[dmix]

Being Chaebol doesn't stop them from getting arrested fortunately:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/forbesasia/2014/04/30/obsessed-w...

https://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/20/business/international/so...

[simonh]

They get arrested and even convicted, but then almost immediately pardoned. Only in very few cases do the convictions and sentences actually stand. Mostly they just go back to business.