Why Lee Sang-min and Han Duck-soo received starkly different sentences in insurrection cases

Former Interior Minister Lee Sang-min nodded during his sentencing on Thursday when the presiding judge asked whether he wished for the court’s not-guilty ruling on the abuse of power charge to be publicly disclosed. Moments earlier, the court had sentenced Lee to seven years in prison for playing what it described as a “key role” in an insurrection and committing perjury. He was acquitted of the abuse of power charge. Lee, who maintained a largely blank expression throughout the hearing, showed