{"id":62927,"date":"2024-03-29T16:30:58","date_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/29\/south-koreas-ambassador-to-australia-resigns-after-four-weeks-amid-corruption-probe"},"modified":"2024-03-29T16:30:58","modified_gmt":"2024-03-29T07:30:58","slug":"south-koreas-ambassador-to-australia-resigns-after-four-weeks-amid-corruption-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62927","title":{"rendered":"South Korea\u2019s ambassador to Australia resigns after four weeks amid corruption probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Jong-sup is being investigated over allegations he tried to improperly influence an inquiry into death of marine while he was defence minister<\/p>\n<p>South Korea\u2019s ambassador to Australia resigned on Friday as questions about his appointment while he is under a corruption investigation battered President Yoon Suk Yeol\u2019s ruling party less than two weeks from a closely fought parliamentary election.<\/p>\n<p>Lee Jong-sup, who was appointed ambassador to Australia just four weeks ago, is being investigated over allegations he tried to improperly influence a probe into the death of a marine last year while he was defence minister.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/mar\/29\/south-koreas-ambassador-to-australia-resigns-after-four-weeks-amid-corruption-probe\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee Jong-sup is being investigated over allegations he tried to improperly influence an inquiry into death of marine while he was defence ministerSouth Korea\u2019s ambassador to Australia resigned on Friday as questions about his appointment while he is un&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,43,324,222],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-australia-news","category-australian-politics","category-south-korea"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62927"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62928,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62927\/revisions\/62928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}