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<div><span class="fr-img-caption fr-fic fr-dib" style="width:960px;display:block" width="960"><span class="fr-img-wrap"><img src="https://od2-image-api.abs-cbn.com/prod/editorImage/17824587313271782458727573.png" style="width:960px" class="fr-fic fr-dib" width="960"/><span class="fr-inner" style="text-align:left"></span></span></span></div><p>South Korea&#x27;s former first lady Kim Keon Hee, wife of impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol, arrives at the special prosecutor&#x27;s office in Seoul on August 6, 2025. Anthony Wallace, AFP/File</p><div><br/></div><div><br/></div><p>A South Korean court sentenced former first lady Kim Keon-hee, already serving time for a different graft case, to another seven years&#x27; imprisonment on Friday in a jobs-for-gifts scandal.</p><p>Kim was found guilty of accepting &quot;high-value precious metals&quot; in exchange for favors in personnel appointments, according to the livestreamed ruling.</p><div><em>More details to follow. </em></div>

<p>A South Korean court sentenced former first lady Kim Keon-hee, already serving time for a different graft case, to another seven years' imprisonment on Friday in a jobs-for-gifts scandal.</p>

A South Korean court sentenced former first lady Kim Keon-hee, already serving time for a different graft case, to another seven years' imprisonment on Friday in a jobs-for-gifts scandal.

Seoul court sentences former first lady to 7 years in jail in jobs-for-gifts case

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Seoul court sentences former first lady to 7 years in jail in jobs-for-gifts case

Agence France-Presse

Published June 26, 2026 03:26 PM PHT

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