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World Service,24 Dec 2021,49 mins

Former South Korean President released from jail

Newsday

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The disgraced former South Korean president, Park Geun-hye, has been pardoned four years into a twenty-two year prison sentence for corruption. She was the country's first democratically-elected leader to be forced from office. The world's largest telescope is being launched on Christmas day, we'll find out how this will revolutionise space exploration. And we'll hear from a man in the US who has invited an entire city to his Christmas lunch event.

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