The first lady and the Dior bag: the scandal shaking up South Korean politics

With a general election just months away, the party of president Yoon Suk Yeol is in crisis after his wife was accused of improperly accepting a designer handbag

It reads like a complex K-drama plot. South Korea’s first lady is secretly filmed as she’s presented with a lavish gift from a pastor who advocates for unification with North Korea. But this is no scripted narrative, rather a real political crisis that has plunged South Korea’s conservative government into disarray.

With elections for the country’s national assembly less than three months away, South Korean media is awash with accusations and recriminations – all of which stem from the alleged gift of a Dior handbag more than a year ago.

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