Park Geun Hye News

Lotte chief Shin Dong-bin was sentenced to 30 months in prison after a Seoul Court found him guilty of bribery charges in exchange for govt favours in providing a license to operate duty-free stores

Ousted South Korean president Park Geun-hye's secret confidante Choi Soon-sil is jailed for 20 years for her key role in a scandal that brought down the former head of state

A South Korean high court has freed Samsung Electronics Co. vice chairman Jay Y. Lee after suspending his prison sentence for bribery

Jay Y. Lee , heir to Samsung, appeared before a court in Seoul for the first day of arguments in the appeal of his 5-year jail term for corruption

Rhetoric around the case has escalated since Jay Y. Lee was convicted of bribery, the latest stage in a scandal that brought down a president and tainted Samsung's reputation

The defence lawyer of Samsung Electronics vice chairman Jay Y. Lee files an appeal against the five-year jail term his client has been handed for bribery and other charges

Only by ensuring that Samsung heir Jay Y. Lee serves his full sentence, will the South Korean govt send a convincing message that corporate malfeasance will no longer be tolerated

Samsung vice chairman Jay Y. Lee was convicted of bribery, sentenced to 5-years in prison, a blow to the heir apparent of the world's biggest maker of smartphones, memory chips

Since Jay Y. Lee was arrested in February, Samsung Electronics posted record net income and its shares reached an all-time high

Lee Jae-Yong, vice president of Samsung and the son of group chairman Lee Kun-Hee, had first time faced interrogation since the proceedings began in March