{"id":40058,"date":"2021-12-24T12:10:37","date_gmt":"2021-12-24T03:10:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/park-geun-hye-to-receive-pardon-for-corruption-as-south-korean-president"},"modified":"2021-12-25T09:15:16","modified_gmt":"2021-12-25T00:15:16","slug":"former-south-korean-president-park-geun-hye-to-receive-pardon-for-corruption","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=40058","title":{"rendered":"Former South Korean president Park Geun-hye pardoned for corruption"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Jae-in, her successor, has freed Park from 22-year sentence three months ahead of presidential election<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/south-korea\">South Korea<\/a>\u2019s disgraced former president <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/park-geun-hye\">Park Geun-hye<\/a> has been pardoned by her successor, Moon Jae-in, in a special amnesty that could influence voters in a presidential election that is just three months away.<\/p>\n<p>Park has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2018\/apr\/06\/former-south-korea-president-park-geun-hye-guilty-of-corruption\">serving a 22-year sentence following her impeachment in 2017<\/a> and conviction for corruption and abuse of power, after a scandal that exposed webs of double-dealing between political leaders and conglomerates.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2021\/dec\/24\/park-geun-hye-to-receive-pardon-for-corruption-as-south-korean-president\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Moon Jae-in, her successor, has freed Park from 22-year sentence three months ahead of presidential electionSouth Korea\u2019s disgraced former president Park Geun-hye has been pardoned by her successor, Moon Jae-in, in a special amnesty that could influenc&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":344,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,2459,222,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-park-geun-hye","category-south-korea","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/344"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=40058"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":40092,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40058\/revisions\/40092"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=40058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=40058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=40058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}