A Seoul court will likely review later this week whether to lift the travel ban on a Japanese reporter accused of defaming President Park Geun-hye, court officials said Wednesday.
Tatsuya Kato, former head of the Seoul bureau of Japan's Sankei Shimbun newspaper, is standing trial for defamation after reporting rumors in August that Park might have been with a man when a South Korean ferry sank off the southwest coast in April, killing more than 300 people.