Roh Who Protected Disgraced Ex-Professor Resigns

The “fake degree” scandal claimed its first Cheong Wa Dae casualty, with President Roh’s presidential secretary for policy planning resigning for allegedly peddling influence to protect disgraced former Dongguk University professor and Gwangju Biennale art director Shin Jeong-ah, with whom he reportedly enjoyed a, ahem, “close relationship.”

10 Comments

  1. mins0306 your flag
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 12:45 pm | Permalink

    There are reports that the two lived together.

    http://isplus.joins.com/enter/.....10401.html

    Wouldn’t be surprised if there was banging involved in the “close relationship.”

  2. Posted September 11, 2007 at 12:53 pm | Permalink

    Wouldn’t be surprised if there was banging involved in the “close relationship.”

    Well, I guess she had to be polishing somebody’s knob. Some newspaper will leak the actual emails soon enough, I suppose.

  3. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 2:04 pm | Permalink

    Is this guy married?

  4. mbk your flag
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 3:20 pm | Permalink

    Yes, married with 2 sons.

  5. globalvillageidiot your flag
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 4:13 pm | Permalink

    “Well, I guess she had to be polishing somebody’s knob.”

    I agree. That’s the only plausible scenario I can come up with as far as this “close relationship” is concerned.

  6. Hugh your flag
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 4:33 pm | Permalink

    Uh oh….the ‘polishing somebody’s knob’ idiom brought the advertisement for Phillipines dating to the top of the page again!

  7. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted September 11, 2007 at 7:44 pm | Permalink

    #4, funny how that doesn’t even seem to be an issue.

  8. Posted September 12, 2007 at 4:47 am | Permalink

    Even the Hankyoreh now got a “ChoJoongDong” like title,
    “Close relationship of Byeon & Shin, Online 0 m OFFline 800m (away)”.

    http://www.hani.co.kr/arti/soc.....35424.html

    What’s good about her risking his No.2 position within the Roh-ppa family? That would be my first question to Mr. Byeon.

  9. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted September 13, 2007 at 3:22 am | Permalink

    Well, a sports rag has suggested that she may be linked to other men in high places. I wonder if maybe it means that a smear campaign has begun to make it seem as if this is that case of a femme fatale seducing an aging politician instead of the case of an old married man who should know better than to have ‘close relationships’ with younger women.

  10. SomeguyinKorea your flag
    Posted September 13, 2007 at 3:23 am | Permalink

    Holly run-on sentence, Batman. That’s the last time I post without proofreading.

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