Tag: Kim Sung-tae

Lawmakers of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, including its floor leader Kim Sung-tae (5th from L), visit the Supreme Prosecutors’ Office in Seoul on Sept. 28, 2018, to protest prosecutors’ investigation into allegations that aides of its lawmaker Shim Jae-chul (4th from L) accessed digital files on fiscal budgets and other confidential data without authorization. The party denounced the investigation as a “grave suppression” of an opposition party and accused the government of trying to block people’s right to know. (Yonhap)

Kim Sung-tae, floor leader of the main opposition Liberty Korea Party, is attacked in the face in front of the National Assembly in Seoul on May 5, 2018, in this photo captured from cable channel MBN. The attacker hit Kim in the chin as he was walking up the stairs and later told the police he was angry at the opposition party for causing a parliamentary stalemate. Kim has been on a hunger strike from May 3, demanding an independent counsel probe into an online opinion rigging scandal implicating a ruling party legislator. (Yonhap)