{"id":356481,"date":"2018-04-13T00:56:54","date_gmt":"2018-04-12T23:56:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ex-south-korean-president-park-sentenced-to-24-years-jail\/"},"modified":"2018-04-13T00:56:54","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T23:56:54","slug":"ex-south-korean-president-park-sentenced-to-24-years-jail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/ex-south-korean-president-park-sentenced-to-24-years-jail\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-South Korean President Park sentenced to 24 years jail"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2>Ex-South Korean President Park sentenced to 24 years jail<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Ben McGrath<br \/>\n    <br \/>12 April 2018<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye last week received a 24-year prison sentence and fines of 18 billion won ($16.8 million) following her conviction on 16 counts of bribery, abuse of power, and leaking state secrets. Her removal from office in 2017 and jailing are an attempt by sections of the South Korean ruling class to deflect mounting anger in the working class over falling living conditions.<\/p>\n<p>Park was found guilty by the Seoul Central District Court of demanding and accepting bribes from some of South Korea\u2019s biggest chaebols\u2014family-owned conglomerates\u2014including Samsung, Lotte, and SK\u2014amounting to $23.2 billion won ($22.1 million). She was convicted of abuse of power for working with her longtime friend Choi Soon-sil to also funnel money into two foundations controlled by Choi\u2014Mir and K-Sports.<\/p>\n<p>The National Assembly impeached Park in December 2016 and the Constitutional Court removed her from office within three months. Her administration was marked by scandals over the National Intelligence Service\u2019s interference in elections and her government\u2019s inaction over the sinking of the Sewol ferry in April 2014 that killed 304 people, mostly high school students on a field trip.<\/p>\n<p>The political parties and media are trying to paint the public hostility toward Park\u2019s administration as simply being due to her personal incompetence and dishonesty. In fact, working class and student anger grew in response to declining social conditions and the growing danger of war, driven by the US, with North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>High unemployment, particularly among youth, police attacks on striking workers, cozy relations with the chaebols, and a push to privatize public industries and further&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2018\/04\/12\/skor-a12.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Ex-South Korean President Park sentenced to 24 years jail By Ben McGrath 12 April 2018 Former South Korean President Park Geun-hye last week received a 24-year prison sentence and fines of 18 billion won ($16.8 million) following her conviction on 16 counts of bribery, abuse of power, and leaking state secrets. Her removal from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-356481","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356481","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=356481"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/356481\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=356481"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=356481"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=356481"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}