Police Search Jung-gu Mayor Kim Gilsung's Office Over Alleged Violation of Public Official Election Act

Suspected of Providing Expensive Meals Worth Hundreds of Thousands of Won to Voters at a Five-Star Hotel
Police to Summon Mayor Kim After Analyzing Seized Materials to Investigate Details of the Meal Payments

Police have launched a full-scale investigation into allegations that Kim Gilsung, Mayor of Jung-gu District in Seoul, provided meals to voters in his constituency.

According to the police on the 29th, the Public Crime Investigation Division of the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency’s Major Crime Unit executed a search and seizure warrant at the Jung-gu District Office building in Yegwan-dong, Jung-gu, Seoul, on the afternoon of the same day. The warrant is based on suspicions of violating the Public Official Election Act.

Gilsung Kim, Mayor of Jung-gu District, Seoul. The Asia Business Daily DB

Mayor Kim is suspected of providing meals worth hundreds of thousands of won to voters at a five-star hotel restaurant in Seoul this past June. It is known that the cost of the meal was recorded as an expense under the pretext of a discussion meeting.

Article 113 of the Public Official Election Act stipulates that heads of local governments are prohibited from making donations to voters within their constituencies. The police plan to analyze the seized items and then summon Mayor Kim and others for questioning.

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