Military nurse denies seeing President during Sewol disaster

A military nurse who was working at Cheong Wa Dae when the Sewol ferry sank over two years ago said she did not see President Park Geun-hye on the day of the incident.

The nurse surnamed Cho is currently based in San Antonio, Texas, where she is on a training course. Her remarks were made in an interview Thursday with Korean news correspondents based in the U.S.

“The President didn’t receive any medical treatment on that day,” Cho said.

Her comment ruled out allegations raised by media outlets that the President — who allegedly often receives injections for beauty treatments — underwent another cosmetic procedure on the day of the disaster and that kept her in her residence during the critical seven hours after the start of the disaster. Cheong Wa Dae had earlier dismissed the allegations as groundless.

Military nurses came under scrutiny after Kim Sang-man, the President’s medical adviser and her former doctor at an anti-aging clinic, said they were in charge of giving intravenous shots to the President.