It was confirmed that the family of Mr. A, the spouse of Lee Won-mo, a personnel secretary in the presidential office, who accompanied President Yoon Seok-yeol and his wife on their visit to Spain last week, paid 20 million won in political support during the presidential campaign.
According to the ‘List of donors exceeding 3 million won annually by the Central Party Supporters Association participating in the 20th presidential election,’ Mr. A and Mr. A’s mother donated 10 million won each to President Yoon.
The donation date for donations is July 26, last year. This is the day on which President Yoon started collecting donations as a presidential candidate at the time. President Yun joined the people’s power four days following that. At that time, fundraising was allowed up to 2.565.45 million won, which is 5% of the limited amount of election expenses (51.39 billion won).
A is the daughter of the chairman of a famous oriental medicine medical foundation, and it is reported that she resigned as a registered director on April 30 following serving as a representative of a company related to oriental medicine.
Person A, who accompanied President Yoon Seok-yeol’s first overseas business trip as an entourage, was found to have departed for Spain as a member of the advance squad. When he returned to Korea, he boarded the presidential plane, Unit 1, and it was reported that he was also seated at the Madrid dormitory where the president and his wife stayed. In response, the opposition party raised suspicions of intervening in state affairs by a non-elephant power following the Park Geun-hye administration.
Reporter Kim Soo-hyun at Hankyung.com ksoohyun@hankyung.com
