Posted on 08/14/2015 4:53:54 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — South Korea’s President Park Geun-hye on Thursday pardoned a tycoon convicted of embezzlement who heads the country’s third-largest business group.
The justice ministry said in a statement that SK Group’s Chey Tae-won will be among some 6,500 people to be released from prison before the 70th anniversary Saturday of Korea’s liberation from Japan’s colonial occupation.
It said the government decided on pardons for 14 business people including Chey based on their contributions to the national economy....
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0bama wants to open all the Mexican prisons and run them north.
is this some kind of Pardon-a-thon
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