After more than a hundred days, Kim Gun-hee, the wife of the South Korean president, finally made her public appearance.
According to Global Network, South Korean President Yin Seok-yue recently held talks with visiting Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Manai at the Yongsan Presidential Palace. Yin Seok-yue's wife, Kim Jianxi, attended the reception luncheon after the talks. Yonhap News Agency stated that this was her first public appearance in 153 days. In response, a spokesman for the Democratic Party of Korea criticized that the place where Ms. Kim Kun-hee should go was not the leaders’ luncheon, but the prosecutor’s office.
According to Korean media reports in early May, South Korea’s Attorney General Lee Won-seok has issued instructions to the Seoul Central District Prosecutor’s Office, which is responsible for investigating the incident of Kim Jianxi receiving a brand-name bag, requesting the formation of a special investigation team to investigate.
Last month, Yin Xiyue held a press conference on the second anniversary of taking office, publicly responding to the incident of Kim Jianxi accepting a brand-name bag. Yin Xiyue said that because his wife's unwise way of handling things has worried the people, and that the prosecutors have begun investigating the incident, he said that expressing a position on this issue may cause misunderstandings about exerting influence, so he did not make another position and believed that the prosecutors Ability to conduct investigations fairly and rigorously.
was affected by this incident, and Yin Xiyue's approval rating fell below 30% in February this year. According to information, Yin Xiyue said in an interview that giving her the bag was a "political means" because the process was filmed by a camera hidden in the visitor's watch and was not made public until last year's election year.
On September 13, 2022, Kim Jianxi accepted a Dior bag worth about 3 million won (approximately RMB 16,000) as a bribe from Choi Jae-young, a Korean pastor in the United States.
The controversy surrounding Kim Gun-hee has been ongoing. She was previously exposed for falsifying her academic qualifications, manipulating stock prices, and threatening reporters...
Some people say that the biggest scandal against South Korean President Yoon Seok-hyue is his wife Kim Gun-hee. Will Yoon Seok-hyue, who wants to break the "Cheong Wa Dae curse" and move his office to the Ministry of National Defense building, break up with Kim Gun-hee?
In addition, Yin Xiyue’s mother-in-law was recently granted parole and released from prison two months early. Previously, she was jailed in July last year after serving a one-year sentence for forging bank deposit certificates. The arrest of the mother-in-law of the current president is the first time in South Korea's constitutional history.
Recently, a public opinion poll released by Korean media showed that only 26.7% of people gave a positive evaluation of Yin Xiyue's political achievements, while 69.6% gave a negative evaluation. When people were asked about their expectations for the remaining three years of the Yin Xiyue government's term, a whopping 49.4% chose "it will be worse than the past two years."
Reporter: Wang Letao Editor: Sun Feifei Proofreader: Tang Qi
