South Korean prosecutors raided the former party headquarters of impeached former president Yoon Suk Yeol on Wednesday, August 13, a day after arresting his wife, Kim Keon Hee, on charges of corruption,

South Korea’s former first lady Kim Keon Hee was arrested late on Tuesday over a range of charges including stock manipulation and corruption, prosecutors said. The arrest came hours after the Seoul Central District Court reviewed the prosecutors’ arrest warrant request against the 52-year-old,

The wife of South Korea’s jailed former President Yoon Suk Yeol has been arrested as investigators seek to charge her over various suspected crimes, including bribery, stock manipulation and meddling in the selection of a candidate.

If the arrest warrant is granted, it will be the first time in South Korea that a former president and first lady were both arrested.

SEOUL (Reuters) -South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee apologised on Wednesday as she appeared for questioning by investigators on a string of corruption charges that plagued her husband's term before it ended abruptly, calling herself "a nobody."

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee will spend her first day in jail on Wednesday in a cell much like the one her husband and ex-President Yoon Suk Yeol occupies as prosecutors pursue the once high-flying couple in a widening criminal probe.

STORY: South Korea's former first lady, Kim Keon Hee was arrested after a court issued a warrant just before midnight Tuesday.She faces accusations of corruption, which she denies, according to the special prosecutor leading the investigation.

Kim Keon Hee, the former First Lady of South Korea, has begun her career as a lecturer after her husband, Yoon Suk Yeol, was elected as the new president of South Korea.

South Korea's former first lady Kim Keon Hee has been arrested after a court late on Tuesday issued a warrant to arrest her following accusations of graft that she denies, a special prosecutor leading a wide-reaching probe said.

Kim Keon Hee, accused of accepting Chanel bags and other items as bribes, is the only former first lady in the country to have been put behind bars. Her husband has also been jailed on insurrection charges.