President Moon Jae-in granted pardons to 6,444 people Friday, including an ex-liberal lawmaker, evictees involved in the deadly Yongsan disaster and migrant workers, which the presidential office said aims to help ordinary people without money or power and foster unity... [but]Han Sang-gyun, chief of the Korean Confederation of Trade Unions who was convicted of leading illegal rallies, was not pardoned. Han is serving a three-year prison term for leading anti-government rallies in protest against ousted President Park Geun-hye’s labor policies in 2015...(source: Korea Herald, 12.29)

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