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5 days ago · A South Korean court has handed opposition leader Lee Jae-myung a suspended prison sentence after finding him guilty of violating election law. The court said Friday that he made false statements while denying corruption allegations during his presidential campaign. If it stands, the ruling could significantly shake up the country’s politics by potentially unseating Lee Jae-myung as a lawmaker and denying him a shot at running for president. ...
5 days ago · Lee Jae-myung arriving at the Seoul Central District Court. (AP: Ahn Young-joon)Mr Lee, who narrowly lost the 2022 election to conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, has steadfastly denied wrongdoing.
Lee Jae-myung (Korean: 이재명; born 8 December 1963, Andong) is a South Korean lawyer and politician serving as a member of the National Assembly and the leader of the Democratic Party of Korea. Lee was the nominee of the Democratic Party in the 2022 South Korean presidential election.
5 days ago · SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung was convicted of violating election law and sentenced to a suspended prison term Friday by a court that ruled he made false ...
5 days ago · The Seoul Central District Court found that Democratic Party leader Lee Jae-myung, had made a false claim about a land development project while serving as mayor of the city of Seongnam in 2021.
5 days ago · A South Korean court convicted on Friday main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung for violating the election law, handing him a one-year prison term suspended for two years, a penalty that if ...
4 days ago · A court in South Korea has convicted opposition leader Lee Jae-myung for violating election law, casting uncertainty over the prospects of him running for president in next year’s election.
On 2 January 2024, Democratic Party of Korea leader Lee Jae-myung was stabbed while visiting the construction site of an airport in Gadeokdo, Busan. [5] Hospitalized at Pusan National University twenty minutes after the attack, Lee was subsequently transferred by helicopter to Seoul National University Hospital in a conscious state.
Jan 2, 2024 · South Korea’s main opposition party leader Lee Jae-myung is recovering from surgery after being stabbed in the neck during a visit to the southern city of Busan on Tuesday. Lee underwent a vein...
Jan 10, 2024 · South Korean police say the man accused of stabbing South Korean opposition leader Lee Jae-myung in the neck told investigators that he wanted to kill him to prevent him from becoming the country’s president.
