Things are getting worse and worse for the former President as he has already had to admit that his wife was taking bribe money and now this:

Prosecutors investigating an unfolding corruption probe implicating the former first family said Saturday that in 2007, then President Roh Moo-hyun allegedly called a businessman, who is currently indicted on charges of bribery, and demanded US$1 million from him.

Park Yeon-cha, a businessman arrested on charges of giving billions of won in bribe to political heavyweights, has given the testimony implicating the former president and several Roh family members, state prosecutors said.

An investigation into Park — who allegedly handed out billions of won to political heavyweights, including Roh’s confidants and former government officials in exchange for various favors — shifted to the Roh family after the former president confessed on his Web site that his wife, Kwon Yang-sook, had accepted money from Park to repay a debt.

Park, who runs a shoe manufacturer near Roh’s hometown and is one of the former president’s financial supporters, said he delivered the money to Jung Sang-moon, then a Roh aide at the presidential office, through a friend.

Park was reported to have hurriedly converted some 1 billion won into $1 million after he received the phone call. He later placed the cash in a suitcase and delivered it to Jung, according to investigators.

Roh’s admission earlier this week has cast a shadow on the legacy of the former president, who took office in 2003 pledging clean politics.  [Yonhap]

The evidence of corruption has become so overwhelming that Roh has finally decided to come out and admit to the bribery charges:

“I want to make public something in advance,” Roh wrote. “Right now, Chung Sang-moon, former Blue House secretary, is being questioned on charges of receiving money from Park. I am concerned that Chung might have testified that he had actually done so. The accusation should be directed toward us, not Chung.

“My home made the request, received money and used it,” the former president confessed. “We have done so because we still had outstanding debts.”

Roh wrote that he will cooperate with the prosecution’s investigation and testify concerning details. “I will face legal action in accordance with the case. I apologize again,” he wrote.

Following Roh’s statement, prosecutors began mulling when to summon the former president. Because of the statement, “it becomes inevitable for us to question him directly,” said a source at the Supreme Public Prosecutors’ Office. [Joongang Ilbo]

This is just the tip of the iceberg as there is sure to be much more corruption underneath Roh if the corruption reached all the way to him.  This helps explain why the Korean left tried so hard before the election to do everything legally and illegally to destroy the current Korean President Lee Myung-bak who was overwhelming up against his leftist rival in the polls before the election.  Even after the election after a huge win by Lee, the Korean left went to extraordinary lengths with the bogus US beef nonsense to overthrow the President.

It is amazing the ruling government got the evidence they did considering how the Roh administration in its final days had the paper shredders running overtime to cover their tracks. I hope the Lee administration doesn’t stop with this investigation and actually expands it to include uncovering the full extent of the North Korean spy scandal that Roh Moo-hyun worked quickly to cover up as well when it broke since it reportedly reached all the way into the Blue House as well.

Make sure to check out One Free Korea who has much more about these corruption charges against his favorite Korean President.