South Korean politics is a blood sport, which helps explain why miscreants are brought to justice. Why those who were convicted were then pardoned is harder to explain
have cherished their Christmas presents this year as much as Lee Myung-bak. On December 27th Mr Lee, South Korea’s conservative president from 2008 to 2013, was pardoned by Yoon Suk-yeol, the incumbent. He served just over two years of a 17-year sentence handed down in 2020 for bribery and corruption, and was let off from paying 8.2bn won of 18.7bn won in fines and forfeits. He was the fourth South Korean president to be pardoned since democracy arrived in 1987.
Yet none of the pardons has been a matter of public consensus. The pardons of former presidents Chun and Roh led to clashes between protesters and riot police in 1997. Opinion was sharply divided about whether Ms Park and Mr Lee should be pardoned. A poll conducted in December 2022 before Mr Lee was freed found that 53% of South Koreans approved of the idea, but that 39% opposed it.
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