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South Korea Speaker quits over bribe scandal
South Korea’s parliamentary Speaker resigned on Thursday over a bribery scandal which has tarnished the conservative ruling party in a key election year. Park Hee-Tae was alleged to have offered cash envelopes to lawmakers of the Grand National Party before a vote, which he won, to select a new party chief in 2008. Park, who became Speaker in 2010, said in a brief resignation statement he was “really sorry” for the scandal but did not acknowledge personal wrongdoing
South Korea’s parliamentary Speaker resigned on Thursday over a bribery scandal which has tarnished the conservative ruling party in a key election year. Park Hee-Tae was alleged to have offered cash envelopes to lawmakers of the Grand National Party before a vote, which he won, to select a new party chief in 2008. Park, who became Speaker in 2010, said in a brief resignation statement he was “really sorry” for the scandal but did not acknowledge personal wrongdoing
