A senior Korean diplomat in Auckland has been called home for allegedly engaging in a scuffle with a fellow Korean official posted in New Zealand, a Seoul official said Thursday.
The alleged brawl between the consul general in Auckland and the Korean education ministry official erupted on June 14 over budget uses for the Korean education center in New Zealand, the foreign ministry official said.
"We summoned the consul general after being tipped off about the dispute and an internal probe is underway," the official said on the condition of anonymity.
The education ministry official is in charge of the Korean education center, the foreign ministry official said.
The foreign ministry has sent a team of investigators to the Korean consular office in Auckland, where the scuffle broke out, who will check CCTV footage of the dispute, he said.
"Based on the probe results, the ministry will take the relevant measures," the official said.
The foreign ministry has declared a zero-tolerance policy on lapses in discipline among diplomats since a former foreign minister Yu Myung-hwan resigned in 2010 over accusations of nepotism involving his daughter. (Yonhap)
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