S Korea's first female PM jailed for graft

South Korea's first female prime minister was headed for jail yesterday after the Supreme Court upheld a conviction and two-year prison sentence for accepting illicit political funds. Now 71, Han Myeong-Sook served one year as prime minister from April 2006 under the administration of then-president Roh Moo-Hyun. In 2010, she was tried on charges of receiving 880 million won ($760,000) from a businessman in illegal campaign funding for her eventually unsuccessful 2007 bid to secure her party's presidential nomination.