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Special Counsel Executes Raids on Kim Keon Hee’s Residence, Business and Allies’ Sites

Min Joong-ki’s office carried out coordinated search and seizures across Kim’s residence, her former company office, relatives’ homes, a lawmaker’s workplace, gathering evidence of luxury-briberies, election interference, stock-market schemes, infrastructure favors ahead of her August summons.

Media crew wait outside the home of former first lady Kim Keon Hee and former President Yoon Suk Yeol in southern Seoul on July 25, 2025, as a special counsel team attempts to carry out a search and seizure. (Yonhap)
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Overview

  • Investigators searched Kim’s southern Seoul apartment and the Covana Contents office with a warrant obtained for evidence collection ahead of her scheduled August 6 questioning.
  • Homes of Kim’s mother Choi Eun-soon and brother Kim Jin-woo were raided over allegations that their family firm ESI&D received fee exemptions and other preferential treatment on a Yangpyeong housing development.
  • The special counsel targeted Rep. Kim Sun-gyo’s National Assembly office amid claims he pressed to alter the Seoul-Yangpyeong expressway endpoint to benefit land owned by Kim’s family.
  • Prosecutors are probing suspected luxury gifts—a Chanel bag and a 60-million-won diamond necklace—allegedly funneled through shaman Jeon Seong-bae by Unification Church figures in exchange for political and development favors.
  • The intensified operations mark a new phase of Min’s multifaceted inquiry, which also covers two stock-price manipulation schemes and alleged meddling in PPP candidate nominations.