The state human rights watchdog said Monday it has decided to file a complaint against a special prosecutor team member over allegations of abuse of power in connection with the death of a county official in Yangpyeong.
The lawyer for a county official who died after questioning by the special counsel investigating former first lady Kim Keon Hee said Tuesday that he will file a complaint against special counsel investigators for abuse of power and other charges.
Comedian Lee Jin-ho, currently under investigation for illegal gambling, is being questioned by police on suspicion of drunk driving, according to police on Wednesday.
A drunk driver speeding down the highway in a Maserati at 170 kilometers per hour (106 mile per hour) was brought to a halt thanks to the quick thinking of a truck driver, leading to the suspect’s arrest by police.
The minister is currently not a political fighter, but a public servant.
“Have we all not heard of the ‘Kim Keon-hee road’ by now?” DP leader Lee Jae-myeong said. Yangpyeong County residents launched a campaign Monday demanding that the government go ahead with the highway project and politicians to stop politicizing.
Political circles must stop partisan calculations immediately and the government must come up with the best possible construction plan.
Residents in Yangpyeong County are embarrassed after Land Minister Won Hee-ryong abruptly announced the scrapping of plans to build a highway between Seoul and the county.
The presidential office said Sunday that the controversy over the cancellation of the highway project connecting Seoul with Yangpyeong in Gyeonggi is "an issue that the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure and Transport should take care of."
"A national project which has already been discussed for several years and to which large amounts of investments were made, is not something that a minister can immediately announce he is scrapping,” Lee Jae-myung said.
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