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Suspicion that Lee Sang-jik Lee, who had left the Democratic Party as the chairman of the Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation, had been on several suspicious overseas business trips arose.
It is suspicious that his son, who is an amateur golf player, went on a business trip abroad to match the competition.
For more details, reporter Jeong-Hyun Jung will deliver.
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amateur golf tournament held in Shanghai, China last September.
Behind the player who entered the tee box, you can see Rep. Lee Sang-jik, the chairman of the Small and Medium Venture Business Corporation at the time.
The player is Lee's son.
Lee, who was the chairman of the Medium Vacuum Industry, was on a public visit to China at the time.
From March 2018 to January of this year, during the 22 months he served as Chairman of the Medium Vacuum Industry, Lee Sang-Jik made 26 overseas business trips.
Among them, five trips to the US, one to China, and six overseas trips revealed that the duration of the golf tournament in which the son participated and the date of the legislator Lee's business trips overlapped or the locations overlapped.
In particular, his son participated in three US golf tournaments one month from mid-July last year, and Lee also went on business trips to the US three times in that month.
Jungjin Gong, a quasi-governmental agency, spent 7 million won in airfare and staying expenses for these six overseas business trips.
[Ryu Ho-jeong/Chairman Jeong Eui-dang: I use the national blood tax as a personal matter. If this is true, I think I should resign from the legislator.]
Rep. Lee Sang-jik, who left the Democratic Party on the 24th of last month due to controversy over responsibility for the mass dismissal of Eastar Jet.
Reporters contacted Congressman Lee several times to hear clarifications, but no contact was reached.
(Video coverage: Park Jin-ho, video editing: Park Jeong-sam, screen source: YouTube)