The first Korean lady Kim Keon-hee once said she would silently support her husband, but repeatedly controversy seemed to make her stand out more than the president.
I believe that the most important job as a wife is to create an environment for her husband to wholeheartedly handle state issues, Ms. Kim in March told Korea
In order for the elected president to focus on national issues, I will quietly support him, she added.
Kim Keon-Hee spoke at the Party's headquarters in western Seoul in December 2021.
When Mr. Yoon campaigned, Ms. Kim really appeared in public.
According to Korea Times, unlike the predecessors who always tried to be the background for her husband, Ms. Kim stands out that it overshadows the image of President Yoon.
Kim's flashy and charm in fashion is attracting mixed opinions in Korea.
In another survey conducted in June, a month after Mr. Yoon took office, 60% of the respondents said that Kim should keep in moderation in the way of dressing.
But the style of dress is not the only controversial score of the First Lady of Korea.
In December last year, the Korean People's Economic Research Institute and many other civilian groups filed a complaint with Ms. Kim who had acts of fake learning and career documents in the job applications for great schools.
Ms. Kim later held a public apology press conference for the information she described as exaggerated in the application for jobs in Suwon University in 2007 and Anyang University in 2013, and expressed regret for creating it.
In the middle of last month, the first lady Kim Keon-hee continued to make the public stir with the visit to the late Korean President Roh Moo-hyun.
Two others used to be employees of Covana Contents, an art exhibition company founded by her, and was recruited by the Korean President's Office.
The opposition Democratic Party of Korea criticized the decision of the first lady Kim when choosing a group to accompany all friends, expressing concern that the scandal used to shake Korea, causing former President Park Geun-hye
In this scandal, Ms. Park Geun-hye was determined to collide with her close friend Choi Soon -il to receive tens of millions of dollars from large corporations such as Samsung and Lotte, in order to help Choi family and funding for funds.
On July 5, arguing once again broke out around the first lady Kim, when a acquaintance of her was discovered as a member of President Yoon's accompanying delegation at the NATO summit last week in
According to local media, a Shin woman went to Spain 5 days before the president and returned home on the presidential plane with him, accompanied and reporters.
President Yoon Suk-yeol and the first lady Kim Keon-hee at Madrid airport on June 30.
The Korean President's office later explained that in Spain, Shin stayed in the same hotel with the President and his wife to support the first lady Kim to complete the work in her schedule.
The office explained that because she was an old friend, Shin understood the presidential habits.
First Lady, who does not understand the severity of contacting acquaintances and let them go to official events, can become a national issue, Woo Sang-ho, the committee leader.
It was completely inappropriate, Yu Yong-wha, a professor at Hankuk University of Foreign Languages, Korea, commented.