New Zealand golf legend Dame Lydia Ko has been forced to publicly make a statement after being caught up a political stoush in South Korea.<\/p>\n
On social media Dame Lydia denied claims she had given private golf lessons to South Korea’s first lady, Kim Hea Kyung, on the same day that a fire in Seoul injured a number of people.<\/p>\n
As reported by Golf Week, The Korea JoongAng Daily said in a Facebook post on Monday, Joo Jin-woo of the People Power Party named Ko as the professional golfer who gave lessons to Kim, who is the wife of president Lee Jae Myung.<\/p>\n
“The contents of the article reported today are not true and have absolutely no relation to me,” Ko wrote on Instagram.<\/p>\n
“In particular, on the date mentioned in the article, I was attending an official event for a sponsor, and I have no connection whatsoever to the reported claims.<\/p>\n
“Going forward, if false information that has not been verified is circulated, or if articles, posts, or comments damage my reputation, I intend to take legal action as appropriate depending on the circumstances.”<\/p>\n
The Korea Times reported South Korea’s ruling party intends to file legal action against Joo.<\/p>\n
Ko, an LPGA Hall of Fame golfer, didn’t play in South Korea last week. She is scheduled to play in Malaysia this week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New Zealand golf legend Dame Lydia Ko has been forced to publicly make a statement after being caught…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":814924,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[5904,101,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-814923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-golf","tag-golf","tag-sports","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814923","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=814923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/814923\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/814924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=814923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=814923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=814923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}