Turning Detective

With the world in economic turmoil and what seems like a never ending news production of scandal and dishonesty it seems political scandal is not restricted to the UK.

In Korea it seems even the lawmakers themselves are not adverse to committing a little corruption whilst others find themselves pretty proficient private investigators and this was relevant when Park Jie-won of the main opposition Democratic Party played a truly dramatic role in forcing out Chun Sung-kwan, a nominee for the very high profile position of prosecutor-general.

Park made some amazing allegations that Chun and his spouse, along with another person he called Chun's sponsor, enjoyed luxury leisure trips to Japan together in 2004 and again in 2008 and although Chun denied the claim later media investigations actually found that what Park had claimed at the hearing was infect true. It was also found that during the lavish trips expensive brand items were also purchased by Chun's wife. As a subsequent result President Lee Myung-bak withdrew his designation because Chun had given false and mis-leading testimony during the hearing.

Although the it was claimed that outside sources had been involved in uncovering the information it was later reported by aids of Park that he had infect done all the private investigation work himself.

It seems that misuse of expenses isn't just restricted to the UK.

In a separate matter, recently appointed prime minister Chung Un-chan was also reported to be amazed that private investigators had been searching for evidence of illicit activities about him and his family. Chung was under investigation for evasion of tax because his wife, an amateur artist had earned 61m won through selling three pieces of her work, but didn't report the income to the authorities.