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Former Dogapyeong Pension Fire Traffic Accident Presidential Office Administrator

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Yesterday, there was a contact accident in Gangnam, Seoul, and the driver left the car and ran away.

He appears to be a famous lawyer who was an administrator in the presidential office until last year.

Overnight, house fires broke out in Gapyeong, Gyeonggi Province, and Nam-gu, Busan.

This is Reporter Byun Yoon-jae from Incident Accident.

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Yesterday during the day, a Porsche and a Mercedes vehicle collided in an alley in Gangnam-gu, Seoul.

No one was injured in a contact accident while trying to change lanes.

However, Mr Choi, a lawyer who drove a Porsche, ran away from the scene immediately after the accident, leaving only the vehicle behind.

It was confirmed that Attorney Choi had been active in Yoon Seok-yeol’s government transition committee and worked as an administrator in the presidential office until last year.

Mr Choi is a popular lawyer who has appeared on a number of broadcast programmes, and it was found that he had appeared on a program on the morning of the accident.

A police official said Choi was out of touch and would investigate the details of the crash, including whether he was drunk at the time of the crash.

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At around 11:30 last night, a fire broke out in a pension building in Cheongpyeong-myeon, Gapyeong-gun, Gyeonggi-do.

Two long-term residents of the pension escaped safely, but the entire two-story building burned down.

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Before this, around 9 o’clock last night, a fire broke out in a clothes shop in Jochiwon-eup, Sejong City.

The fire burned clothing and accessories in the store, causing property damage estimated at 45 million earned by the fire department.

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At around 7:30 last night, a man in his 70s who lived in a house in Yongho-dong, Nam-gu, Busan caught fire and was evacuated.

The police and fire authorities are investigating the exact extent of the damage and the cause of the fire based on a man’s statement that the fire started on the roof of a warehouse next to a house that was burnt down.

This is MBC News Byun Yoon-jae.