Pyongyang, August 23 (KCNA) -- A watching group of the discharged persons of the Public Employees Trade Union of south Korea held a press conference in Seoul on August 19 exposing the scams committed by the mayor of Seoul.

Speakers disclosed at the press conference that the mayor of Seoul wrested money amounting to 258 million won from tax under the plea of the fund for promoting business and spent it for giving parties for his partners from July 1, 2006 to June 30, 2008.

Parties were given at the places to which common people were denied access, they noted, adding that the mayor squandered more than 100 000 won at maximum per man.

They threatened to launch a campaign for strictly watching all the scams.