Mr Park claimed the high-profile scandal surrounding a political broker who allegedly issued polls to give Mr Yoon – then a presidential candidate – an advantage over his rival may be a reason ...

urging President Yoon Suk Yeol to accept an independent counsel's probe into allegations involving his wife, Kim Keon Hee.

South Korea’s president on Thursday dismissed calls for independent investigations into allegations involving his wife and top officials, drawing quick, strong rebukes from his political rivals.

Under the bill, the opposition bloc would be granted the power to recommend special counsel candidates, and Yoon would pick one among them as the special counsel who would investigate his wife.

The main liberal opposition Democratic Party and five other minor parties proposed the bill to let the independent prosecutor look into the allegations that Yoon and Kim were implicated in illegal ...