NEWS BRIEF

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The Cultural Heritage Administration will host a cultural program to thank frontline medical workers battling the coronavirus. The agency will invite 15 medical staffers of Seoul National University Hospital to a nighttime tour of Changgyeonggung Palace next Wednesday. The invitees will visit the palace’s buildings and greenhouse during the one and a half hour tour that begins at 6 p.m.
The Seoul Central District Prosecutors’ Office has assigned a complaint against Samsung Electronics Vice Chairman Lee Jae-yong to a department tasked with retrieving criminal proceeds. Recently, a news outlet raised suspicions that in 2008, Lee established a paper company in the tax haven Virgin Islands under another person’s name with an aim to open a bank account with UBS in Switzerland. Following the report, the Youth Justice Party filed a suit against the Samsung scion, claiming that the paper company was established as a channel for him to divert his father’s secret funds overseas.