What’s all the fuss about South Korea’s First Lady?

Controversial figure: First Lady Kim stepping out of the presidential jet with husband President Yoon Suk-yeol after attending the Nato summit in Madrid in June. — Agencies

STOCK price manipulation, luxury items omitted from personal assets disclosure, inviting a police officer involved in an ongoing investigation to an official event, allegations of plagiarism and calls for further investigations, falsification of credentials, suspicious developments in hiring at and construction contracts for government facilities.

These are just some of the allegations raised in the past few months against South Korean First Lady Kim Keon-hee that have prompted the main opposition Democratic Party of Korea to call for the “Kim Keon-hee Prevention Act”.