Seoul ¨C Hidden camera footage appearing to show South Korea¡¯s First Lady accepting a Dior bag as a gift has plunged President Yoon Suk-yeol and his party into a controversy that may threaten their bid to reclaim a parliamentary majority in April¡¯s election.
Some members of Yoon¡¯s conservative People Power Party (PPP) have urged the president and his wife, Kim Keon-hee, to apologize for the incident dubbed by local media as the ¡°Dior bag scandal,¡± and admit receiving the purse was, at least, inappropriate, in the hope of putting the matter to rest.
Yoon¡¯s office said it had no information to share.
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