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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, after attending a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, after attending a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, after attending a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, after attending a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, after attending a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon (C), the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, leaves the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, after attending a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon, the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon (C), the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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Court hearing for Unification Church leader

Hak Ja Han Moon (C), the leader of the Unification Church, now formally known as the Family Federation for World Peace and Unification, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 22, 2025, to attend a hearing to review her arrest warrant requested by special prosecutors.

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South Korea Orders the Arrest of The Wife of Ex-President - Seoul

Kim Keon-hee (C), wife of former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, is seen at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, August 12, 2025. The Seoul Central District Court issued a warrant to detain Kim Keon-hee Tuesday night, on charges of violating the capital market act, the political funds act and a law on the acceptance of bribes for mediation, saying that the move aimed to prevent Kim from destroying evidence. Kim was jailed in the Seoul Southern Detention Center in Seoul, where she had been awaiting the court's decision after attending the court hearing on her detention. (NEWSIS/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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South Korea Orders the Arrest of The Wife of Ex-President - Seoul

Kim Keon-hee (C), wife of former South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol, is seen at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul, South Korea, August 12, 2025. The Seoul Central District Court issued a warrant to detain Kim Keon-hee Tuesday night, on charges of violating the capital market act, the political funds act and a law on the acceptance of bribes for mediation, saying that the move aimed to prevent Kim from destroying evidence. Kim was jailed in the Seoul Southern Detention Center in Seoul, where she had been awaiting the court's decision after attending the court hearing on her detention. (NEWSIS/Handout via Xinhua/ABACAPRESS.COM

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Ex-S. Korea president Yoon detained again

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on July 9, 2025, for a court hearing over whether to issue a new arrest warrant over charges linked to his short-lived declaration of martial law the previous year. (Pool photo)

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Ex-S. Korea president Yoon detained again

Supporters of former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol stage a rally in front of the Seoul Central District Court on July 9, 2025, as he attends a court hearing over whether to issue a new arrest warrant over charges linked to his short-lived declaration of martial law the previous year.

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Ex-S. Korea president Yoon detained again

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on July 9, 2025, for a court hearing over whether to issue a new arrest warrant over charges linked to his short-lived declaration of martial law the previous year. (Pool photo)

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Ex-S. Korean President Yoon attends trial

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) arrives to attend his insurrection trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on May 12, 2025. (Pool photo)

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Ex-S. Korean President Yoon attends trial

Former South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol (C) arrives to attend his insurrection trial at the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on May 12, 2025. (Pool photo)

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1st hearing for impeached S. Korea president

Photo taken Feb. 20 shows the Seoul Central District Court, where the preparatory hearing for the criminal trial of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol was held the same day following his indictment for insurrection over his declaration of martial law in December 2024.

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1st hearing for impeached S. Korea president

South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol's motorcade heads to the Seoul Central District Court on Feb. 20, 2025, for the first preparatory hearing for his criminal trial following his indictment for insurrection for having declared martial law in December 2024.

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Court hearing on S. Korea's opposition leader

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae Myung (C) is pictured in front of the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 26, 2023. He attended the court's hearing the same day on his arrest warrant on corruption charges.

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Court hearing on S. Korea's opposition leader

South Korea's main opposition Democratic Party leader Lee Jae Myung (C) is pictured in front of the Seoul Central District Court in Seoul on Sept. 26, 2023. He attended the court's hearing the same day on his arrest warrant on corruption charges.

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S. Korean court turns down arrest warrant for Lotte Group chairman

TOKYO, Japan, Sept. 29 Kyodo - Undated photo shows Lotte Group Chairman Shin Dong Bin. The Seoul Central District Court on Sept. 29, 2016 dismissed an arrest warrant request by state prosecutors for the 61-year-old business tycoon, also known by the Japanese name Akio Shigemitsu, on charges of embezzlement and breach of trust, according to local media.

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S. Korean protesters stop car carrying Japanese reporter

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a South Korean conservative group block a car carrying Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, in front of the Seoul Central District Court in this file photo taken on Nov. 27. 2014. Kato has been indicted on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. Local police sent papers on three of the protesters to prosecutors for damaging the vehicle on Dec. 24.

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Reporter pleads not guilty to defaming S. Korean pres.

SEOUL, South Korea - Members of a conservative South Korean civic group protest against a car carrying Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japanese mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, in the South Korean capital on Nov. 27, 2014, after Kato pleaded not guilty at the first preliminary hearing at the Seoul Central District Court on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts during the deadly ferry disaster in April.

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Japanese reporter pleads not guilty to defaming S. Korean president

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japanese mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, appears at the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on Nov. 27, 2014, for the first preliminary hearing on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts during the deadly ferry disaster in April. Kato pleaded not guilty at the hearing.

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Japanese reporter pleads not guilty to defaming S. Korean president

SEOUL, South Korea - Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of the Japanese mass-circulation daily Sankei Shimbun, appears at the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on Nov. 27, 2014, for the first preliminary hearing on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about her whereabouts during the deadly ferry disaster in April. Kato pleaded not guilty at the hearing.

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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II.

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Court orders Nachi-Fujikoshi to compensate forced laborers

SEOUL, South Korea - A woman, one of the plaintiffs filing a lawsuit against Japan's Nachi-Fujikoshi Corp. to seek compensation for their forced labor, speaks to reporters in Seoul on Oct. 30, 2014, after the Seoul Central District Court ordered Fujikoshi to pay compensation ranging from 80 million to 100 million won (about $76,000-$95,000) each. Thirteen victims of forced labor and the relatives of four now-deceased victims have claimed they were deceived into going to study in Japan's Toyama City, where the company is based, and forced to perform hard labor without sufficient food and sleep during the World War II.

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Japanese reporter found innocent by S. Korean court

SEOUL, South Korea - Masaki Tachikawa, a Japanese reporter who was convicted by a South Korean military court in 1974 after interviewing students of an allegedly pro-North Korea group, speaks to reporters after the Seoul Central District Court handed down a verdict of ''not guilty.''

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IOC Vice President Kim Un Yong gets 30 months in jail

SEOUL, South Korea - The Seoul Central District Court sentenced Kim Un Yong (file photo), the South Korean vice president of the International Olympic Committee, to two years and six months in jail for embezzlement and bribe-taking.

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Daughter of Lotte group founder arrested

Photo taken July 6, 2016, in Seoul shows Sin Yong Ja (C), the eldest daughter of Lotte group founder Takeo Shigemitsu, presenting herself at the Seoul Central District Court. Sin was arrested by prosecutors early July 7 on suspicion of receiving improper payments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Daughter of Lotte group founder arrested

Photo taken July 6, 2016, in Seoul shows Sin Yong Ja (C), the eldest daughter of Lotte group founder Takeo Shigemitsu, presenting herself at the Seoul Central District Court. Sin was arrested by prosecutors early July 7 on suspicion of receiving improper payments. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Abe appreciates S. Korean court's acquittal of Japanese reporter

Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks to reporters at the prime minister's office in Tokyo on Dec. 17, 2015, after South Korea's Seoul Central District Court acquitted a Japanese journalist who had been charged with defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article published in August last year. Abe said, "I appreciate (the court) handed down the acquittal." (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist acquitted of defaming S. Korean leader

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily, speaks at a news conference in Seoul on Dec. 17, 2015, after the Seoul Central District Court acquitted of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article published in August 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist acquitted of defaming S. Korean leader

Tatsuya Kato, the former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily, speaks at a news conference in Seoul on Dec. 17, 2015, after the Seoul Central District Court acquitted of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article published in August 2014. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean court to hand down ruling on Japanese reporter

Tatsuya Kato, a former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, arrives on Dec. 17, 2015, at the Seoul Central District Court, which will hand down a ruling on him. Kato was indicted for defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Seoul court orders Japanese company to compensate wartime laborers

South Koreans who were forced to work at one of Nippon Steel & Sumitomo Metal Corp.'s predecessor companies during wartime react in front of the Seoul Central District Court on Nov. 13, 2015, after the court ordered the Japanese company to pay them compensation totaling 700 million won for long-lasting physical and mental pain. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Prosecution to demand punishment for ex-Sankei bureau chief

Tatsuya Kato, a former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun, arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on Oct. 19, 2015, to hear the prosecution's demand for punishment against him. Kato has been accused of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an online article in which he referred to rumors she was meeting secretly with a former male aide during the Sewol ferry disaster in 2014 that killed more than 300 people. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese reporter had no intention of defaming ROK leader: academic

Tatsuya Kato (R), former Seoul bureau chief for the Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, and Yasuhiko Tajima, professor at Sophia University in Tokyo, enter the Seoul Central District Court on Aug. 17, 2015. Tajima testified that Kato had no intention of defaming South Korean President Park Geung Hye in his story that cited local news reports saying that Park was absent for several hours during the Sewol ferry disaster in April 2014 because she was with a man. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japan journalist testifies for compatriot charged with defaming S. Korea leader

Yuichi Ueda, Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Nishinippon Shimbun newspaper, speaks to reporters on July 27, 2015, after testifying on behalf of Japanese journalist Tatsuya Kato at the Seoul Central District Court. Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of the Sankei Shimbun daily, has been indicted for allegedly defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Indicted Japanese journalist enters Seoul court for hearing

Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper indicted for allegedly defaming South Koran President Park Geun Hye, enters the Seoul Central District Court for a hearing on July 27, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Japanese journalist enters Seoul court for defamation trial

Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of Japanese newspaper Sankei Shimbun, enters the Seoul Central District Court in the South Korean capital on June 29, 2015, for his trial on charges of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye in an article about the Sewol ferry disaster in April last year. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korean court rejects compensation claims by A-bomb survivors

Plaintiffs announce their plan, at the Seoul Central District Court on June 26, 2015, to appeal to a higher court after the court rejected claims made by a group of South Korean survivors of the 1945 U.S. atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki to seek compensation from the South Korean government. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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S. Korea lifts travel ban on Japanese journalist

Tatsuya Kato, former chief of the Seoul bureau of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, accused of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye, enters the Seoul Central District Court for his trial, in this photo taken March 30, 2015. According to the daily, the South Korean government lifted a travel ban on Kato on April 14. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Sankei reporter enters Seoul court for trial over report on Park

Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, accused of defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye, enters the Seoul Central District Court for his trial on March 30, 2015. (Kyodo) ==Kyodo

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Ex-Sankei bureau chief enters Seoul court for hearing

Tatsuya Kato, former Seoul bureau chief of Japan's Sankei Shimbun daily, enters the Seoul Central District Court for a hearing on Jan. 19, 2015. Kato is charged with defaming South Korean President Park Geun Hye. ==Kyodo

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S. Korean court dismisses ex-comfort women's suit against Japan

Lee Yong Soo, one of 15 surviving "comfort women" acknowledged by the South Korean government who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels, meets the press in Seoul on April 21, 2021, after the Seoul Central District Court dismissed the same day a damages lawsuit brought by a group of former comfort women against the Japanese government over their treatment during World War II.

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S. Korean court dismisses ex-comfort women's suit against Japan

Lee Yong Soo, one of 15 surviving "comfort women" acknowledged by the South Korean government who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels, meets the press in Seoul on April 21, 2021, after the Seoul Central District Court dismissed the same day a damages lawsuit brought by a group of former comfort women against the Japanese government over their treatment during World War II.

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S. Korean court dismisses ex-comfort women's suit against Japan

Lee Yong Soo (C), one of 15 surviving "comfort women" acknowledged by the South Korean government who were forced to work in Japan's wartime military brothels, meets the press in Seoul on April 21, 2021, after the Seoul Central District Court dismissed the same day a damages lawsuit brought by a group of former comfort women against the Japanese government over their treatment during World War II.

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S. Korean court dismisses ex-comfort women's suit against Japan

Photo taken on April 21, 2021, shows a building housing the Seoul Central District Court. The court dismissed the same day a damages lawsuit brought by a group of former "comfort women" against the Japanese government over their treatment at Japanese military brothels during World War II.

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CORRECTED: S. Korea's ousted president Park appears for court hearing

Former South Korean President Park Geun Hye (C) arrives at the Seoul Central District Court on March 30, 2017, for a hearing into a request by state prosecutors for a warrant to arrest her in connection with the corruption and abuse-of-power scandal that ended her presidency. (Pool photo)(Kyodo) ==Kyodo