# Seoul Central District Court convicts Lee of election-law false statements, suspended prison Date: 2024 ## The fact On 15 November 2024 the Seoul Central District Court found [Lee Jae-myung](/people/lee-jae-myung) guilty of disseminating false information under the Public Official Election Act over 2022-campaign remarks (including golf with Kim Moon-ki and Baekhyeon-dong land-use pressure) and imposed one year in prison, suspended for two years. ## Context He was DP leader. He did not sit as the court. A first-instance finding is still a dated judgment, remaining later appeal named. Daejang-dong 2015 is a neighbouring controversy. High Court acquittal 26 March 2025 and Supreme Court remand 1 May 2025 are children. The President of the Republic of Korea is head of state and of the executive, appoints the prime minister with [National Assembly](/organizations/national-assembly) consent, and commands the armed forces. The National Assembly enacts statutes. The Bank of Korea sets the policy rate. Courts, including the Supreme Court and Constitutional Court, judge. Chaebol boards, US Forces Korea, and provincial governments share later series. A Seongnam mayoral youth dividend or debt moratorium is not a 2025 statute. A criminal case must be stored with exact charge and judgment status — an allegation, indictment, first-instance finding, appellate acquittal, Supreme Court remand, or Article 84 stay is not a completed conviction if appealed, overturned, or pending. He did not author Yoon Suk Yeol’s 3 December 2024 martial-law decree. ## Evidence and sources Supreme Court of Korea carries the official instrument or communique. Associated Press records the same dated act independently. ## Significance The path is [institutional corruption](/drivers/institutional-corruption) and justice: a completed first-instance election-law conviction, remaining later acquittal-then-remand named. ## What is established and what is not Established: 15 November 2024 first-instance guilty finding and suspended one-year term, independently reported. Not established: a finalized unique conviction after all appeals, or a unique later 10-year ineligibility coefficient from that Friday. What would change the picture: a contradictory original with a different date or name, a later repeal, a court that vacated the instrument, or a measured series that can be argued, with lag and alternatives, as a consequence of this instrument rather than of later institutions. The date is the date of this instrument, not a licence to back-date every later harm or benefit. Prosecutors charged. He was the defendant. Later benches share the child file.. A later repeal, court stay, or successor order would be a different Fact with a different date. That pair identifies Seoul Central District Court convicts Lee of election-law false statements, suspended prison, not a later speech about Seoul Central District Court convicts Lee of election-law false statements, suspended prison. Co-authors and later implementers named in Context remain on the file. Seoul Central District Court convicts Lee of election-law false statements, suspended prison on 2024-11-15 is not a licence to treat every later Supreme Court of Korea communique as this same act. If a later repeal, stay, or successor instrument exists, it needs its own date and its own row. This dossier refuses to average Seoul Central District Court convicts Lee of election-law false statements, suspended prison into a personality. The contribution described on this Person row is limited to The district court held. Prosecutors charged. He was the defendant. Later benches share the child file. That limit is the alternative to treating office-holding as authorship of every later series. ## People - Lee Jae Myung: https://factrail.ai/people/lee-jae-myung ## Drivers - Institutional Corruption: https://factrail.ai/drivers/institutional-corruption - Judicial independence erosion (court capture): https://factrail.ai/drivers/justice-judicial-independence-erosion ## Sources - https://apnews.com/article/south-korea-martial-law-yoon-opposition-lee-de01220bcef905757b795ad73834df0c - https://www.scourt.go.kr/eng/main/Main.work ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/facts/kr-lee-election-law-2024