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, ‘\nThe ruling party and opposition parties adopted Yoon Seok-yeol’s wife Kim Geon-hee as a witness in the parliamentary audit regarding the plagiarism suspicions in her doctoral thesis, but they reported Kim Ji-yong, chairman of Kookmin University, and two others for non-attendance.’,
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, ‘\nDuring the parliamentary audit, opposition party members of the Education Committee presented a motion to individually prosecute Kim, the university chairman, Jang Yoon-geum, former president of Sookmyung Women’s University, and Sung Min-sin, a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Studies, in accordance with the Act on the Examination and Verification of Testimony and Evidence in the National Assembly.’,
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, “\nMembers of the ruling party, the People’s Power Party, opposed the motion by stating, ‘Chairman Kim provided a reason for non-attendance due to overseas business, Professor Sung provided a health-related reason for non-attendance, and President Jang was not even properly served with a request for attendance, so the requirements for prosecution were not met.’ They then temporarily walked out before the prosecution motion was deliberated.”,
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, ‘\nSubsequently, led by Kim Young-ho, the Education Committee chairman from the ruling party and opposition members unanimously processed the prosecution motion.’,
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, ‘\nThe opposition party claimed that Chairman Kim had refused to attend as a witness for three consecutive years from 2022 to this year, and that President Jang had defied requests not to travel abroad during the parliamentary audit period for a long time without even reporting to Sookmyung Women’s University.’,
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, ‘\nThey also said that the health-related reason Sung provided for non-attendance was merely to evade the parliamentary audit.’,
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, ‘\n(Photo=Yonhap News)\n’