South Korea's ambassador to Vietnam,Kim Do-hyun, has been dismissed for a breach of anti-graftlegislation and other irregularities, an informed source here said Thursday.
When Kim and his family attended an opening ceremony of a golfcourse in Vietnam last October, they reportedly received fundingfor a hotel stay and airline tickets.
The strict "Kim Young-ranAct" took effect in South Korea in 2016 as part of the country'sefforts to wipe out corruption among civil servants and others whowork in the public sector.
(Yonhap)
Kim is also accused of treating embassy officials in anarrogant and authoritarian manner, a practice called "gapjil" in Korean.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent the case to the CentralDisciplinary Committee, suggesting a heavy punishment.
The panel decided to fire Kim in a meeting late last month andrecently notified him of the decision, according to the source.
Kim, 53, was appointed to the ambassadorial post in April lastyear after serving as a Samsung Electronics Co. executiveresponsible for smartphone sales in Europe. He served at theministry from 1993 to 2012.
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