Ex-President Yoon appears before special counsel team over his wife's bribery charges

Former President Yoon Suk Yeol appeared before a special counsel team Saturday to undergo questioning as a suspect over corruption allegations linked to his wife, Kim Keon Hee. It marked the jailed former president's first appearance before special counsel Min Joong-ki's team, which launched in July to investigate corruption and other allegations surrounding the ex-first lady. Yoon is accused of being an accomplice to his wife when she allegedly received opinion polls worth 270 million won ($183,000) for free from a self-proclaimed power broker and when she allegedly accepted a painting worth 140 million won from a former prosecutor. He is also suspected of violating the Public Official Election Act for allegedly speaking a falsehood about his wife during a 2021 debate when he was a presidential candidate. Min's team is also looking into whether Yoon was involved in Kim's alleged acceptance of luxury gifts from others, including Lee Bae-yong, former head of the National Education Commission, in exchange for favors. When asked by reporters about whether Yoon was aware of Kim's acceptance o