Posted on 04/20/2015 8:57:01 PM PDT by Olog-hai
South Korea’s prime minister has offered to resign amid a bribery scandal just two months after he took up the country’s No. 2 post, officials said Tuesday, in the latest political crisis to hit President Park Geun-hye.
Lee Wan Koo has been at the center of a corruption scandal that flared after a businessman killed himself earlier this month, leaving a memo listing the names of eight high-profile figures he claimed to have bribed. Most of the eight men, including Lee, are considered as close associates of Park.
Businessman Sung Wan-jong told a local daily before his death he gave 30 million won ($27,390) to Lee in 2013. …
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An honest man, unlike the feckless fool on the hill.
wow, he killed himself AND he squealed
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