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Lee Jun-seok, chief of staff of People's Power Representative Lee Jun-seok, resigned today (30th) ahead of deliberation by the Party Ethics Committee.

The retired chief of staff is considered to be a close person to President Yoon Seok-yeol, and there have been various interpretations and rebuttals about his resignation.



Correspondent Kang Cheong-wan.



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Rep. Park Seong-min, who served as the chief of staff of the People's Power Party, sent a text message to reporters announcing that he would resign from the post of chief of staff.



It has been only three months since I assumed the post of chief of staff at the request of President Yoon Seok-yeol right after the last presidential election.



Although the proviso was attached as 'a personal reason', it was interpreted that it has nothing to do with the recent internal conflict situation surrounding Chairman Lee.



As Rep. Park is classified as a pro-Yun-seok-yeol family, it is likely that President Yoon's uncomfortable intentions toward Lee were reflected.



A key official in the presidential office denied that there was no prior communication and that there was no conflict with President Lee, but President Lee did not specifically deny it.



[Lee Jun-seok/President of People's Power: (I wonder if Yun-shim (President Yoon Seok-yeol's heart) has left....) Such an interpretation is possible, but there was no such content in the conversation with Rep. Park Seong-min yesterday.



] You just have to run in a direction you can't,' he wrote.



It means that they will break through their checks, which are interpreted as pro-yun, with 'reform', but they drew a line against the voluntary resignation.



[Lee Jun-seok/President of the People's Power: The way to break through is to spur reform as we did around this time last year.]



Even outside the party, the pressure surrounding Representative Lee is getting stronger.



A businessman who claimed to have made sexual payments to CEO Lee received a police investigation today (30th) at a detention center where he was sentenced to 9 years in prison for fraud and was imprisoned.



(Video coverage: Cho Chun-dong, Kim Nam-seong, video editing: Lee Seung-jin)