{"id":2000112018,"date":"2026-05-15T12:03:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T10:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/?p=2000112018"},"modified":"2026-05-15T11:49:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T09:49:51","slug":"s-koreas-special-counsel-seeks-7-5-year-sentence-for-ex-president-yoons-wife-for-corruptions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/s-koreas-special-counsel-seeks-7-5-year-sentence-for-ex-president-yoons-wife-for-corruptions\/","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea’s special counsel seeks 7.5-year sentence for ex-President Yoon’s wife for corruptions"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The team of Min Joong-ki, an independent counsel who led investigations into corruption allegations involving the former presidential couple, demanded that the Seoul Central District Court sentence Kim to seven and a half years in prison for selling public offices in exchange for high-priced jewelry, a painting and a designer bag.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim was accused of receiving a necklace, a brooch and earrings from a businessman between March and May 2022 in return for the appointment of his eldest son-in-law to a government post.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

She was charged with receiving a gold turtle from a former head of the national education commission in exchange for an appointment request in April 2022 along with a wristwatch from a robot dog entrepreneur in September of the year in return for business favors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Charges also included receiving a designer bag from a pastor between June and September 2022 and a painting from a former prosecutor in February 2023 in return for a nomination request.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kim, who was indicted under detention in August 2025, became the first wife of a former South Korean president to be tried under detention.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Yoon was sentenced to life in jail in February for insurrection stemming from his martial law declaration in December 2024.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He was indicted under detention in January 2025 as a suspected ringleader of the insurrection, becoming the first sitting president to be arrested and indicted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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South Korea\u2019s former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors, in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 12, 2025. (Jung Yeon-je\/Pool Photo via AP, File)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

South Korea’s special counsel on Friday sought a 7.5-year prison sentence for Kim Keon-hee, wife of former President Yoon Suk-yeol, for corruptions including the sale of government posts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2000112019,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[151,101],"byline":[235],"hashtag":[],"class_list":["post-2000112018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-justice","tag-editors-choice","tag-internationl","byline-xinhua"],"bylines":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"contributors":[{"id":235,"name":"Xinhua","slug":"xinhua","description":"","image":{"id":0,"url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&f=y&r=g","alt":"Default avatar","title":"Default avatar","caption":"","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","sizes":[]},"user_id":80}],"featured_image":{"id":2000112019,"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12-1.jpg","alt":"","caption":"South Korea\u2019s former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at a court to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors, in Seoul, South Korea, on Aug. 12, 2025. (Jung Yeon-je\/Pool Photo via AP, File)","mime_type":"image\/jpeg","width":1000,"height":697,"sizes":{"thumbnail":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12-1.jpg","width":150,"height":105},"medium":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12-1.jpg","width":300,"height":209},"medium_large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12-1.jpg","width":768,"height":535},"large":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12-1.jpg","width":1000,"height":697},"full":{"url":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/12-1.jpg","width":1000,"height":697}}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000112018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2000112018"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000112018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000112020,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000112018\/revisions\/2000112020"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2000112019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000112018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000112018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000112018"},{"taxonomy":"byline","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/byline?post=2000112018"},{"taxonomy":"hashtag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/hashtag?post=2000112018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}