidential pardon, a looming possibility as the country’s deeply split electorate approaches the next presidential election in March 2022.
President Moon Jae-in, a liberal who won the presidential following Park’s removal, has yet to directly address the possibility of freeing his predecessor
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The second in an award-winning series of interviews with Korean theater professionals, first published in The Dong-A Ilbo.
He felt like a free spirit. Perhaps that was why I imagined, for a second, his five-foot-eleven figure being buffeted by the wind and his tanned, unprotected face bare in the sun.
“I started drinking in my first year of high school. When I was younger, I liked to drink makkeoli. Now I drink anything. But I like people more than drinking. So I don’t drink alone. Often I drink with other actors in the same play or people who came to see the play. And most of the time, we split the bill. The problem is, though, it takes a lot longer for me to get over my hangovers now. There are days when I can’t do anything the next day. Maybe it’s because I drank too much over the years. But I don’t do anything stupid when I’m drunk.”
Why all these questions about drinking in an interview with a stage theater actor? My answer is that Park likes drinking so much tha
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History of South Korea
For history of Korea before its division, see History of Korea.
The history of South Korea begins with the Japanese surrender on 2 September 1945.[1] At that time, South Korea and North Korea were divided, despite being the same people and on the same peninsula. In 1950, the Korean War broke out. North Korea overran South Korea until US-led UN forces intervened. At the end of the war in 1953, the border between South and North remained largely similar. Tensions between the two sides continued. South Korea alternated between dictatorship and liberal democracy. It underwent substantial economic development.
Background
[edit]After Japan's defeat in the Pacific War in 1945, the Korean region, which was part of Japan's territory, was occupied bygd American and Soviet forces. In 1948, with the end of the U.S. military government, South Korea declared its independence from Japan as the Republic of Korea. In 1952, when Japan approved the independenc