Former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol's wife, Kim Keon Hee was arrested last August on corruption charges. In January 2026, Kim was sentenced to 20 months in prison for corruption, after she received luxury gifts including a Graff diamond necklace and Chanel bag from the Unification Church in return for promises of political favours. In a televised verdict, the court at the time said,"Being closest to a president, a first lady can exert significant influence on him and is a symbolic influence on him and is a symbolic figure who represents the country together with a president. Buf the defendent exploited her position to seek personal gains."On June, 11, Yoon Suk-Yeol was sentenced to 30 years in jail after the Seoul district court found the former president guilty of abuse of power, aiding the enemy and conspiring in the October, 2024 drone incursion from the outset.More about Yoon Suk-yeol's wife's arrestYoon Suk-yeol's wife Kim Keon Hee, was charged with bribery, manipulation of stock prices, and political meddling in August, 2025. Prosecutors had accused the former first lady of making upwards of 800 million won through involvement in a price-fixing scheme involved shares linked to Deutsch Motors, a South Korea-based BMW dealer, during the period from October 2010 to December 2012Kim was accused of receiving expensive gifts up to 80 million won in bribes from the Unificiation Church, and receiving 58 polling services worth 270 million won supplied by political operative Myung Tae-kyun in the lead-up to the 2022 presidential election.In late 2023- a spy camera footage video from September 2022 showing Kim accepting a expensive handbag from someone in Seoul office surfaced. As per reports, the footage was secretly filmed by pastor Choi Jae-young. Under South Korean law, public officials and their spouses cannot receive gifts worth over 1 million won in a single instance or exceeding 3 million won cumulatively within a fiscal year.Kim was later cleared of accusations of manipulating stock prices and violating election finance laws in South Korea.Before Kim Keon Hee became the first lady, she was a businesswoman. Kim graduated with earned a degree in art education from Sookmyung Women's University in 1999, where she faced repeated allegations of plagiarism. The University annuled her degree in 2025, after the University research ethics panel found that her thesis was compromised. In 2009, Yoon Suk-yeol's wife found art exhibition company Covana Contents. In 2019, the South Korean media had alleged that Kim had evaded paying taxes and received kickbacks for hosting art exhibitions.