Opposition leader's key aide in court

Kim Yong, a former deputy head of the main opposition Democratic Party's think tank and a close aide to the party's leader, Lee Jae-myung, appears at the Seoul Central District Court in southern Seoul on Aug. 17, 2023, to attend a hearing over a bribery scandal linked to a development project launched when Lee was the mayor of Seongnam, south of Seoul. Kim was released on bail from a detention center on May 4. (Yonhap)

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