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“I have 50 Bentleys in my house”, “My husband is a senior in a state-owned company”
The remarks of a woman who were arguing over parking issues in China are controversial.
Along with the veracity of the statements, calls are pouring in for a thorough investigation into how such a fortune could be amassed.
This is because there are still many people in China who believe that corruption of bureaucrats is possible.
Correspondent Lee Hae-in from Beijing will tell you.
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An underground parking lot for an apartment building in Shenzhen, China.
A woman shouting to get the car out of the parking area she paid for.
“It has been occupied without end for a month.”
When the other person refuses to say that it is a public space, he blocks the other car with his Bentley, and says he is okay because he has 50 Bentleys.
It is known that her husband, who was with her, was also a leader of a state-owned enterprise.
“Go get your keys. Get some Bentleys and block them here. I don’t have to use this Bentley for a month. We have 50 Bentleys at home.”
The video of this remark is rapidly spreading through social media and is causing a lot of controversy in China.
It is known that the Bentley car is worth at least 300 million won, and the apartment the woman lives in is also known for over 5 billion won.
As a result, there is a rush of calls to investigate how senior officials of state-owned enterprises can accumulate such wealth, and whether there are really Bentleys in their 50s.
Netizens who followed the woman also found out that the man next to the woman was a senior citizen of a state-owned company, and his annual salary was 70 million won (US$70,000).
The woman clarified that it was not true that she owned a Bentley in her 50s, and Shenzhen city officials said, “The two are lovers, and the Bentley car and apartment were originally owned by the woman.”
It would be common for the general public to laugh at people saying that they have 50 high-end cars that cost hundreds of millions of dollars.
However, it is pointed out that the moment you say you are a leader of a state-owned company, thinking that you can do it is itself revealing the level of corruption in the Chinese bureaucracy.
This is Lee Hae-in from MBC News in Beijing.
Video coverage: Farewell (Beijing) / Video editing: Kim Chang-gyu
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