Democratic Party, "Suspicion about Kim Gun-hee’s involvement in personnel affairs must be clarified"

The Democratic Party of Korea said on November 30 that it is “the duty of the presidential office to answer the people's questions" amid the continued silence of the presidential office over allegations that Kim Gun-hee, the spouse of President Yoon Suk-yeol, received a luxury bag as a gift. "It should also answer whether Kim is involved in the personnel management of the Financial Services Commission," the party urged.

"It is outrageous that the presidential office is not only using a YouTube channel but even the rumor of North Korea’s involvement as excuses for not answering the questions about Kim’s alleged violation of the Improper Solicitation and Graft Act ," Park Sung-joon, spokesperson for the Democratic Party, said in a briefing.

“The presidential office cannot gloss over the ongoing suspicion about Kim’s acceptance of a luxury bag by making absurd excuses,” Park added. "If Pastor Choi (Jae-young) is such a problematic person to the point of mentioning North Korea’s intervention, it only deepens the suspicion of why Kim met with him and why she let him prepare a luxury bag as a gift.”

He also argued that "The presidential office should answer whether Kim is directly involved in the personnel affair of the Financial Services Commission as shown in the video.”

On November 27, "The Voice of Seoul" uploaded a video on its YouTube channel showing Kim appeared to receive a luxury Dior bag worth 3 million won from Pastor Choi, who is known to be a US citizen, at the office of Covana Content in Acrovista in Seocho-dong, Seoul, on September 13 last year.

The presidential office has not made any official comment on the video until the fourth day after it was released. The office apparently takes up the position that it does not need to respond to the one-sided claims of the YouTube channel.

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