Yoon Chang-jung (Korean: 윤창중, Hanja: 尹昶重, born 17 July 1956) is a South Korean journalist and official. He briefly served as the press spokesman for Korean president

Park Geun-hye Park Geun-hye (; ; often in English ; born 2 February 1952) is a South Korean politician who served as the 11th president of South Korea from 2013 to 2017, until she was impeached and convicted on related corruption charges. Park was the fi ...

in early 2013, and was fired following a

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on a

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female intern at the South Korean Embassy in the U.S. in May 2013. This event is said to "have overshadowed President Park's first visit to the US". Yoon is a 1982

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alumni who joined the Park election team in 2012. becoming the

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spokesman on 24 February 2013. He has been described as a "conservative columnist... disliked by many progressives".

Sex scandal incident

South Korean President

visited the United States between 5 and 9 May, with Yoon accompanying Park as her chief spokesman. The sexual assault, or

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in question, consisted of

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the intern, and later calling her up to his room and answering the door either naked or in underwear (sources vary); those events occurred on May 7. On May 8, 2013, the intern reported those events to the American police. Yoon escaped to

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after the alleged assault. Kwak Sang-do, Senior Secretary to the President for Civil Affairs, said the order for Yoon to return “didn’t conflict with any South Korean or US laws,” and that "Yoon’s return from the US was a policy decision by the Blue House, and because he was only under indictment, it was not a criminal flight from

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for him to return to South Korea." Yoon apologized for his actions on 11 May 2013. On 12 May 2013, Present

fired spokesman Yoon Chang-jung in the middle of her trip to the United States after he was accused of

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a Korean American female intern from the

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Embassy of South Korea. President Park and her office have apologized for Yoon actions on Monday. 23 women lawmakers of the

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in South Korea condemned Yoon for having returned to South Korea in a rush to avoid a U.S. police investigation into his alleged sexual assault and criticized the

for trying to cover up the scandal. The Democratic Party has demanded the resignation of a number of Blue House officials. It has also called for a more thorough investigation. Due to those allegations and demands, Ms. Park’s senior presidential press secretary and Mr. Yoon’s immediate supervisor,

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, who is said to have encouraged Yoon to return to South Korea as soon as possible to avoid being arrested by U.S. law enforcement, declared that he is willing to resign. On May 10, the

stated that the Washington scandal was a “foreseeable tragedy” because of Park’s refusal to heed her critics.

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Yoon, Chang-jung 1956 births Living people South Korean journalists Korea University alumni People from South Chungcheong Province