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Ex-PPP Floor Leader Kweon Summoned as Suspect as Counsel Moves to Indict Kim Keon Hee

The move shifts the Unification Church inquiry deeper into party politics, alleged cash deliveries.

Former first lady Kim Keon Hee (Yonhap)
President Lee Jae Myung speaks to reporters aboard his flight from Tokyo to Washington before his pivotal summit with U.S. President Donald Trump on Aug. 24, 2025. (Yonhap)
Rep. Kweon Seong-dong (C) of the main opposition People Power Party (Yonhap)
This composite image shows file photos of former first lady Kim Keon Hee (L) and shaman Jeon Seong-bae. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

Overview

  • Special counsel Min Joong-ki’s team called Rep. Kweon Seong-dong for questioning this week, and he says he will appear Wednesday at 10 a.m. while asserting his innocence.
  • Kweon is suspected of receiving 100 million won in illegal political funds from a former Unification Church official between 2021 and 2024, with a separate allegation of cash delivered in a shopping bag by church leader Han Hak-ja.
  • Investigators are probing claims that a church official and a shaman close to Kim recruited large numbers of church members to back Kweon in the PPP leadership election in March 2023.
  • Raids were conducted on Kweon’s residence and offices last week, and an attempt to obtain the PPP membership list was blocked by party resistance.
  • The special counsel says it aims to indict former first lady Kim Keon Hee this week after multiple interrogations during her detention, drawing on testimony, seized luxury items and phone records tied to alleged Unification Church influence efforts.