SEOUL: A former South Korean provincial governor who once ran for presidential nomination was jailed for three and a half years for molesting an aide after his earlier acquittal was overturned in one of the country’s most high-profile MeToo cases.
An Hee-jung had been a rising star in South Korea’s ruling party before he quit in March 2018, hours after the aide accused him of repeated sexual assault.
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