Senior Lee aide offers to quit over S. Korea scandal
- Published: 11/02/2012 at 12:32 AM
- Online news: Asia
A senior aide to South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak offered to resign Friday amid allegations of involvement in a bribery scandal which has rocked the ruling party in an election year.
South Korean President Lee Myung-bak speaks on February 9. A senior aide to Lee offered to resign Friday amid allegations of involvement in a bribery scandal which has rocked the ruling party in an election year.
The offer by senior political affairs secretary Kim Hyo-Jae came one day after parliament Speaker Park Hee-Tae stepped down over the affair, which is being investigated by prosecutors.
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