09.11.2015 - KIC chief loses job over 2012 Twitter postings
Korea Investment Corporation (KIC) Chairman and CEO Ahn Hong-chul, the most highly paid public company head in Korea, resigned Friday morning over political comments he posted on social media. Ahn had a year left in his term, which ends in December 2016. He resigned for personal reasons, according to the KIC, the nation’s sovereign wealth fund. In 2012, while he was serving on Park Geun-hye’s presidential election campaign, Ahn made a Twitter post that accused the late President Roh Moo-hyun and then-presidential candidate Moon Jae-in of being pro-Pyongyang figures. That Twitter post and 9,739 more came up during a parliamentary audit of the KIC early last month...............................................Full Article: Source
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