Court Orders Disclosure of President Yoon's Movie Tickets, Meal Expenses, and Special Activity Costs

The civic group Korea Taxpayers Federation filed a lawsuit demanding the disclosure of President Yoon Seok-yeol's movie viewing expenses, meal costs, and the presidential office's special activity expenses, and partially won the case.

President Yoon Suk-yeol [Photo by Yonhap News]

The Seoul Administrative Court, Administrative Division 11 (Presiding Judge Kang Woo-chan), on the 1st, ruled partially in favor of the Korea Taxpayers Federation in the lawsuit filed against the Chief of the Presidential Secretariat seeking cancellation of the information disclosure decision.

The court accepted the federation's claim that the expenses incurred when President Yoon and his wife Kim Geon-hee watched the movie "Broker" at a theater in Seoul on June 12 last year, as well as the details of the dinner expenses reportedly amounting to 4.5 million won spent by President Yoon at a Korean restaurant in Gangnam, Seoul, on May 13 last year, should be disclosed.

Additionally, the court judged that some of the special activity expenses of the presidential office spent after the launch of the Yoon Seok-yeol administration should also be disclosed. However, the court dismissed the request to disclose the details of the presidential office's business promotion expenses incurred after President Yoon's inauguration, stating that they have "already been disclosed."

Previously, the Taxpayers Federation requested the disclosure of such expenditure details through an information disclosure request, but the presidential office refused. Subsequently, the federation filed an administrative appeal with the Presidential Secretariat Administrative Appeals Committee, but after it was dismissed in November last year on the grounds that it could cause security issues, they filed a lawsuit.

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