South Korea's Prime Minister Lee Wan Koo Steps Down Over Bribery Scandal

 

Prime Minster Lee Wan Koo offered to resign last week, just two months after taking the country's No. 2 post. He has been at the heart of a corruption scandal involving a dead businessman and other high-profile figures, mostly close associates of President Park Geun-hye

The scandal is a blow to Park's government, which is still reeling from lingering public criticism of its handling of a ferry disaster last year that killed more than 300 people. Violence occurred during a Seoul rally earlier this month by relatives of the ferry victims and their supporters, leaving dozens of people injured.

Businessman Sung Wan-jong said before committing suicide this month that he gave 30 million won ($27,390) to Lee in 2013.

South Korea's president  Park Geun-hye accepted the resignation of her prime minister on Monday April 27,2015 over a bribery scandal