SEOUL—South Korean prosecutors indicted former President Park Geun-hye on 18 charges including bribery and coercion, taking aim at the central figure in a corruption scandal that has led to more than 30 indictments of high-profile government and business figures, including Samsung Group’s de facto leader, Lee Jae-yong. On Monday, South Korean prosecutors also indicted Shin Dong-bin, the chairman of Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-largest chaebol (conglomerate), on bribery charges. Mr. Shin is the second conglomerate head...

Source: Wall Street Journal April 17, 2017 08:43 UTC