Former president Lee Myung-bak and former Gyeongnam governor Kim Gyeong-soo. Kyunghyang Shinmun data picture
The government is finalizing the recipients of the New Year’s special pardon at a cabinet meeting chaired by President Yoon Seok-yeol on the 27th.
According to the results of the review by the Ministry of Justice’s amnesty review committee on the 23rd, former president Lee Myung-bak (MB) and former Gyeongnam governor Kim Gyeong-soo are expected to be pardoned.
Lee, who is expected to be pardoned and reinstated, was sentenced to 17 years in prison in October 2020 on charges of robbery and bribery. Lee’s execution is currently on hold for health reasons. Lee was investigated by the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office in April 2018, when President Yoon was the head of the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, and was handed over for trial.
Former Governor Kim, who is serving a sentence in the ‘Drinking Attention Manipulation Incident’, is expected to receive amnesty without a lottery ticket. Former Governor Kim was sentenced to two years in prison by the Supreme Court in July last year, and his sentence ends in May next year. If the lottery does not take place, the right to vote will be restricted until May 2028.
Former presidential chief of staff Kim Ki-choon from the Park Geun-hye administration, former Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Strategy and Finance Choi Kyung-hwan, former National Intelligence Service directors Nam Jae-joon, Lee Byung-ki, and Lee Byung -ho, and former NIS director Won Sei-hoon of the Lee Myung-bak administration also expected to be included in the pardons and restorations.
Opposition figures such as former Democratic Party lawmaker Jeon Byung-hun and former Democratic Party lawmaker Shin Gye-ryun, and former Gwangju Mayor Kang Woon-tae, who served as senior presidential secretary for political affairs in the Moon Jae-in administration . also waiting to be pardoned and reinstated.
The pardon comes into effect from 0:00 on the 28th, the day after passing the Council of State.
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