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Newsday: 24/12/2021 06:06 GMT : Former South Korean President's corruption sentence pardoned

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24/12/2021 06:06 GMT 

24/12/2021 06:06 GMT : Former South Korean President's corruption sentence pardoned

Former South Korean President's corruption sentence pardoned

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Former President Park Geun-hye was found guilty in 2017 in a massive corruption scandal.

South Korea's former President Park Geun-hye has been pardoned and will be released from jail. Back in 2017 she was found guilty in a massive corruption scandal.

The disgraced former South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has been pardoned four years into a twenty-two year prison sentence for corruption.  Reaction has ranged from shock and outrage to celebration as we'll hear from Seoul.

South African scientists have said Omicron is a far milder variant of Covid, and now the UK government has released a study confirming this. It means even vulnerable people are less likely to require urgent treatment.

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