SEOUL: A South Korean appeals court increased the sentence of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday (Apr 29) to seven years for obstructing justice, up from five years.A lower court had handed Yoon the initial sentence in January after he was found to have used presidential security agents to blo

SEOUL: A South Korean appeals court increased the sentence of jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday (Apr 29) to seven years for obstructing justice, up from five years.A lower court had handed Yoon the initial sentence in January after he was found to have used presidential security agents to blo

The conviction for obstruction of justice and other charges comes on top of a life sentence President Yoon Suk Yeol has already received on rebellion charges.

An appeals court has increased to four years the sentence for the wife of South Korea’s ousted President Yoon Suk Yeol for corruption, weeks after her husband was sentenced to life in prison for rebellion. In January, ex-first lady Kim Keon Hee was sentenced to 20 months in prison in…

An appeals court on Wednesday increased the sentence for former President Yoon Suk Yeol from five years to seven years in prison on obstruction of justice and other charges stemming from his failed martial law bid.

SEOUL | Xinhua |  The sentence for former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol was increased to seven years on Wednesday on appeal for obstruction of arrest, according to the rule of the Seoul High Court. The court overturned the lower court’s ruling, lengthening Yoon’s prison term from five to seven years. The team of Cho …