President Yoon Suk Yeol apologized to the public for his wife Kim Keon Hee’s acceptance of a Christian Dior bag from a pastor in 2022, during a press conference to commemorate the second anniversary of his presidency, Thursday. This was the first time he publicly apologized for the issue, as he had previously expressed regret rather than offering a formal apology. However, the president objected the opposition's push to launch a special counsel probe on the issue and a separate allegation about Kim's involvement in a stock manipulation scandal, describing it as "political maneuvering to conceal the truth." It was ... (full story)