SEOUL—South Korea’s President Yoon Suk Yeol is facing an increasingly hostile North Korea. In Seoul, he has a very different problem: a $2,200 luxury Dior handbag.

       The handbag has been shaking Yoon’s political party since a video secretly filmed by a pastor showed first lady Kim Keon-hee accepting it. The controversy sparked by the video, which was first published in November by left-leaning news site Voice of Seoul, has heated up in recent days in South Korea’s highly polarized political atmosphere.

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