SEOUL: A South Korean court posthumously exonerated a man executed more than 70 years ago for assisting rebel forces, saying he had been wrongly convicted.
Chang Hwan-bong, then 29, was among hundreds of people who were accused of helping left-leaning soldiers in an armed uprising against the government in the southwestern cities of Yeosu and Suncheon in October 1948. They were sentenced to death just 22 days after their arrest for rebellion and were executed immediately.
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