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| President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol / Yonhap |
Two reporters of an online news outlet were slapped with fines of 3 million won ($2,400) each Tuesday after being found guilty of entering a parking lot for President-elect Yoon Suk-yeol's apartment without permission in 2020 to interview him.
Lee Myeong-soo and Jeong Byeong-gon, reporters for the Voice of Seoul, broke into the parking lot of the apartment building in southern Seoul on five occasions in August 2020 when Yoon, as a prosecutor-general at the time, was in a feud with then Justice Minister Choo Mi-ae over prosecution reform.
The reporters lied to the security guard that they were visiting the apartment to meet a resident for a real estate purchase and approached Yoon but failed to interview him, according to court records. (Yonhap)
