Corruption in South Korea

South Korean President Park Geun-hye accepted on Monday the resignation of Prime Minister Lee Wan-koo, who had been accused of bribery.

Lee Wan-koo, who had been in office for slightly over two months, became the shortest serving prime minister of South Korea since the country became democratic in the late 1980s.

South Korean President Park Geun-Hye on April 27 accepted the resignation of her prime minister over a widening bribery scandal that has tainted senior members of her faltering administration.

South Korea's prime minister has offered to resign amid a bribery scandal just two months after he took up the country's No. 2 post, officials said April 21, in the latest political crisis to hit President Park Geun-hye.