A Seoul court on Wednesday rejected a request by prosecutors to arrest a former secretary to South Korea's ousted leader Park Geun Hye in connection with a corruption scandal that ended her presidency.A judge at the Seoul Central District Court said in a statement carried by Yonhap News Agency that it is "difficult" to see the need to arrest Woo Byung Woo, senior presidential secretary for civil affairs from 2015 to 2016."The allegations raised against him are debatable," according to the statement.The prosecutors sought an arrest warrant for Woo on Sunday after questioning him last week.Wo…READ FULL ARTICLE
