{
  "id": 2059126,
  "title": "Joint Team Questions Ex-NEC Official in Favoritism Investigation",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/20/joint-team-questions-ex-nec-official-in-favoritism-investigation",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-08-20T02:35:15.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KBS World Radio",
    "slug": "kbs-world-radio",
    "url": "https://world.kbs.co.kr/service/news_view.htm?lang=e&Seq_Code=203694"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "[Politics] : A joint prosecution-police team is interrogating a former official whom it suspects benefited from favoritism when winning contract work from the state election watchdog. The joint team said Thursday that investigators had begun questioning the former National Election Commission(NEC) official, whose ... [more...]",
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}