South Korea’s foreign ministry said Thursday it will soon initiate the process of confiscating the passport of the daughter of Choi Soon-sil, the long-time friend of President Park Geun-hye who faces charges for meddling in state affairs.
“The Ministry of Foreign Affairs plans to swiftly issue an order for the return of Chung Yoo-ra’s passport, and if it is not returned before a deadline, it will take steps to annul it,” ministry spokesman Cho June-hyuck said in a press briefing.
According to the ministry, a person subject to such an order usually has 14 days in which to return the passport, but, given the gravity of the situation, Chung must return hers within seven days.
The ministry will send its order as registered mail to Chung’s Korean address or to her legal representative. The order will take effect once the letter is received.
If the first order is returned undelivered, the ministry will mail a second. If that one is also sent back, then the ministry will post its confiscation order on its website.
Earlier in the week, the independent counsel investigating the influence-peddling scandal involving Choi and President Park secured a court warrant to arrest Choi’s only daughter, who is believed to be hiding out in Germany. [Yonhap]
“Chung is facing charges of gaining illicit admission to Ewha Woman’s University and favors from professors to earn credits.”
In Korean society, isn’t that basically on the level of driving 56 in a 55 MPH zone?
I get it – this girl is tied to the biggest political scandal in the history of the ROK and millions of people are rallying and calling for Park’s head.
But this is starting to take on the air of a witch hunt (yeah I know … her picture IS kind of scary looking). While I’m sure it’s all within the law to do what the authorities are doing – I just hope they start issuing arrest warrants for all Korean kids who have received “special assistance” with their college admission or who have received favoritism from a professor in the form of extra credits. If they do – the prosecutor’s office is gonna be really busy.
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Does anybody think that they might be overreacting just a bit?
But you are right that this has been a witch hunt by the Korean left for quite sometime the way they have been trotting out people to testify. Out of all of this the only real illegal activity I see proof of is the passing of classified information to Choi. The rest of it appears to be Choi acting as a lobbyist for various companies trying to get influence. It is shady influence peddling, but I haven’t seen the smoking gun yet on how much it influenced Park’s policies.
I would be surprised if they go very hard after Chung because I am sure there is a lot of well connected Korean left wing politicians getting special treatment for their kids as well. I think they just want to get her to testify and keep this scandal alive even longer until the election happens. Until then I believe they will attempt to get every person remotely connected to Park and Choi to testify.
I don’t think the Korean left is going to stop with their overreacting to this scandal until after the election and there is no need to keep this alive by trotting out every person remotely connected to Park and Choi.
“Chung is facing charges of gaining illicit admission to Ewha Woman’s University and favors from professors to earn credits.”
In Korean society, isn’t that basically on the level of driving 56 in a 55 MPH zone?
I get it – this girl is tied to the biggest political scandal in the history of the ROK and millions of people are rallying and calling for Park’s head.
But this is starting to take on the air of a witch hunt (yeah I know … her picture IS kind of scary looking). While I’m sure it’s all within the law to do what the authorities are doing – I just hope they start issuing arrest warrants for all Korean kids who have received “special assistance” with their college admission or who have received favoritism from a professor in the form of extra credits. If they do – the prosecutor’s office is gonna be really busy.
Does anybody think that they might be overreacting just a bit?
@Guitard, LOL a “witch hunt”. :chuckle:
But you are right that this has been a witch hunt by the Korean left for quite sometime the way they have been trotting out people to testify. Out of all of this the only real illegal activity I see proof of is the passing of classified information to Choi. The rest of it appears to be Choi acting as a lobbyist for various companies trying to get influence. It is shady influence peddling, but I haven’t seen the smoking gun yet on how much it influenced Park’s policies.
I would be surprised if they go very hard after Chung because I am sure there is a lot of well connected Korean left wing politicians getting special treatment for their kids as well. I think they just want to get her to testify and keep this scandal alive even longer until the election happens. Until then I believe they will attempt to get every person remotely connected to Park and Choi to testify.
I don’t think the Korean left is going to stop with their overreacting to this scandal until after the election and there is no need to keep this alive by trotting out every person remotely connected to Park and Choi.