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Newsday: 24/12/2021 05:06 GMT : Former South Korean President released from jail

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24/12/2021 05:06 GMT : Former South Korean President released from jail

Former South Korean President released from jail

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Park Geun-Hye, who was serving a 22 year term, has been given a presidential pardon

The disgraced former South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has been pardoned four years into a twenty-two year prison sentence for corruption. She was the country's first democratically-elected leader to be forced from office.

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