The Blue House on the 19th requested media outlets that ran articles about President Lee Jae-myung's so-called "organized crime ties" to publish follow-up correction notices, citing Article 17, Paragraph 1 of the Act on Press Arbitration and Remedies, etc. for Damage Caused by Press Reports.
Earlier, attorney Jang Young-ha, then the legal representative for Park Cheol-min, who was from the Seongnam International Mafia faction, claimed at an October 2021 press conference that, while serving as Seongnam mayor, the president received about 2 billion won in return for giving favors to the International Mafia faction.
ChosunBiz at the time reported by quoting Jang's claims and related remarks made by several politicians in response.
Jang was later indicted on charges of announcing false information under the Public Official Election Act, and on the 12th the Supreme Court finalized a guilty verdict of one year in prison, suspended for two years.
Accordingly, because it has been legally confirmed that the then-raised allegations of the president's ties to organized crime and bribery were not true, ChosunBiz reports this as a follow-up.