Conservative heavyweight loses seat over Unification Church bribery scandal

Kweon Seong-dong, a five-term lawmaker of the main opposition People Power Party, was stripped of his National Assembly seat on Thursday, as his two-year jail term was confirmed at the Supreme Court over a sweeping scandal linked to the Unification Church.

The Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the lower court's decision to convict the conservative bigwig of receiving illegal political funds of 100 million won ($67,000) from a senior Unification Church official in January 2022.

The court also uphe ...