D) Corruption concerning Yang Gil-seung
Yang Gil-seung, who was the Chief of Personal Secretary Office
for the President, was arrested in June of 2003 for allegedly having
requested to suspend the investigation in return for a lavish entertainment at the expense of Lee Won-ho, who was then under investigation for an alleged tax evasion.
4) Public remarks as to the retirement from politics
The respondent publically made remarks at the party representative meeting at Cheong Wa Dae on December 14, 2003 that the respondent would retire from politics should the amount of illegal political
funds on the part of the respondent exceed one-tenth of that of the
Grand National Party. The respondent, however, ignored such public
promise of political retirement although the result of the public prosecutors office's investigation indicates that the amount reached oneseventh as of March 8, 2004. The respondent thereby violated Article
69 of the Constitution, Article 63 of the State Public Officials Act, and
Article 30 of the Fund Act.
(C) Disruption of the National Administration
The respondent violated Articles 10 and 69 of the Constitution
in disrupting the public and drowning the economy into a rupture,
notwithstanding his constitutionally mandated obligation as the head
of the state and the ultimately responsible party of the national administration to sincerely endeavor to protect the public's right to pursue
happiness and to increase the public welfare by uniting the public and
consolidating the whole capacity for the nation's development and
economic growth, by failing to maintain integrity in the policy goals
between growth and distribution, by increasing uncertainty at the
industry from oscillating without clear policy directions regarding the
right-obligation relationship of the labor and the management, by exacerbating economic instability from causing confusion and theoretical
enmity among the policy administrators, by having unfaithfully performed his office in, for example, pouring all his authority and effort
in for a particular political party's victory at the general election,
and by irresponsibly and recklessly administering the national affairs
in, for example, making a remark that "the presidency is too damn much
trouble to do," proposing a confidence vote, and declaring his retirement from politics.
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