SEOUL: Two plastic surgeons who treated ousted South Korean president Park Geun-Hye—including one who injected her with human placenta extracts—and three other people were convicted Thursday in connection with the scandal that brought her down.

The guilty verdicts are the first in the wide-ranging scandal that embroiled the country for months and culminated in Park’s dismissal.

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