Sarkozy’s predecessor, Jacques Chirac, also faced criminal charges. He was slapped with a two-year suspended sentence in 2011 ...

Roh Moo-hyun, from the liberal party, died of suicide while he and his close circle were investigated for bribery. Lee Myung-bak and Park Geun-hye were convicted and sentenced to prison over ...

(CNN)-- More than nuclear bomb tests, the suicide of former South Korean president Roh Moo-Hyun has stunned the South Korean public. While the news has shocked the nation, perhaps the level of ...

Lee’s predecessor, Roh Moo-hyun, who was president from 2003 to 2008, killed himself a year later amid an investigation by prosecutors into allegations he accepted more than $6m in bribes from a ...

Commercial phone lines connecting Seoul and Busan open. 1981 -- The Korea Fair Trade Commission, the nation's antitrust watchdog, is launched. 2003 -- The National Assembly passes a revision bill on ...

Prosecutor general promises swift investigation into first lady's acceptance of luxury bag ...

And from 2008-2013 President Lee Myung-bak. Even liberal leader Roh Moo-hyun, who occupied the presidential Blue House from 2003 to 2008, talked a good game of increasing corporate transparency.

Many personnel involved in the democratic movement have worked in the administrations of South Korean reformist leaders Kim Dae-jung, Roh Moo-hyun and Moon Jae-in. The Roh government had set up a ...

Since the Roh Moo-hyun administration, the custom of the government providing some subsidies to media companies has ...

SEOUL, South Korea (CNN)-- South Korean President Roh Moo-hyun signed an eight-point peace agreement with North Korean leader Kim Jong Il on Thursday at a summit in Pyongyang, North Korea.

South Korea's President Roh Moo-hyun is on a tour of Spain and Italy hoping to promote his country's economic interests in Europe. Roh's weeklong itinerary also includes a stop in Vatican City ...