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S. Korea: Park admits ties to mystery woman

音声ダウンロード

South Korean President Park Geun-hye offered a surprise pub-lic apology Oct. 25 and admitted that she had close ties to a myste-rious woman at the center of a corruption scandal.

A day earlier, the South Korean TV network JTBC had reported that the woman, Choi Soon-sil, was informally involved in editing some of Park's key speeches.

For weeks, media have specu-lated that Choi used her connec-tions to Park to push companies to make tens of millions of dollars in contributions to establish two nonprofit foundations. (AP)

韓国の朴大統領、「謎の女性」に公的文書漏えいを謝罪

民間人の女性に演説の原稿を添削させていたなどと報じられた韓国の朴槿恵大統領は10月25日、公的文書を漏えいしていたことを認め、謝罪した。

The Japan Times ST: November 4, 2016