South Korea’s Kim Keon-hee ignores Yoon in frosty courtroom reunion

For the first time in nine months, former South Korean president Yoon Suk-yeol finally saw his wife again on Tuesday. He was the defendant. She was the witness. She barely looked at him.The reunion, their first since his arrest following a failed martial law declaration that ended his presidency, lasted all of 30 minutes. The couple made eye contact only once.Yoon looked visibly thinner, his face gaunt and marked with age spots, his once-dark hair now almost entirely silver.Kim Keon-hee wore her usual court uniform – black suit, white shirt, hair in a greying ponytail – and removed her face mask only to speak.Kim Keon-hee, wearing a face mask, talks with her lawyer at the Seoul Central District Court in December. Photo: Yonhap/EPAThe former first lady, who was herself convicted in January on corruption charges, tersely confirmed her relationship to Yoon as he, seated at the defendant’s table in a suit bearing an inmate number tag, watched her intently.