S. Korean team arrives in Shanghai to investigate sex scandal

SHANGHAI, March 13 (Yonhap) -- A team of South Korean officials arrived in Shanghai on Sunday to investigate an alleged sex-for-influence scandal involving a Chinese woman and several South Korean diplomats. South Korean officials said the previous day that the team of officials from the Prime Minister's Office and foreign ministry plans to make the on-site investigation at the South Korean Consulate General in Shanghai from Monday for six days. At least four South Korean diplomats, including a former consul general, were found to have had relations with the 33-year-old Chinese woman, who allegedly exercised her influence over them to help Chinese people obtain South Korean visas quickly and easily. The diplomats were also reportedly accused of leaking information such as phone numbers of high-level South Korean officials to the Chinese woman. The revelations came from the South Korean husband of the Chinese woman, and photos of the woman posing affectionately with each of the diplomats have been carried in South Korean newspapers and on TV in recent days.