{"id":50128,"date":"2024-03-29T17:44:46","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:44:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abnews.com.au\/?p=50128"},"modified":"2024-03-29T17:44:46","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:44:46","slug":"s-koreas-australia-envoy-resigns-amid-pre-election-controversy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/?p=50128","title":{"rendered":"S. Korea&#8217;s Australia envoy resigns amid pre-election controversy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>South Korea&#8217;s ambassador to Australia has resigned, Seoul&#8217;s foreign ministry said Friday, after his appointment while under investigation by corruption authorities triggered public outcry just weeks before a general election.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before being named to the post, Lee Jong-sup had been banned from traveling while South Korea&#8217;s Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) probed allegations he interfered with an enquiry into the death of a marine last year, while he was the country&#8217;s defence minister.<\/p>\n<p>Seoul&#8217;s foreign ministry told AFP Friday it had &#8220;decided to accept his resignation&#8221;, without giving further details.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year-old marine died after being swept away while doing relief work during major flooding, with some reports saying he was never given a life jacket by authorities.<\/p>\n<p>The CIO is looking into whether Lee, as defence chief, interfered with the probe into the marine&#8217;s death. He has denied any wrongdoing and vowed to cooperate.<\/p>\n<p>Lee was appointed ambassador to Australia by President Yoon Suk Yeol and left for Canberra on March 10, triggering public outcry.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to Seoul last week, officially to attend defence meetings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>South Korea&#8217;s ambassador to Australia has resigned, Seoul&#8217;s foreign ministry said Friday, after his appointment while under investigation by corruption authorities triggered public outcry just weeks before a general election. Before being named to the post, Lee Jong-sup had been banned from traveling while South Korea&#8217;s Corruption Investigation Office (CIO) probed allegations he interfered with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50129,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[970],"class_list":["post-50128","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-english","tag-s-koreas-australia-envoy-resigns-amid-pre-election-controversy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50128"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50128\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50128"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50128"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/aglowmedia.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50128"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}