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Scandal, gaffes mar ex-UN chief's return to Korea

Brother tangled in graft case, while he is seen as being out of touch

Published Tue, Jan 24, 2017 · 09:50 PM

Seoul

IT has been an inauspicious return to crisis-plagued South Korea for former UN chief Ban Ki-moon, once the odds-on favourite to be the next president, who has been ensnared in a family corruption scandal and struggled with a sceptical press.

Mr Ban, 72, has been unable to capitalise on his much-anticipated homecoming after a decade as secretary-general of the United Nations in New York.

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