Gov't approves revised special counsel bills extending probes into ex-President Yoon
Published: 23 Sep. 2025, 11:30
![Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, center, presides over a Cabinet meeting at Government Complex Seoul in central Seoul on Sept. 23. [YONHAP]](https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2025/09/23/c20dcb33-08b1-4a6e-9214-dbe380788230.jpg)
Prime Minister Kim Min-seok, center, presides over a Cabinet meeting at Government Complex Seoul in central Seoul on Sept. 23. [YONHAP]
The government on Tuesday approved three revised bills extending special counsel investigations into corruption allegations surrounding former President Yoon Suk Yeol and his wife.
The bills were passed by the National Assembly earlier this month and approved during a Cabinet meeting led by Prime Minister Kim Min-seok. They will be sent to President Lee Jae Myung to be signed and promulgated.
The revisions call for allowing the extension of three special counsel investigations by up to 30 days, and increasing the number of assistant special counsels and other personnel on the investigation teams.
The three teams have been tasked, respectively, with investigating Yoon's failed imposition of martial law, various corruption allegations involving his wife, Kim Keon Hee, and the alleged cover-up of details related to a Marine's death in 2023.
Yonhap
with the Korea JoongAng Daily
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