Supreme Court postpones Kim Keon Hee ruling after conflicting lower court verdict in Yoon case

The Supreme Court on Wednesday postponed its ruling on former first lady Kim Keon Hee from Thursday to July 24, after the special counsel asked it to consider a lower court ruling that found former President Yoon Suk Yeol partly guilty over free opinion polls.

The special counsel, investigating allegations that Kim had violated the Political Funds Act by receiving opinion polls from self-proclaimed political broker Myung Tae-kyun, submitted the written judgment from Yoon’s Monday trial and reque ...