Yoon Suk-yeol, presidential nominee of the main opposition People Power Party, walks past reporters Thursday without answering their questions regarding the controversy surrounding his wife Kim Keon-hee. (Joint Press Corps) Controversies surrounding the families of the two leading presidential candidates are emerging one after another, threatening to overshadow the election itself — and fanning questions about their moral aptness for the job.
Former Prosecutor General Yoon Suk-yeol, the presidential nominee for the main opposition People Power Party, has been swept in fierce criticism over his wife allegedly falsifying her credentials when applying for a teaching job in 2007.
Outside her office Wednesday, she offered an apology of sorts to a Yonhap News Agency reporter for exaggerating and falsifying her credentials when successfully applying for a teaching position at Suwon Women’s University in 2007.
“Regardless of the facts, I apologize for the discomfort and fatigue the people may feel,” she told the Yonhap reporter, a day after the news first broke in an interview she did with YTN released a day earlier.
In the application form obtained by YTN, Kim wrote that she served as a director for the Korea Association of Game Industry for three years beginning in March 2002. The association was officially established in June 2004.
She is also accused of falsely claiming that she won the grand prize at the Seoul International Cartoon & Animation Festival in 2004 on the application. Kim said in the YTN interview she sought to have her application “stand out” from those submitted by others.
Kim’s stance shown Wednesday comes more apologetic and regretful of her actions than she was a day earlier, which is when she questioned how her action could be problematic, as “I didn’t even write down these accomplishments to advance to schools or anything.”
She then emphasized she was not serving in an official role nor was she married to Yoon at the time, adding she doesn’t understand “why I have to undergo such verification.” Kim, head of cultural firm Covana Contents, married Yoon in 2012.
Yoon deemed his wife’s comments appropriate, as it would be right to apologize to the people “even if the […]
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