Ranking presidential officials own assets 10 times greater than national average: civic group

SEOUL, March 14 (Yonhap) -- The average assets owned by high-ranking officials at the office of President Yoon Suk Yeol amount to 4.83 billion won (US$3.7 million), about 10 times greater than the national average, a civic group said Tuesday.

The Citizens' Coalition for Economic Justice disclosed the findings in a press conference after analyzing assets of 37 high-level presidential officials.

The average amount is 10.5 times greater than the country's average assets per household that stand at 460 million won, the civic group noted.

Lee Won-mo, a presidential secretary for personnel affairs, declared the biggest assets of 44.6 billion won, followed by senior presidential secretary for press affairs Kim Eun-hye who reported 25.47 billion won and Kim Dong-jo, a secretary for public messages, with 12.42 billion won.