The Seoul Central District Court acquitted former President Yoon Suk Yeol on charges of abusing authority and harboring a criminal over a 2023 ambassador appointment. [1] The Korea Herald filed insufficient evidence of intent to obstruct a probe into a Marine's drowning. [1] Print this acquittal. Do not print the martial-law docket as gone.

Prosecutors had sought a five-year sentence on this file. Five other former officials were also acquitted in the same wrap. [1] A related-charges acquittal is not a blanket clearance. Print related charges. Leave other convictions to the pages that own them.

Friday recap that treats one bench as all cases closed is a feed, not the Herald. Print the acquittal as this case. Do not invent a restored presidency.

Acquittals on related charges leave the main event untouched; the martial-law docket is the trial that matters. Prosecutors losing the preliminary does not end the campaign. Friday clears one file among several.

Cleared files close; Friday closes one. Closing one is the update. Main events wait.

Main events wait; Friday clears one related file. The martial-law docket is the trial that matters. Do not invent a restored presidency.

The Seoul bench cleared a 2023 ambassador file, not martial law. The Herald's ground is insufficient evidence of intent. Five colleagues walked with him on that docket. One related win does not restore a presidency.
The Seoul bench cleared an ambassador file. Martial law is another docket. Do not invent a restored presidency.

The Seoul bench cleared an ambassador file. Martial law is another docket. Friday's acquittal is not a restored presidency.

-- DAVID CHEN, Beijing