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Controversy over the cost of clothing for the president's wife, Kim Jung-sook, is growing recently.

In the meantime, there was even a petition from the Blue House that she should disclose the price of the clothes she wore, and the Blue House countered that she had never spent any special activity expenses to buy clothes, and that she had paid all of it with her own money.



Reporter Kwon Ran will tell you about this.



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Suspicion has been raised that this leopard-shaped brooch worn by first lady Kim Jung-sook at an Indian movie viewing event in 2018 is a French high-priced brand product worth 200 million won.



Then, over the past 5 years, Kim's public appearances in her public appearance amount to a whopping 178 costumes, and suspicions that the source of her costume expenses are expenses for special activities of the Blue House have spread online.



A national petition to disclose the price of Kim's clothes has also appeared.



The opposition also joined.



[Jeong Mi-kyung/People's Power Supreme Councilor: (President Moon) promised the people that he would disclose all information transparently.]




The Blue House launched an official rebuttal today (29th).



"I never used special expenses to purchase clothes, and I paid for it with my own money."



Then he picked up each outfit and explained it.



[This is Hangeul.]



Chanel clothes with Hangeul engraved on them worn during the trip to France were loaned, and then Chanel donated them to the National Hangeul Museum.



He explained that he also returned the recycled plastic bottle hanbok he wore at the P4G Green Future Summit held in Seoul last year.



The controversial brooch said that the brand confirmed that it was not their product.



In the beginning, the controversy over the cost of Kim's clothes arose in 2018 when the Taxpayers Federation filed a cost disclosure lawsuit with the Seoul Administrative Court.



The court ordered the disclosure to the Blue House last month, but the Blue House was dissatisfied and appealed.



The Blue House said, "It is regrettable that reckless claims that are different from the facts are being made using the fact that it is difficult to disclose the specific expenses for diplomatic and security reasons."



(Video coverage: Joo Beom, Video editing: Wonhee Won, CG: Hongsik Kim)