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South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol speaks during a joint press conference with Mauritanian President Mohamed Ould Ghazouani, chairperson of the African Union, following the 2024 Korea-Africa Summit in Goyang on June 4, 2024. (Photo by Jung Yeon-je / AFP)
South Korea's former justice minister will be pardoned this week after serving less than half of his sentence for academic fraud related to his children's college admissions, authorities announced Monday.
Once a rising political star, Cho Kuk had been tipped to run for president before an academic admissions scandal engulfed his family and set off protests in 2019.
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