Lee urges thorough probe of sex bribes

SEOUL - South Korea's president called Monday for a thorough probe into claims by a businessman that he had offered dozens of state prosecutors cash and sex with prostitutes in return for favors.

Lee Myung-bak said the service should regain public trust by changing its "internal culture," according to the presidential office.

In a program aired by MBC television last week, the construction company chief in the southern port of Busan claimed he had bribed about 100 prosecutors over two decades starting in 1984.