SEOUL -- The leader of South Korea's main opposition party was sentenced on Friday to one year in prison, suspended for two years, in a ruling that, if upheld by higher courts, would reshape the country's political landscape.
Lee Jae-myung of the Democratic Party was found guilty of violating election law by lying in a 2021 media interview as part of his campaign for the presidential election in March the following year. Lee lost that contest by the thinnest margin in South Korea's democratic history to his conservative opponent and current President Yoon Suk Yeol.
