Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo is surrounded by reporters at Incheon Worldwide Airport, Thursday, after he supplied to resign amid allegations that he acquired bribes from the Unification Church. Korea Instances photograph by Shim Hyun-chul
President Lee Jae Myung on Thursday accepted the resignation of Oceans Minister Chun Jae-soo, hours after Chun supplied to step down over allegations he acquired cash from the Unification Church.
Chun’s resignation was permitted, the presidential workplace stated in a press discover, making him the primary minister to go away the Cupboard since Lee took workplace in June.
Earlier within the day, Chun tendered his resignation amid allegations that he took bribes from the Unification Church, however strongly denied them as “utterly groundless.”
On Wednesday, Lee referred to as for a stern investigation into whether or not any politicians had been concerned in unlawful acts with non secular teams, apparently concentrating on these suspected of receiving illicit political funds from the Unification Church.
Chun has been named by a former Unification Church official as one among a number of ruling Democratic Get together of Korea (DPK)-affiliated individuals who took cash and different presents from the church in the course of the administration of former President Moon Jae-in.
Yun Younger-ho, former head of the church’s world headquarters, advised a particular counsel group in August that the church gave two luxurious watches and tens of thousands and thousands of gained to Chun between 2018 and 2020 whereas requesting his assist with the church’s venture to construct an undersea tunnel connecting Korea and Japan. Chun was a DPK lawmaker on the time.
Yun’s testimony solely surfaced just lately after he disclosed it at his trial final week, accusing the particular counsel group of conducting a biased investigation targeted solely on the church’s alleged ties to the principle opposition Individuals Energy Get together affiliated with former President Yoon Suk Yeol.
