Mr Woo Won-shik will be here from Jan 18 to Jan 21 at the invitation of Speaker of Parliament Seah Kian Peng. Read more at straitstimes.com. Read more at straitstimes.com.

Former president Chun Doo-hwan, who ruled South Korea in the 1980s as a military dictator, was sentenced to death for leading an insurrection, though this was later reduced to life imprisonment. His ally and successor Roh Tae-woo was handed a lengthy jail term for his part in the insurrection. Both were eventually pardoned.

A South Korean court sentenced former President Yoon Suk Yeol to five years in prison Friday in the first verdict from eight criminal trials over the martial law debacle that forced him out of office and other claims.

South Korea passes laws to integrate tokenized securities into capital markets, enabling blockchain-based trading.