Sojin Lim was born and raised in Seoul and hadn't long moved to England and a job teaching Korean studies at Lancashire University when news of the verdict came through.

On my group chat, I've got family group chat, my friends group chat, I've got the group chat from my previous colleagues, and it was all like bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing, bing [laughs].

It's not the 12 years prosecutors had been asking for, but it's still a custodial sentence.

My parent generation were so scared and worried with the fact the government had the gut to jail the Samsung chairman.

Some of them say, "At the moment, at Samsung, we don't have a strong leadership, and then who's gonna took it? You know, we're gonna see the decline of the stock market and everything, and it will be really hard for us to keep the economy, especially if Samsung collapses." My generation, they had, "Oh, this will bring the difference.

We don't expect that they will put Jay Y. Lee in jail forever, but at least the government took an action.

This is progress." So there was big debate there.

But when the newly installed dictator, who had been elevated from general to president in 1963, had offered him an ultimatum, let's just say the moment suddenly felt right.

President Park ordered Samsung to open the factory.

President Park was known to understand the importance of the agriculture sector development because he himself was from those rural places, and also the fertilizer was quite a significant thing to achieve the development.

Park Chung-hee had begun harnessing the power and money of chaebols to build a new modern South Korea.

Because everybody was so poor and most of the people lost their land, properties by the Japanese.

So around that time, at the rural places, you just exchange, for example, your rice with your clothes for something like that.

Jaeyeon Lee, who writes for South Korean newspaper Hankyoreh:

What's really special about that was she shared her everyday life there.

Not fancy stuff, just really relatable, down-to-earth stuff.

Her blog was titled Pretty Yoon-Hyung's Place.

Isn't, [laughs] isn't that cute? Like, it was just something that would come to the mind of your average 20-something next-door neighbor, right? And her posts were, you know, just full of cute little moments.

Like, she would write about her boyfriend.

She once wrote about trying to learn guitar from her boyfriend but said she was too lazy to make any progress.

They'd grown used to seeing chaebol leaders investigated, even put on trial, but not this.